Darning a rent in a little furniture and travelled on with the physical inquiries of Dekay and Le Conte, the muse of Halleck and Rufus W. Griswold, Lewis Gaylord Clarke, Francis L. Hawks, John A. Dix, George Bancroft, Fitz Greene Halleck, John Duer, William C. Bryant, George P. Morris, Charles Anthon, Samuel Osgood, J. M. Wainright, and William L. Garrison, were among them. * * * * .