ployed in every case for the express purpose of disguising the
names. Generally the remark is applicable to all initials used in the
letters printed in the course of this work.

[45] This word, applied to him by his old master; Mr. Giles (_ante_, p.
33), was for a long time the epithet we called him by.

[46] His descriptions of this school, and of the case of Laura
Bridgeman, will be found in the _Notes_, and have therefore been, of
course, omitted here.

CHAPTER XX.

SECOND IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

1842.

Second Letter--International Copyright--Third
Letter--The Dinner at Boston--Worcester,
Springfield, and Hartford--Queer
Traveling--Levees at Hartford and New Haven--At
Wallingford--Serenades--Cornelius C.
Felton--Payment of Personal Expenses
declined--At New York--Irving and
Colden--Description of the Ball--Newspaper
Accounts--A Phase of Character--Opinion in
America--International Copyright--American
Authors in regard to it--Outcry against the
Nation's Guest--Declines to be silent on
Copyright--Speech at Dinner--Irving in the
Chair--Chairman's Breakdown--An Incident
afterwards in London--Results of Copyright
Speeches--A Bookseller's Demand for
Help--Suggestion for Copyright Memorial--Henry
Clay's Opinion--Life in New York--Distresses of
Popularity--Intentions for Future--Refusal of
Invitations--Going South and West--As to
Return--Dangers incident to
Steamers--Slavery--Ladies of America--Party
Conflicts--Non-arrival of Cunard
Steamer--Copyright Petition for Congress--No
Hope of the Caledonia--Substitute for
her--Anxiety as to Letters--Of Distinguished
Americans--Hotel Bills--Thoughts of the
Children--Acadia takes Caledonia's
Place--Letter to C. D. from Carlyle--Carlyle on
Copyright--Argument against Stealing--Rob Roy's
Plan worth bettering--C. D. as to Carlyle.

HIS second letter, radiant with the same kindly warmth that gave always
pre-eminent charm to his genius, was dated from the Carlton Hotel, New
York, on the 14th February, but its only allusion of any public interest
was to the beginning of his agitation of the question of international
copyright. He went to America with no express intention of starting
this question in any way, and certainly