John B. Gough
lectured in Bemis Hall last night and was entertained by Governor Clark. I told
Grandfather that I had an invitation to the lecture and he asked me who from. I
told him from Mr. Noah T. Clarke's brother. He did not make the least objection
and I was awfully glad, because he has asked me to the whole course. Wendell
Phillips and Horace Greeley, E. H. Chapin and John G. Saxe and Bayard Taylor
are expected. John B. Gough's lecture was fine. He can make an audience laugh
as much by wagging his coat tails as some men can by talking an hour.
SOURCE: Caroline Cowles Richards, Village Life in America, 1852-1872, p. 139-40
