New York, Sunday, October 19th
1823 – [Some
much-needed horticultural housekeeping from Douglas for the next few days]
After getting to my lodging [where?] with all that I could
carry of my little gleanings, I waited on Dr. Hosack at 8 o’clock in the morning.
After breakfast [nice
cheeky free breakfast there, Mr Douglas!] I called on Mr Hogg,
arranged matters &c as to unpacking, went to dinner and to church in the
afternoon.
I can't be sure but I strongly suspect that this, St Paul's Chapel, Trinity Church, Wall Street, is the church
Douglas visited:
I visited this church on May 10th, 2001, while on my Churchill
Fellowship "Following David Douglas" and my journal records that
"The churchyard contains aged, weathered gravestones from the period and
there is a memorial plaque to Major General Richard Montgomery who died Dec
31st 1775 at Quebec, and whose remains were relocated to Saint Paul's Chapel on
8 July 1818, 5 years before Douglas's visit. So there is a high probability
that he was there and saw this. This may actually be the first tangible connection
- looking at something Douglas looked at."
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