We can hope that the Roosevelts enjoyed themselves in Natchez on New Year's Day.  They knew from their guide book that "the acquirements of taste and education perhaps are too much neglected" by inhabitants who thought only of business, but Natchez planters were also known for their hospitality, which "affords true enjoyment and comfort to the stranger and traveller.” John Bradbury, who arrived a few days after the Roosevelts, was less generous, asserting that there was "not, perhaps, in the world a more dissipated place."