There was the usual busy excite-
ment about the gentlemen
with big canes who directed
where every body [sic] was to go and
stay until finally we were
formed into a line - quaker
fashion, men and women
divided, and the Imperial
presence entered - the Sun
Press first with two pages
holding her train aloft &
the Countess Schenkenberg
presiding at the side of it -
Her Majesty spoke in turn
to [illegible] on every one of the
ladies and looked at me
well before she took charge
of the Fisk produce -
Then when the countess
[illegible] me - she was
markedly cordial - thought
she had known some of my
relations in Holland - was
very glad to see me, and hoped
she would see me very often -