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stone building, which cost some forty thousand dollars, in which I do not know exactly who or how many work (one or two familiar faces and more familiar names have turned up), a few shops and offices, an old farmhouse, and Mr. Spring s perfectly private residence, within twenty rods of the main building. The city of Perth Amboy is about as big as Concord, and Eagleswood is one and a quarter miles south west of it, on the Bay side. The central fact here is evidently Mr. [Theodore] Weld s school, recently established, around which various other things revolve. Saturday evening I went to the schoolroom, hall, or what not, to see the children and their teachers and patrons dance. Mr. Weld, a kind-looking man with a long white beard, danced with them, and Mr. [E. J.] Cut ler, his assistant (lately from Cambridge, who is acquainted with Sanborn), Mr. Spring, and oth ers. This Saturday evening dance is a regular thing, and it is thought something strange if you don t attend. They take it for granted that you want society !
Sunday forenoon I attended a sort of Quaker meeting at the same place (the Quaker aspect and spirit prevail here, Mrs. Spring says, "Does thee not?"), where it was expected that the Spirit would move me (I having been previ ously spoken to about it) ; and it, or something
