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I am only immensely disgusted but not yet indignant. I Stayed for a week with the Wadsworths, Young Miss W. is very handsome but not I thought so pleasing as the daughter Lizzy. My acquaintance John van Buren immediately came to me [on arrival in Albany] (expressed great regret that he was obliged to set off immediately for New York but he commended me to his brother in law Mr. Vanderpoel and made me promise to go to his father's on Monday.

I am going to plunge out of the region of posts and conveyances - If you have any maps that can at all give you an idea of my progress... I return to Toronto tomorrow, then cross by Lake Simcoe to [Pentaquishire?] where our canoe life begins. You are aware that though this may not be speedy, it is an eminently safe mode of conveyance. I liked my 4 days at Quebec extremely & increasingly. It is quite a place to give one the marathon & Jones feeling of Johnson & the effect on me one brilliant afternoon as I sat reading very well written accounts of Wolfe's death under the retired shade in a public garden, just opposite the pillar raised to commemorate him, the band of the guards playing at a little distance beyond... Then there was a full parade of the Guards for Sir C. Bagot,... to see those fine men... all brough over from the far Atlantic, marching under the banners inscribed with the victories of Spain, Waterloo, & upon the ramparts of Quebec beneath which with the loss of 45 men we transferred the dominion of a continent. The Patterson's & all other timber merchants bewail themselves over Sir Robert's tariff.

I need not tell you that the idea of you all was very present with me yesterday both at the sacred table, & in the eve[nin]g over Miss Pulman's(?) turkey & mince pie, & afterwards at a little childs ball at Mary Otis's, where I was guilty of two Quadrilles, & wore for the 1st time your peacock waistcoat, which produced a great effect, tho' for the most part American ladies would scruple in observing upon any such article of attire. It even struck the dismal eyes of Prescott. I have seen a good deal of him since I wrote, & I do not think I deceive myself in the very high place I assign to him in every mode of attractiveness. I think I never knew such an union of simplicity, sense, gaiety & feeling. I cannot help grudging what I feel to be one drawback; he is, according to the prevailing mode of this place, an Unitarian, which has led to some little talk between us on the subject. One gets however to look upon them here, as almost orthodox, as there is now rather in vogue a new faith called Transcendentalism, of which Mr. Emerson is the head: he gives lectures which are being much attended, but which by the accounts seem made up of gibberish & blasphemy: it seems to me that I mentioned him to you before. They tell of his going one night with a lady disciple to see Mdelle Esler (whom by the way I did not happen to go to see at my first arrival, as I see recorded in the English papers,) at one twirlig more than usual licence, the fair exclaimed "that is poetry. "There came a still bolder bound "that is religion" rejoined Mr. Emerson.