CHAPTER XV

TO THE PRESENT DAY

Shortly after our return to Washington we received an invitation to a

party at the house of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Richardson, the former

Secretary of the Treasury in Grant's cabinet. In my busy life I have

never seemed inclined to devote much time to the shifts and vagaries of

fashionable attire. Although as a woman I cannot say that I have been

wholly averse to array myself in attractive garments, they were always

matters of secondary consideration with me and have yet to cause me a

sleepless night. My indifference now confronted me, however, with the

query as to what I should wear upon this particular occasion, and I was

compelled, as merchants say, "to take account of stock," especially as

my invitation reached me at too late a day to have a new gown made.

Although while living in Frederick I did pretty much as I pleased in

regard to dress, I realized that in Washington, willing or unwilling, I

might be compelled to do, to a certain extent, what other people

pleased; but such demands have their reasonable limits, and I therefore

determined to ignore the dictates of fashionable sentiment and practice

a little originality on my own account. I accordingly decided to wear a

handsome and elaborate dress of a fashion of at least a generation

before--a light, blue silk with its many flounces embroidered in straw

in imitation of sheaves of wheat. In former years I had worn with this

gown black velvet gloves which were laced at the side--a Parisian fancy

of the day, a pattern of which had been sent me by Mrs. Schuyler

Hamilton. These also I concluded to wear with the antiquated dress; and

thus arrayed I attended the party and had a thoroughly good time,

supposing, as a matter of course, that the incident was closed. The _New

York Graphic_, however, seemed to think otherwise and dragged me into

its columns in an article which was subsequently copied into other

papers. Although at first I felt somewhat chagrined, upon further

consideration I was inclined to be pleased, at least with that part of

the narrative that made a passing allusion to my attire. This is what

the _Graphic_ said:--

Among the ladies frequently seen in society this winter is

Mrs. Marian Campbell Gouverneur, daughter of the late James

Campbell of New York and the wife of Samuel L. Gouverneur,

the only surviving grandson of ex-President James Monroe.

Mrs. Gouverneur is an elegant lady of pleasing manners,

sparkling vivacity and possesses a fund of humor and a mind

stored with a variety of charming information. She has

traveled a great deal and seen much of the fashionable

world. Mr. Gouverneur's mother was married in the White

House and--think of it!--on a Spread Eagle--that is to say,

on the carpet of which that very elastic bird made the

central figure. Suppose Miss Nellie Grant, of whose

engagement rumor outside of Washington talks so loud and

this city appears to know nothing, should take it into her

head to be married on a Spread Eagle, would not the other

Eagle, the public, stretch its wings and utter a prolonged

shriek? Now I ask you candidly, have we retrograded in

matters of taste or become less loyal to the true spirit of

our Republican institutions? Mrs. Gouverneur has the most

wonderful collection of American and Asiatic antiques. She

favors antique styles, even in matters of the toilet, and at

a party last week had her dress looped with the ornaments

which formed part of Mr. Monroe's court dress when Minister

to France. She also wore black velvet mittens of that date.

While my sister, Mrs. Eames, was residing in Paris with her son and

daughter, her home on the corner of H and Fourteenth Streets was

occupied by Ward Hunt and his wife of Utica. Judge Hunt had recently

been appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court, and I immediately renewed

my associations of former days with his family. Next door to the Hunts

lived Mr. and Mrs. Titian J. Coffey, the former of whom had accompanied

ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania upon his mission to Russia;

and the adjoining residence, the old "Hill house," was the home of Mr.

and Mrs. James C. Kennedy, the latter of whom was Miss Julia Rathbone of

Albany. Their hospitality was lavish until the death of Mr. Kennedy,

when his widow returned to Albany where a few years later she married

Bishop Thomas Alfred Starkey of New Jersey. Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver,

wife of the present efficient Assistant Secretary of War, is her niece.

After Mrs. Kennedy left Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elkin Neil of

Columbus, Ohio, with their daughter, Mrs. William Wilberforce Williams,

lived in the "Hill house." They were people of large means and

entertained on an extensive scale. Mrs. Neil belonged to the Sullivant

family of Ohio whose women were remarkable for their beauty. The wife of

William Dennison, one of the District Commissioners, was Mr. Neil's

sister and her daughter, Miss Jenny Dennison, was one of the belles of

the Hayes administration. There were so many representatives of the

"Buckeye State" at that time in Washington that someone facetiously

spoke of the city as the "United States of Ohio." Mr. and Mrs. Matthew

W. Galt, parents of Mrs. Reginald Fendall, lived in the next house in

the H Street block, while adjoining them resided Colonel and Mrs. James

G. Berret. I knew Colonel Berret very well. Nature had been very lavish

in her gifts to him, as he was the fortunate possessor of intelligence,

sagacity and fine personal appearance. It was his frequent boast,

however, that through force of circumstances he had received but "three

months' schooling," but he took advantage of his subsequent

opportunities and became an efficient mayor and postmaster of the City

of Washington, while a prince might well have envied him his dignified

and imposing address. He sold his attractive home to Justice William

Strong of the U.S. Supreme Court, who with his family resided in it for

many years and then moved into a house on I Street, near Fifteenth

Street, which in late years has been remodeled and is now the spacious

residence of Mr. Charles Henry Butler.

Directly across the street and in the middle of the block, between

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets, lived Colonel and Mrs. John F. Lee.

This is a house which I link with many pleasing associations. Mrs. Lee,

whom I knew as Ellen Ann Hill, was a member of one of Washington's

oldest families and with her husband had a country home in Prince George

County in Maryland. She was a deeply religious woman and one of the

saints upon earth. She gave me _carte blanche_ to drop in for an

informal supper on Sunday evenings--a privilege of which I occasionally

availed myself. Colonel Lee was a Virginian by birth and a graduate of

West Point, but at the beginning of the Civil War resigned his

commission. His brother, Samuel Phillips Lee, however, who was then a

Commander in the Navy, remained in the service and eventually became a

Rear Admiral. Although differing so widely in their political views, the

two brothers were respected and beloved by their associates, and never

allowed their opinions upon matters of state to interfere with their

fraternal affection. The only daughter of Colonel Lee, Mrs. Henry

Harrison, usually spends her winters in Washington.

Next door to the Lees on the east lived Senator and Mrs. Zachariah

Chandler, the parents of Mrs. Eugene Hale; while still further down the

street was the residence of Doctor William P. Johnston, a favorite

physician of long standing and father of Mr. James M. Johnston and Miss

Mary B. Johnston, the latter of whom is President of the Society of Old

Washingtonians of which I enjoy the honor of being a member. It is at

her home on Rhode Island Avenue that the privileged few who are members

of this exclusive organization meet once each month to listen to papers

read on topics relating to earlier Washington and to discuss persons and

events connected with its history. The insignia of the society is an

orange ribbon bearing the words inscribed in black: "Should auld

acquaintance be forgot?" A prominent member of this organization is Mrs.

Anna Harris Eastman, widow of Commander Thomas Henderson Eastman,

U.S.N., and daughter of the beloved physician, the late Medical Director

Charles Duval Maxwell, U.S.N.

In the opinion of many old Washingtonians no history of the District of

Columbia would be complete without some mention of The Highlands, the

home of the Nourse family. In years gone by I remember that this

ivy-covered stone house was deemed inaccessible, as it was reached only

by private conveyance or stage coach. The first time I crossed its

threshold I could have readily imagined myself living in the colonial

period, as the furniture was entirely of that time. When I first knew

Mrs. Nourse, who was Miss Rebecca Morris of Philadelphia, the widow of

Charles Josephus Nourse, she was advanced in life, but notwithstanding

the infirmities of age, she had just acquired the art of china painting,

and was filling orders the proceeds of which she gave in aid of St.

Alban's which was then a country parish. I frequently passed a day at

this ancestral home, and I especially recall seeing a wonderful

Elizabethan clock in the hallway which I am told is still, in defiance

of time, striking the hours in the home of a descendant. Near The

Highlands is Rosedale, occupied for many years by the descendants of

General Uriah Forrest, who built it subsequent to 1782. He was the

intimate friend of General Washington, and its present occupant, Mrs.

Louisa Key Norton, daughter of John Green and widow of John Hatley

Norton of Richmond, is my authority for the statement that one day after

dining with her grandfather, General Forrest, Washington walked out upon

the portico and, lost in admiration of the beautiful view, exclaimed:

"There is the site of the Federal City." Mrs. Norton's sister, Miss

Alice Green, married Prince Angelo de Yturbide, and it was their son,

Prince Augustine de Yturbide, who was adopted by the Emperor Maximilian.

One of the pleasing local features connected with the Grant

administration, which at the time made no special impression upon me,

was the fact that there were then but few, if any, social cliques in

Washington, and that society-going people constituted practically one

large family. A stranger coming to the Capital at that time and properly

introduced was much more cordially received than now. Such, for example,

was the condition of affairs when Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Jeffrey came to

Washington to spend a winter. They rented the old Pleasanton house on

Twenty-first Street below F Street and entertained with true Southern

hospitality. The Jeffrey family was of Scotch extraction and Mrs.

Jeffrey was Miss Rosa Vertner of Kentucky, where she was favorably known

as a poetess. The first wife of Alexander Jeffrey was Miss Delia W.

Granger, a sister of my old and valued friend, Mrs. Sanders Irving. As

soon as they were settled in their home, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey gave a

large evening entertainment which Mr. Gouverneur and I attended. We much

enjoyed meeting there a number of Kentuckians temporarily residing in

Washington--among others, Mrs. John Key of Georgetown and her sister,

Mrs. Hamilton Smith; Mrs. William E. Dudley; and Wickliffe Preston and

his sister, a decided blonde who wore a becoming green silk gown. Madame

Le Vert and her daughter, Octavia Walton Le Vert, were also there and

it is with genuine pleasure I recall the unusual vivacity of the former.

This gifted woman was a pronounced belle from Alabama and had passed

much of her life in Italy, where she had much association with the

Brownings. During her absence abroad the ravages of our Civil War made

serious inroads upon her financial circumstances, and when she visited

Washington at the period of which I am speaking she gave a series of

lectures upon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Browning in Willard's Hall on F

Street. They received the endorsement of fashionable society and, at the

conclusion of her last appearance, Albert Pike, the later apostle of

Freemasonry, offered as an additional attraction a short discourse upon

his favorite theme. Madame Le Vert's maiden name was Octavia Walton, and

she was the granddaughter of George Walton, one of the Signers from

Georgia, and the daughter of George Walton, the Territorial Governor of

Florida. In 1836 she married Dr. Henry S. Le Vert, son of the

fleet-surgeon of the Count de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Va. In 1858 her

"Souvenirs of Travel" appeared, and later she wrote "Souvenirs of

Distinguished People" and "Souvenirs of the War," but, for personal

reasons, neither of the two was ever published.

My first acquaintance with George Bancroft, the historian, dates back to

the year 1845, when he came from New England to deliver a course of

lectures and was the guest of my father in New York. One of the evenings

he spent with us stands out in bold relief. He was a man of musical

tastes, and Justine Bibby Onderdonk, a friend of mine and a daughter of

Gouverneur S. Bibby, who only a few days before had made a runaway match

with Henry M. Onderdonk, the son of Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk of New

York, happened to be our guest at the same time. Her musical ability was

of the highest order and she delighted Mr. Bancroft by singing some of

his favorite selections. Later, when he was Secretary of the Navy

during the Polk administration, I saw Mr. Bancroft very frequently. I

am not aware whether it is generally known that he began his political

life in Massachusetts as a Whig. When I first knew him, however, he was

a Democrat and the change in his political creed placed him in an

unfavorable light in his State, most of whose citizens were well nigh as

intolerant of Democrats as their ancestors had been of witches in early

colonial days.

Upon my return to Washington I soon renewed my acquaintance with Mr. and

Mrs. Bancroft, and the entertainments I attended in their home on H

Street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Streets, revived pleasant

recollections of Mrs. Clement C. Hill, whose house they purchased and of

whose social leadership I have already spoken. Mr. Bancroft at this time

was well advanced in years, and in referring to his age I have often

heard him say: "I came in with the century." In spite of the fact,

however, that he had exceeded the years usually allotted to man, he

could be seen nearly every day in the saddle with Herrman Bratz, his

devoted German attendant, riding at a respectful distance in the rear. I

may add, by the way, that a few doors from the Bancrofts lived Dr.

George Clymer of the Navy with his wife and venerable mother-in-law, the

latter of whom was the widow of Commodore William B. Shubrick, U.S.N.

Colonel Alexander Bliss, Mrs. Bancroft's son and familiarly known to

Washingtonians as "Sandy" Bliss, lived just around the corner from his

mother's. His wife was the daughter of William T. Albert, of Baltimore,

but when I knew him best he was a widower. A few doors from Colonel

Bliss lived Senator Matthew H. Carpenter, a political power of the first

magnitude during President Grant's second presidential term, whose

daughter Lilian was a reigning belle. Equestrian exercise was not then

quite so popular in Washington as later, but it had its devotees, among

whom was Colonel Joseph C. Audenreid, U.S.A., an unusually handsome man

with a decidedly military bearing. He was generally accompanied by his

daughter Florence, then a child, and was often to be seen riding out

Fourteenth Street towards the Soldiers' Home, which was then the

fashionable drive.

John L. Cadwalader, a cousin of Mr. Gouverneur and now one of the most

prominent members of the New York bar, was Assistant Secretary of State

under Hamilton Fish during the Grant _régime_. He was a bachelor and was

accompanied to Washington by his two sisters, both of whom lived with

him in a fine residence on the corner of L Street and Connecticut

Avenue, which has since been torn down to make way for a large apartment

house. It was while the Cadwaladers were occupying this residence that I

first made the acquaintance of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell. Miss Mary

Cadwalader brought him to see us in our Corcoran Street home and during

the visit announced her engagement to him. He was then the highly

eminent physician alone, as he had not yet entered the arena of fiction

and poetry in which he has since attained such wide-spread distinction.

It gives me pleasure to add that he suggested to me, while I was

visiting in Philadelphia many years later, that I should write these

reminiscences.

All of the large balls and parties of this date, including the

bachelors' germans, which I frequently attended, were given at Lewis G.

Marini's on the south side of E Street, near Ninth Street. Marini was an

Italian and the dancing master of the day. Twice a week he went to

Annapolis to teach the midshipmen, who, when subsequently ordered to

duty in Washington, became very acceptable beaux, as they danced the

same step that their master had taught his pupils here. The bachelors'

germans were organized among others by Robert F. Stockton, Hamilton

Fish, Jr., John Davis, and Hamilton Perkins; while soon thereafter

Seaton Munroe became one of its officers. I especially recall a german

given by the bachelors at Marini's, on the twenty-second of February,

1876, when Lady Thornton, wife of Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister

to the United States, received the guests. The decorations were

unusually elaborate, consisting chiefly of American flags draped along

the walls from floor to ceiling; while at one end of the room, in

compliment to the hostess of the evening, the stars and stripes made way

to two British flags. A small cannon and a miniature ship were placed

below the music gallery, while above them was a semicircle of cutlasses

and a _chevaux-de-frise_ of glistening spears behind which were the

musicians. In an old scrap book I find a brief notice of this

entertainment which mentions the belles of the ball, some of whom became

matrons of a later day in Washington and elsewhere. This is the

list:--Miss Zeilin, Miss Dunn, Miss Kilbourn, Miss Emory, Miss Campbell,

Miss Kernan, Miss Dennison, Miss Keating of Philadelphia, Miss

Patterson, Miss Jewell, Miss Badger, Miss Warfield, Madame Santa Anna,

Mrs. Gore Jones, Madame Mariscal, Madame Dardon, Mrs. Belknap, Mrs.

Robeson, Mrs. Frederick Grant and Miss Dodge ("Gail Hamilton").

In the old Stockton house, next door to the residence of William W.

Corcoran, lived Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Ward who probably entertained more

lavishly than any other family of that day. Mr. Ward was then in

Congress from New York. His wife possessed much grace of manner and a

subtle charm quite impossible to describe. I enjoyed her intimate

friendship and often availed myself of a standing invitation to take tea

with her. In her drawing-room one constantly met acceptable recruits

from social and political life, all of whom she charmed by her affable

conversation and unaffected bearing. Upon her return to New York Miss

Virginia Stuart, her daughter by a former marriage, married the Rev.

Alexander McKay-Smith, assistant rector at St. Thomas' Church. Soon

after his marriage he received a call to St. John's Church in

Washington, where he remained the beloved rector until in 1902 he was

elected Bishop-Coadjutor of Pennsylvania.

It was about this same period that I formed a friendship with Lieutenant

Commander and Mrs. Arent Schuyler Crowninshield. He was then Ordnance

Officer of the Washington Navy Yard and lived in the quaint old house

later assigned to the second line officer of that station. Mrs.

Crowninshield's sister, Elizabeth Hopkins Bradford, lived with her and I

attended her wedding there. She married Edmund Hamilton Smith of

Canandaigua, New York, a son of Judge James C. Smith of the Supreme

Court of that State, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. John

Vaughan Lewis of St. John's Church, Washington. This wedding made an

indelible impression upon my memory owing to an unfortunate circumstance

which attended it. The mother of the bride-elect and the latter's

youngest sister, Louise, were traveling in Europe and had arranged their

return passage in ample time, as they supposed, to be present at the

ceremony. The ship met with an accident off the coast of Newfoundland,

however, and during the delay the wedding took place. There was much

anxiety concerning the safety of the bride's mother and sister which

naturally cast an atmosphere of gloom over the marriage feast, but in a

few days the ship came into port and unalloyed happiness prevailed.

After Mr. Crowninshield's promotion to a Captaincy in the Navy he was

ordered to command the _Richmond_ in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and

there I repeatedly met him and his fascinating wife. He remained there,

however, for less than a year, when he was placed in command of the

ill-fated _Maine_, and about ten months before she was destroyed was

ordered to Washington as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation with the

rank, first of Commodore and then of Rear Admiral. He served as such

with marked efficiency during the Spanish-American War, and several

years later commanded the flagship of the European Squadron. He retired

in 1903 on his own application and died five years later, deeply

regretted by a large circle of official and personal friends. Mrs.

Crowninshield is so well and favorably known to the public as an

authoress that it would be impossible for me to add any leaves to the

laurels she now wears; but I cannot refrain from paying a tribute to her

remarkable loyalty as a friend and expressing my admiration for those

uncommon traits of character which, with her commanding presence, have

made her so deeply respected and so greatly admired.

The first loan-exhibition given in Washington that I now recall was near

the close of Grant's administration, and was for the benefit of the

Church of the Incarnation. It was in an old house on the corner of

Fifteenth and H Streets, since torn down to make way for the George

Washington University. As much interest was shown in the enterprise and

many of the old Washington families sent valuable relics, a large sum of

money was realized. Among the contributors were William W. Corcoran,

Miss Olive Risley Seward, Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, and Seth

Ledyard Phelps, the latter of whom was at the time one of the District

Commissioners and owned a large number of Chinese curios gathered by him

during his life in the East. I, too, was glad to aid so worthy a cause

and sent some of my most cherished possessions. Before the exhibition

was formally opened, I attended a private view of the collection given

in honor of William W. Corcoran and Horatio King. Of Mr. Corcoran I have

elsewhere spoken; with Mr. King I was also well acquainted. In 1839,

while a young man, he was appointed to a position in the Post Office

Department and eleven years later was connected with its foreign service

in which he originated and perfected postal arrangements of great

importance to the country. His promotion was rapid and he finally became

Postmaster General under President Buchanan, a position which he held

with credit both to the administration and himself. About 1873, when I

first knew Mr. and Mrs. King, they lived in a modest home at 707 H

Street where, every Saturday evening, many _littérateurs_ and prominent

men of state were accustomed to gather and discuss the important

literary and political problems of the day. John Pierpont read a poem at

the first of these receptions and Grace Greenwood rendered some choice

selections, while George William Curtis and other men of note

contributed their share to the success of other similar occasions. These

literary reunions are said to have been the first of their kind ever

held in Washington.

I was invited one evening in 1877 by Mrs. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren,

widow of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, U.S.N., who was then living at

the corner of L and Fourteenth Streets, to attend a meeting of the

Washington Historical Society held in her drawing-rooms. It was

Washington's birthday and James A. Garfield, then Senator from Ohio, was

the orator of the evening. In one portion of his remarks he seemed to go

out of his way to emphasize the statement that Mary Ball, Washington's

mother, was a very plain old woman. Why he considered that her lack of

prominent lineage necessarily added greater luster to the Father of His

Country, was not apparent to quite a number of his audience, for even

the numerous votaries of the Patron Saint of Erin, "the beautiful isle

of the sea," took honest pride in according him a gentle descent:--

St. Patrick was a gintleman,

He came from dacent people.

Mrs. Dahlgren was a woman of unusual intellectual ability. She was the

daughter of Samuel Finley Vinton of Ohio, who for many years represented

his district in Congress and was chairman of the Ways and Means

Committee. In 1879 she published a small volume entitled "Etiquette of

Social Life in Washington." She followed this book with another, whose

title I do not recall, in which she dwelt at length upon society in

Washington. It was not well received as her criticisms upon the wives of

Cabinet Officers and others were such as to invoke general disfavor and

arouse bitter resentment. Mrs. Dahlgren's ablest work, however, was the

life of her husband, which was published in 1882 in a volume of over six

hundred and fifty pages. She had a fine command of the English language

and excellent literary discrimination in the use of its words, as

appears everywhere in her writings and especially in the following

tribute to her husband in the preface of his Life:--

"Admiral Dahlgren was a man of science, of inventive genius, of

professional skill; but beyond all these, he was a _patriot_. While

climbing, at first with slow and toilsome but reliant steps, and, later

on, with swifter, surer progress, that summit to which his genius urged

him, he was often and again confronted by the clamor of discontent, the

jealousies of his profession, and the various forms of opposition his

rapid, upward course evoked; and until the present generation of actors

in the great drama in which he played so conspicuous part shall have

passed away, it will be difficult to gain an impartial opinion. Yet

Death having arrested his ultimate conceptions while yet midway in his

career, and set the final seal upon his actions, we are content to leave

the verdict of a 'last appeal' to his beloved country and the hearts of

a grateful people."

Two years later I attended another meeting of this Historical Society at

the residence of Henry Strong, who built and owned the house on K Street

now occupied by Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, and for a time resided there. It

was a brilliant assemblage and it deemed itself fortunate in having

Moncure D. Conway, the distinguished historical writer and essayist, as

the orator of the evening. He spoke upon the leaders of the Federal

party during the formative period of our national government, and soon

made it apparent that his sympathies were not with them. He was strongly

denunciatory of the Federalists, going so far even as to brand some of

them as traitors, and especially criticized Jay's Treaty with England in

1794 which was their pet creation. He spoke at some length of Oliver

Wolcott, one of the most prominent Federalists of that day, entirely

ignorant meanwhile of the fact that some members of the Tuckerman

family, his descendants, were in the audience. At this time Mr. Conway

was writing the life of Thomas Paine, which has since been published,

and the morning after his lecture on the Federal party he called upon me

to ascertain whether any unpublished information relating to Paine,

which might aid him in his projected biography of the latter, was to be

found in the private papers of James Monroe which were in my possession.

During our conversation I ventured to remark to Mr. Conway that possibly

he was not aware that the previous evening certain descendants of Oliver

Wolcott were in his audience. He responded that he had no desire to give

offense but that unfortunately he could not adapt history to suit the

views of the descendants of early statesmen.

To use a terse expression of Hamlet, I have often heard that Paine was

one of the unfortunates who were not treated by our government

"according to their deserts." It is now conceded by students of our

national history that no man rendered more effective service to the

American Revolution than "Tom" Paine. His devotion to the cause and his

conspicuous sacrifices in its behalf were repeatedly acknowledged by

Washington, Franklin and all the lesser lights of the day. After

independence had been secured, still imbued with the spirit of liberty,

his pen and his presence were not wanting when required in behalf of

the liberties of the French people. He was imprisoned with hundreds of

others in the Luxembourg, where he languished for nearly eleven months

in daily expectation of being hurried to the guillotine. Following the

fall of Robespierre he was liberated through the kindly offices of James

Monroe, who had succeeded Gouverneur Morris as our Minister to France,

and was at once crowned with honors by the government in whose behalf he

had suffered. During the term of his imprisonment, it was his belief

that a single word from Washington would effect his release, and he had

a right to expect it, but he waited in vain. He was wholly unconscious,

meanwhile, that the mind of Washington had been poisoned against him by

one high in public counsels, and while still in ignorance of this fact

addressed him the well-known denunciatory letter which evoked such

wide-spread criticism. Washington, however, was not to blame, for he had

been deceived in the house of his friends; but of this Paine was

entirely ignorant. Delaware Davis, a son of Colonel Samuel B. Davis of

Delaware who rendered such distinguished service during the War of 1812,

told me a few years ago that his father was present at a dinner where

Paine was asked what he thought of Washington. Doubtless in a spirit of

acrimony he uttered the following lines:

Take from the rock the rough and rudest stone,

It needs no sculptor, it is Washington;

But if you chisel, let the strokes be rude,

And on his bosom write ingratitude.

There is probably no period of our national history when party rivalries

were so intense and the expression of political animosities were more

bitter than they were a century ago between the disciples of Jefferson

and Hamilton. Epithets in popular discourse were openly hurled at

political antagonists that decent men would not tolerate to-day, and the

public press gave expression to charges and insinuations against

honorable partisans such as none but the very yellowest and most

debauched journals would now deem it expedient to print. As a single

illustration, I have in my possession what is called "An infallible

remedy to make a true Federalist." It is without date and was given to

me by a descendant of Thomas Jefferson who knew nothing of its origin

except that it was a Boston production. It speaks for itself, and is as

follows:--

Take the head of an old hypocrite, one ounce of Nero's

conspiracy, two ounces of the hatred of truth, five scruples

of liars' tongues, twenty-five drops of the spirit of Oliver

Cromwell, fifteen drops of the spirit of contentment. Put

them in the mortar of self-righteousness and pound them with

the pestle of malice and sift them through the skin of a

Doctor of Divinity and put the compound into the vessel of

rebellion and steep it over the fire of Sedition twenty-four

hours, and then strain it in the rag of high treason. After

which put it in the bottle of British influence and cork it

with the disposition of Toryism, and let it settle until the

general court rises, and it will then be fit for use. This

composition has never been known to fail, but if by reason

of robust constitution it should fail, add the anxiety of

the stamp act, and sweeten with a Provisional Army.

The above articles may be had of the following gentlemen who

are appointed wholesale venders of British Agents in

America.

F. TARGET.

The last days of the Grant administration were filled with forebodings

and excitement. I shall always remember, when the news reached

Washington that Rutherford B. Hayes had been nominated by the Republican

party, the eager inquiries: "Who is Hayes?" It was then I heard for the

first time an expression which constantly occurs nowadays--"A dark

horse." Samuel J. Tilden, as is well known, was the standard bearer of

the Democracy. The fight was long and bitter, as almost up to the day of

the inauguration the question as to which candidate was successful was a

matter of doubt. The Electoral Commission, the compromise agreed upon by

both parties, was composed of the same number of Republicans and

Democrats with Justice Joseph P. Bradley of the Supreme Court as the

fifteenth member, chosen on account of his neutral position. It decided

that the Republican nominee was entitled to the electoral votes of

Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina, and the Electoral College

accordingly awarded the Presidency to Mr. Hayes by a vote of 186 to 185.

The Tilden campaign was engineered by Manton Marble, an able man and the

editor of the New York _World_. I had known Mr. Tilden when he was a

great adherent of Martin Van Buren. He was a small, insignificant

looking man whose whole life was given up to politics. As I remember him

in general, he was expounding upon his favorite subject regardless of

"time and tide." His father had been affiliated with the celebrated

"Albany Regency," and the son, inheriting his views, became one of the

ablest as well as shrewdest political leaders that the Democratic party

in New York has ever known. As a lawyer his great ability was

universally recognized, and yet his last will was successfully

contested, although it had been drawn up by him with almost infinite

care and with the most scrupulous regard for details and engrossed with

his own hand.

I saw the Hayes inaugural-parade from a window on the corner of

Fifteenth Street and New York Avenue. All through the day there was a

suppressed feeling of uncertainty and excitement, but at the appointed

hour the President-elect drove to the Capitol in the usual manner and

took the oath of office. The procession which escorted him to the White

House was by no means so imposing as others I had seen, among them that

of eight years later at Cleveland's first inauguration, when General

Fitzhugh Lee rode at the head of the Virginia troops and received a

greater ovation than the new President himself. It was late in February

before it was definitely known what the final decision of the Electoral

Commission would be, and the uncertainty arising from this fact,

together with the prevailing political disquietude, doubtless had much

effect in limiting the size of the parade.

I soon made the acquaintance of President and Mrs. Hayes and was always

a welcome guest at the White House. The latter was of commanding

presence and endowed with great beauty, while she possessed moral and

intellectual traits that not only endeared her in time to the residents

of the Capital but also won for her the respect and admiration of the

people at large. She was also a woman of strong convictions and

exceptional strength of character, and rarely failed to make her

influence felt in behalf of what she believed to be right. Although, for

example, the attitude she assumed in regard to the use of wine at the

White House entertainments was a radical departure from precedent and

evoked the antagonism of many of her friends and admirers, she believed

herself to be right and successfully persevered in her course to the

end; so that William M. Evarts, Hayes's Secretary of State, kept pretty

close to the truth when he asserted years thereafter that "during the

Hayes administration water flowed at the White House like champagne!"

She was a woman of deeply religious experience and a devout member of

the Methodist Church. Washington society felt the influence of her

example, and during her residence at the White House the Sabbath was

more generally observed at the National Capital than during any other

administration I have known. As time passed and we became better

acquainted, my respect and admiration for her greatly increased. I

repeatedly spent the evening with her informally at the White House when

our intercourse was unhampered by red-tape, and it was then, of course,

that I saw her at her best. Her _rôle_ was by no means without its

embarrassments. She necessarily knew that many persons of prominence and

influence viewed with serious doubt the legality of her husband's title

to the Presidential chair and that there were those who even alluded to

him as "His Fraudulency"; but the world was none the wiser, so far as

she was concerned, and she pursued the "even tenor of her way," and by

the subtle influence of her character and conduct won both for her

husband and herself the admiration of many who, but for her, would

probably have remained their enemies.

In 1863 Stephen J. Field of California was appointed by President

Lincoln a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and made his residence in

one of the three dwelling-houses on Second Street facing the Capitol,

which is said to have been a gift from his brothers, David Dudley, the

eminent lawyer; Cyrus W., the father of the Atlantic cable; and the Rev.

Dr. Henry M., the eminent Presbyterian divine and versatile editor of

_The New York Evangelist_. Here the brothers met every February to

celebrate the birthday of David Dudley Field. For many years after the

destruction of the first Capitol by the British in the War of 1812, the

Field house and the two which adjoined it were used by Congress as the

seat of its deliberations. Henry Clay served within its walls as Speaker

for about ten years, and Mrs. Field took much pride in showing her

guests the mark on the wall where his desk stood. At one period before

its occupancy by Judge Field this residence was used as a boarding

house, and in its back parlor John C. Calhoun breathed his last. During

the Civil War it was used by the government with the two adjoining

houses as the "Old Capitol Prison"--but of this I have spoken in another

place. Justice Field was "a gentleman of the old school" and one of the

most courtly men in public life, while his wife was well known for her

tact, culture and exquisite taste. Their home was enriched with many

curiosities collected at home and abroad, and I especially recall a bust

of the young Emperor Augustus, an exact copy of the original in the

Vatican. Mrs. Field's sister, Miss Sarah Henderson Swearingen,

accompanied her to Washington and some years later was married from this

home to John Condit-Smith. My old friend, Dr. Charles W. Hoffman, who

for twenty years was the librarian of the U.S. Supreme Court, was a near

neighbor and friend of Judge and Mrs. Field. After a life well spent he

retired to the home of his birth in Frederick, Maryland, where he lived

for many years, surrounded by his well-loved books and art treasures. He

never married.

When I first knew Mr. and Mrs. James G. Blaine they were living on

Fifteenth Street between H and I Streets. Miss Abigail Dodge, "Gail

Hamilton," a cousin of Mrs. Blaine, resided with them and added greatly

to the charm of the establishment. The world in general as well as his

eulogists have done full justice to Mr. Blaine's amazing tact and charm

of manner; but I may be pardoned the conceit if I offer my own tribute

by referring to a graceful remark he made the first time I had the

pleasure of meeting him. I heard someone say: "Here comes Mr. Blaine,"

and as I turned and he was formally presented to me I saw before me a

distinguished looking middle-aged man of commanding presence, who, as he

raised his hat to greet me, remarked in a low and pleasant voice: "I bow

to the name!"

The social column so generally in vogue in all the large newspapers

throughout the country was introduced into Washington about 1870. Miss

Augustine Snead, who wrote under the _nom de plume_ of "Miss Grundy,"

was the first woman society reporter I ever knew. She represented

several newspapers, and she and her mother, Mrs. Fayette Snead, herself

a graceful writer under the pen name of "Fay," were seen at many

entertainments. Both of them were wide-awake and clever women. I happen

to have preserved an article which appeared in the society column of

_The Evening Star_, written by Miss Snead, which is largely made up of

puns upon the society men of the day, some of whom are now gray-haired

veterans and some, alas! are no longer here. She wrote:--

"Our society men are sighing for their rights and complain that whereas

it is only once in four years they have the privilege of being courted

and receiving special attention the social columns of the newspapers

should give them more space. We have detailed one of our corps for the

purpose with the following result. It (s)Eames to us that the officers

of the Marine Corps are Muse-ing on an exhibition of their Zeal in the

invention of a patent Payne-killer, in proof that they have not leaned

upon a broken Reed. Some one may call us Palmer (H)off of bad puns, but

we have not given A(u)lick amiss. No wonder the Marine Corps, in hourly

dread of annihilation, has its anxieties increased by the continuance of

the Alarm at the Navy Yard, the officers of that formidable little

vessel having proved through the season that it is well named, by each

striking eight _belles_ per hour."

"Eames" was my nephew, Charles Campbell Eames. "Muse" was General

William S. Muse, U.S.M.C., now residing on the Eastern Shore of

Maryland, who usually spends a portion of each year at the Capital.

"Zeal in" referred to Lieutenant William F. Zeilin, U.S.M.C., a son of

General Jacob Zeilin, U.S.M.C. "Payne" was Frederick H. Paine, formerly

in the Navy, who still makes Washington his home. "Reed" was General

George C. Reid, U.S.M.C., now residing in Washington. "(H)off" was

Captain William Bainbridge Hoff, U.S.N., who died a few years ago; and

"Palmer" was Lieutenant Aulick Palmer, formerly in the Marine Corps and

now U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia.

When I first knew the distinguished scientist, Professor Theodore E.

Hilgard, he and his wife were living on N Street, near Twelfth Street.

For many years he was Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and after an

interval of a number of years was succeeded by his nephew, Mr. Otto H.

Tittmann. The latter and his wife are now among the widely-known and

popular residents of Washington. The French Government in appreciation

of Professor Hilgard's scientific achievements presented to him a superb

vase which is now owned by Dr. Thomas N. Vincent.

About thirty years ago my daughters and I formed a friendship with

Senator and Mrs. James B. Beck of Kentucky and their daughter, the wife

of General Green Clay Goodloe of the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Beck was one

of the Democratic leaders in the Senate and was regarded as among the

ablest men of his party. He was proud of his Scotch blood and loyal in

his friendships. His wife was Miss Jane Washington Augusta Thornton,

whose grandfather, Colonel John Thornton of Rappahannock County,

Virginia, was a first cousin of General Washington. Both the Senator and

his wife have passed onward, but our affection still lives in General

and Mrs. Goodloe, who are among the best and truest friends I have ever

known.

Just before the close of the Hayes administration, Walter D. Davidge,

whose home for many years was on Sixth Street, built a large mansion on

the corner of H and Seventeenth Streets and upon its completion he and

Mrs. Davidge, who was Miss Anna Louisa Washington, gave a housewarming.

Champagne flowed freely upon this occasion and it is said that the

supper was one of the handsomest and most elaborate ever served in

Washington. The same winter my daughters attended a brilliant ball given

at Stewart Castle by its chatelaine, Mrs. William M. Stewart, whose

husband was one of the U.S. Senators from Nevada. She was the daughter

of Senator Henry S. Foote, who represented Mississippi in ante-bellum

days, and gave the ball in honor of several Virginia girls who were her

guests. She was assisted in the entertainment by her two elder

daughters, both of whom were married. Stewart Castle was well adapted

for such a social function as it was one of the few mansions in

Washington that had a spacious ballroom. This residence was quite

suburban, and the Hillyer house on Massachusetts Avenue which stood on a

high terrace was the only other dwelling in the immediate vicinity. I

remember that when the home of the British Embassy was in the course of

erection, the wisdom of the location was greatly questioned, owing to

its remoteness from the fashionable center of the city.

During the Arthur administration, Mr. Edward C. Halliday and his wife

came to the National Capital to spend a winter. I had known him many

years before when he visited the widow of General Alexander Macomb in

her home on the corner of I and Seventeenth Streets, where the Farragut

apartment house now stands. He was of a Scotch family which originally

settled in New York, and his father for some years was President of the

St. Andrews Society of that city. After residing several months in

Washington Mr. Halliday built several houses opposite the British

Embassy on N Street, the largest of which he reserved for his own

residence. It was here that Mr. and Mrs. Halliday entertained with such

true Scotch hospitality. Their Friday evenings were bright spots on the

social horizon, especially for the young people, as dancing was one of

their special features. Just before the close of her second social

season Mrs. Halliday gave a fancy-dress ball, which was a happy

inspiration, varying as it did the monotony of germans, receptions and

teas. On this occasion the minuet was danced by the younger guests

dressed in Louis XIV. costumes.

In the spring of 1880 the long and painful illness of my husband closed

in death. He had been handicapped by years of ill health, and, although

he had the intellectual power, the ability, the wings to spread, there

was, alas, no surrounding air to bear them up! The ambition was there

and the intense desire, but strength was lacking and he bore his

affliction with sublime fortitude. For a while after his departure I

felt akin to a ship lost at sea; my moorings were nowhere within sight.

I had leaned on him through so many years of married life, constantly

sustained by his high code of integrity and honor, that his death was

indeed a bereavement too terrible for words to express. I care to say no

more.

The summer of the same year, accompanied by my daughters, I sought the

quietude of the mountains of Virginia. Tarrying in the same house with

me was Mrs. John Griffith Worthington of Georgetown, D.C., with whom I

formed a lasting friendship. The Worthington family resided in the

District long before it became the seat of government and owned

extensive property. Even in extreme old age Mrs. Worthington was one of

the most truly beautiful women I have ever seen. She was Miss Elizabeth

Phillips of Dayton, Ohio, and a lineal descendant of President Jonathan

Dickinson of Princeton University. Her daughter Eliza, Mrs. William

Henry Philip, represented the same type of woman. John G. Worthington's

sister married Judge William Gaston, the eminent jurist of North

Carolina.

The administration of Garfield was of short duration. The tragedy which

brought to a speedy close his earthly career is too well known to be

dwelt upon at length. The mortal attack upon him in 1881 by the fanatic

Charles J. Guiteau in the old Pennsylvania railroad station on the

corner of Sixth and D Streets shocked the civilized world, and his long

and painful illness at Elberon was closely watched by a sympathizing

public until it closed in death. Dr. D. W. Bliss was the Garfield family

physician but the most eminent specialists of the country were called

into consultation. It is the first time within my memory that I ever

heard of the issue of official bulletins by physicians announcing the

condition of their patients. At the trial of Guiteau he was defended by

his brother-in-law, George M. Scoville, while Judge John K. Porter of

New York and Walter D. Davidge of the Washington bar were employed to

assist in the prosecution. This trial was of such absorbing interest

that men and women crowded to the City Hall, where admission was granted

only by ticket. No one could possibly have seen Guiteau without a

feeling akin to pity, as he displayed every indication of possessing an

unbalanced mind.

The administration of President Arthur proved a source of delight to

Washington society and afforded abundant demonstration, as in the cases

of Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Buchanan before him, that a

"Mistress of the White House" in the person of a wife is not an absolute

necessity. Mrs. John E. McElroy, the President's sister, spent much of

her time in Washington and presided with grace over the social functions

of the White House. The President himself was a gentleman of dignified

and imposing presence and of great social as well as political tact. He

instinctively seemed to know the proper thing to do and exactly when to

do it. I was deeply touched by his thoughtfulness when my second

daughter, Ruth Monroe, was married in December, 1882. Although we were

still in mourning and had no personal acquaintance with the President

nor other association at that time with the White House, General Arthur

on that occasion sent superb flowers to my home from the conservatory of

the Executive Mansion. I regarded the act as exceedingly gracious, but

it was in every way characteristic of the man. The circumstances under

which he succeeded to the Presidential chair were so painful and some of

his former political affiliations were so distasteful to many that the

early portion of his administration was attended with a certain degree

of embarrassment; yet, by sheer force of character, unquestioned ability

and magnificent tact he so effectively worked his way into the hearts of

the people that he left the Presidential chair as highly esteemed as any

of his predecessors and carried with him into retirement the applause of

the people irrespective of party affiliation.

I made the acquaintance of General and Mrs. Adolphus W. Greely soon

after his return from his Arctic expedition. Both he and Rear Admiral

Winfield Scott Schley, U.S.N., the rescued and the rescuer, were then

receiving the ovations of the public. During our early acquaintance the

Greelys purchased a delightful old-fashioned house on G Street, below

Pennsylvania Avenue, where they still reside surrounded by a charming

group of sons and daughters. General Greely is always an object of

interest wherever he goes and deservedly so, as scientific attainments,

distinguished bearing and engaging manners such as his can never fail to

win applause. Mrs. Greely, the bride of his youth and the companion of

his maturer years, wins all hearts and holds them.

It would be both unjust and ungrateful to make no mention of Mrs. Phoebe

Hearst, the mother of William R. Hearst of New York. She came to

Washington an entire stranger as the wife of the late Senator George

Hearst of California, but soon endeared herself to all old residents by

her personal magnetism, her social tact and her philanthropic acts.

Deeply in sympathy with the work of women, her benevolence in this

particular field was unbounded. Her entertainments were lavish and I was

often numbered among her guests. I especially recall an evening

reception given by her in honor of a company of authors attending a

congress in Washington. It was remarkable for the number of

distinguished men and women gathered from all parts of the country, some

of whom I had never met before, and among them Mark Twain, Francis

Marion Crawford and William Dean Howells.

As I lay down my pen, memories of many old friends are passing before me

and of their children, too. Then there are others with whom I formed

ties later in life of the most enduring character. This is especially

true of my old and cherished neighbors, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Francis A.

Roe. With his work well done he now rests from his labors, but his widow

is yet my valued friend. Still another is Rear Admiral Winfield Scott

Schley, U.S. N. who, surrounded by admiring friends in Washington, lives

quietly and unostentatiously and bears his laurels well; and last, but

anything in the world but least, Mrs. Julian James, a representative of

a distinguished New York family, the daughter of Theodorus Bailey Myers,

who has made her home in Washington for many years, and is now the "Lady

Bountiful" of the National Capital. Beautiful in person as well as in

character, she distributes her wealth with a lavish hand, and richly

deserves the words "well done."

In looking backward through the years of a long and active life I have

seen varied relays of humanity, all of them acting their parts and

filling their appropriate niches--great and small often standing

shoulder to shoulder and engaged in the same strife. Many of them, my

friends in childhood as well as old age, have long since passed into the

life beyond. _Vanitas Vanitatis!_ may be the exclamation of the

moralizing cynic, but to me many of these memories are a blessed

heritage, and I am grateful to the Father of All for permitting me to

catch from them the inspiration to prepare these rambling notes.

INDEX

Abert, John, 195.

Abinger, Lord, 211.

Lady, 211.

Adams, Abigail, 134.

Abigail Louisa Smith, 148.

Charles, 148.

Charles Francis, 149, 352.

Mrs. Charles Francis, 148, 149, 352.

Elizabeth Combs, 205-207.

Isaac Hull, 205-207.

John (1), 57, 134, 147, 148, 206, 316.

John (2), 214, 282.

Mrs. John, 214, 282.

John Quincy, 31, 32, 148, 149, 199, 200, 206, 214, 279, 280, 282.

Mrs. John Quincy, 279, 280, 332.

Mary Louisa, 199.

Thomas Boylston, 206, 207.

William, 180.

Addington, Henry Unwin, 279.

Addison, Joseph, 80.

Adrian, Robert, 53, 66.

Agg, John T., 280.

Albert, Prince, 163.

William T., 372.

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 158.

Alfonso XIII., of Spain, 100.

Allen, Eliza, 198.

John, 198.

Allerton, Willoughby, 324.

Mrs. Willoughby, 324.

Allston, Washington, 99.

Almonte, Juan Nepomuceno, 229.

Mrs. Juan Nepomuceno, 229.

Almy, John J., 257.

Anderson, Richard C, 239.

Robert, 239.

Mrs. Robert, 239, 240.

Andrews, Edward G., 53.

John A., 178.

Anne, Queen, 141.

Anthon, Charles, 13-16, 18.

Anthony, Henry B., 361.

Appleton, James Means, 255.

Jesse, 255.

Armistead, Richard, 145.

Mrs. Richard, 69, 146.

Susan, 73, 145.

Armstrong, John, 72.

Mr., of New York, 112.

Arthur, Chester A., 11, 390, 391.

Ashton, Henry, 215.

Astor, Dorothea, 74.

Eliza, 75.

Emily, 53.

George, 76.

"George and Company," 76.

Henry, 75.

John Jacob (1), 33, 36, 39, 72-77.

John Jacob (2), 22.

Magdalen, 74.

William B., 22, 23, 53, 72.

William Waldorf, 102.

"Astor and Camp," 76.

Atkinson, Henry, 163.

Mrs. Henry, 163.

Auchmuty, Richard Tyldin, 364.

Audenreid, Florence, 373.

Joseph C., 372.

Augustus, Emperor, 385.

Aulick, John H., 169.

Bache, Eliza Ann, 78.

Matilda, 278.

Bacon, Alice, 19.

Delia, 19.

Francis, 34.

Julia, 19.

Leonard, 19.

Badger, Miss, 374.

Bakhmeteff, Madame, 364.

Balfe, Michael William, 227.

Victoire, 227.

Ball, Mary, 377.

Bancroft, George, 171, 199, 371, 372.

Mrs. George, 106, 372.

Bankhead, James, 186, 211.

The Misses, 186.

Banks, Nathaniel P., 178, 315.

Bannister, Mr., 185.

Bantz, Gideon, 340.

Baraza, Cipriano, 297.

Barbour, James L., 175.

Barca, de la, Don Calderon, 233.

Madame Calderon, 233, 252.

Barclay, Andrew D., 142.

Bard, Samuel, 146.

William, 146.

Barker, Jacob, 43.

Barlow, Francis C., 184.

Barnum, P. T., 162.

Barron, James, 259.

Bartlett, William H. C., 123.

Bass, Mrs. Eugénie, 231.

Bazaine, François Achillé, 278.

Beach, Moses Y., 44, 113.

Beale, Edward F., 364.

Mrs. Edward F., 364.

Mary, 364.

Bearn, de, Louis, 230, 231.

Princess, 231.

Beauharnais, de, Hortense, 258.

Beaujour, de, Felix, 51.

Beaumont, John C., 304.

Beauregard, de, Paix, 58.

Toutant, 58.

Pierre G. T., 54, 58, 234.

Beck, James B., 387.

Mrs. James B., 387.

Becket, à, Thomas, 96.

Beckett, Hamilton, 96.

Belden, George, 144.

Julia, 144.

Belknap, William G., 374.

Bellini, Giovanni, 234.

Bellows, Henry W., 147.

Belmont, August, 35, 85, 95.

Mrs. August, 95, 165.

Beltzhoover, Daniel M., 121.

Benham, Henry W., 64, 255.

Mrs. Henry W., 64, 255.

Bennett, James Gordon, 46, 47, 83.

Mrs. James Gordon, 47.

Benton, James G., 46.

Mrs. James G., 46.

Jessie Ann, 229.

Mr., 281.

Susan, 229.

Thomas H., 92, 93, 229, 279.

Bentzon, Adrian B., 74.

Mrs. Adrian B., 74.

Bérault, Améline, 52.

Charles, 67.

Madame Charles, 67.

Laura, 52.

Marie-Louise Joséphine Laure, 67.

Pauline, 68.

Vincente Rose Améline, 67.

Beresford, William, 154.

Bergmans, Alfred, 232.

Madame Alfred, 232.

Berret, James G., 367.

Mrs. James G., 367.

Berrian, William, 86.

Berrien, William McPherson, 56.

Bertinatti, Giuseppe, 231.

Madame Giuseppe, 231.

Bibby, Augustus, 267.

Edward N., 267.

Mrs. Edward N., 267.

Gouverneur S., 36, 371.

Mrs. Gouverneur S., 22.

Henry Warburton, 267.

Biddle, Nicholas, 14.

Bigelow, John, 53, 126.

Bisset, John, 142.

Black, Jeremiah S., 286.

Rebecca B., 286.

Blackwell, Jacob, 5.

Lydia, 5.

Robert, 5.

Blaine, James G., 174, 361, 385.

Mrs. James G., 361, 385.

Blair, Hugh, 30.

Mrs. James, 258.

Bleecker, Anthony, 87.

Bliss, Alexander, 372.

Mrs. Alexander, 372.

D. W., 390.

William W. S., 152.

Blodgett, George M., 87.

Boggs, Edward B., 87.

Boilleau, Baron Geoffrey, 229, 230.

The Baroness, 229.

Bolles, T. Dix, 215.

Mrs. T. Dix, 215.

Bolton, William Compton, 21.

Mrs. William Compton, 21.

Bonaparte, Jerome, 339.

Boreel, Mrs. Francis R., 73.

Borland, Mr., 281.

Solon, 205.

Boswell, James, 80.

Botelwalla, (a Parsee), 294.

Botta, Vincenzo, 158.

Mrs. Vincenzo, 158, 159.

Bouck, William C., 189, 193.

Bowne, Walter, 30.

Boyce, Edward, 233.

Mrs. Edward, 233.

Bradford, Elizabeth Hopkins, 375.

William, 183.

Bradish, Luther, 3.

Bradley, Joseph P., 382.

Brady, James T., 83, 84.

Brandegee, Maria, 58.

Brasher, Philip, 43.

Bratz, Herrman, 372.

Bray, Mrs. Ann Eliza, 66.

Breckenridge, John C., 220.

Bresson, de, Paul Alfred, 232.

Bridge, Horatio, 274.

Mrs. Horatio, 274.

Bridgens, Cornelia, 159, 160.

The Misses, 159.

Brodhead, Jacob, 86.

Broglie, de, Duchesse, 75.

Bronson, Orestes Augustus, 158.

Brooke, Catharine L., 174.

Brooks, Peter C., 148.

Preston S., 244.

Mrs. Sidney, 225.

Brown, B. Gratz, 351.

Colonel, 348.

Jesse, 176.

John Marshall, 215.

Mrs. John Marshall, 215.

Mr., 281.

Robert M. G., 340.

Mrs. Robert M. G., 340.

(Sexton), 135, 136, 137.

Browne, George W., 35.

Browning, Robert, 371.

Mrs. Robert, 371.

Brownlee, William C., 86.

Bryant, William Cullen, 45, 48, 119.

Buchanan, James, 176, 177, 218, 242, 276, 285, 286, 288, 341, 376, 390.

James, (British Consul in N.Y.), 168.

Roberdeau, 9.

Mrs. Roberdeau, 9.

Buckingham, Mrs. Benjamin F., 199.

Buckley, Barzilla, 18.

Bucknor, Cornelia, 185.

Emily, 186.

Frank, 185, 186.

Bull, Ole, 196.

Bullitt, Diana Moore, 163.

Eloise, ("Lou"), 163.

Mary, 163.

Bulloch, James D., 304.

Bunner, Anne, 40.

Rudolph, 40, 42, 43.

Burdette, Charles, 9.

Burke, Edmund, 84.

Burney, Frances, 66.

Burns, David, 236, 237.

Robert, 14.

William C., 297.

Burnside, Ambrose E., 361, 364.

Burr, Aaron, 6, 99, 108, 258.

Theodosia, 99.

Burton, William E., 13, 26, 82, 162.

Bush, Ralph I., 27, 28.

Butler, Andrew P., 244.

Benjamin F., 92, 161.

Mrs. Benjamin F., 161.

Gen. Benjamin F., 221, 222, 274.

Charles Henry, 368.

Pierce (1), (Senator), 85.

Pierce (2), 85.

Byron, Lord, 40, 84, 354.

Caballero, Lucas, 297.

Cabell, Mrs. Robert Henry, 105, 183.

Cadwalader, John (1), 255.

John (2), 255.

John L., 373.

Mary, 373.

Mrs. Thomas, 267.

Calhoun, John C., 4, 279, 384.

Cameron, Simon, 274.

Cammack, Mrs., 54.

Campan, Madame, 29, 258.

Campbell, Alexander, 7, 8.

Archibald, 207, 218.

Mrs. Archibald, 207.

Charles H., 207.

Mrs. Charles H., 207.

Charlotte, 265, 311.

Fanny, 19, 22, 139, 171.

James (1), 6, 12-15, 18, 31-33, 40, 45, 179, 180, 366.

Mrs. James, 14, 18, 262, 266, 271, 311.

Campbell, James (2), 22, 23, 265.

Malcolm (1), 6, 8, 9, 45.

Malcolm (2), 17, 98, 173, 265, 311.

Margaret, 115, 184, 187, 233, 262, 264-266.

Marian, 16, 261, 262, 264, 266.

St. George Tucker, 212.

Mrs. St. George Tucker, 212.

Miss, 374.

Canda, Charles, 67.

Charlotte, 67.

Canova, Antonio, 338.

Carey, Asa Bacon, 355.

Mrs. Asa Bacon, 355.

Carlisle, Earl of, 106, 146.

Carlota, Empress, 208, 209.

Caroline, Queen of Naples, 337, 338.

Carpenter, Lilian, 372.

Matthew, 372.

Carr, Jonathan, 2.

Carroll, Alida, 215.

Carrie, 215.

Charles, 101, 106, 262.

Daniel, 236.

Harriet, 262.

Helen Sophia, 314.

Sallie, 215.

Violetta Lansdale, 215.

William Thomas, 214, 217, 266.

Mrs. William Thomas, 214, 266.

Carter, Bernard Moore, 97.

Robert, 249.

Cass, Isabella, 121, 187.

Lewis Cass, 121, 188.

Casti, Giovanni Battista, 34.

Caton, Richard, 101.

Mrs. Richard, 101.

Caux, de, Grimaud, 358.

Madame Grimaud, 358.

Chalmers, Thomas, 168.

Chandler, William E., 361.

Mrs. William E., 361.

Zachariah, 241, 368.

Mrs. Zachariah, 368.

Channing, William Henry, 157, 158.

Chapman, John Gadsby, 119.

Charraud, John T., 29.

Chase, Salmon P., 218, 334.

Chateaubriand, François Auguste, 101.

Chaulet, Mrs. George R. A., 67.

Chegaray, Madame Eloise, 50-54, 57, 58, 61, 63-67, 69, 103, 139, 216.

Chesterfield, Lord, 80, 329.

Chew, Beverly, 57.

Mrs. Beverly, 57, 58.

Catharine Alexander, 57.

Robert S., 218.

Choate, Rufus, 85, 94, 178, 225.

Chopin, Fréderic François, 76.

Chrystie, Mr., 186.

Church, Albert E., 123.

Clagett, Darius, 175.

Clark, Daniel, 58.

Clay, Clement C., 277.

Mrs. Clement C., 277.

Henry, 31, 32, 63, 89, 159, 279,

317, 384.

Clerke, William B., 185.

Cleveland, Grover, 34, 383.

Clinch, Duncan L., 240.

Clinton, Augusta, 71.

Mrs. DeWitt, 69, 70, 71, 129, 145.

Julia, 69.

Cochrane, John, 109, 150, 352.

Codman, Charles Russell, 111.

Coffey, Titian J., 367.

Mrs. Titian J., 367.

Cohen, Abraham H., 9.

Mrs. Abraham H., 9.

Mrs. Sara Jane Picken, 9.

Coleman, Margaret, 199.

Sarah, 199.

Coles, Mrs. (of New York), 35.

Colfax, Schuyler, 356.

Mrs. Schuyler, 356.

Colhoun, Mrs. William H., 187.

Collins, Charles Oliver, 359.

Mrs. Charles Oliver, 359.

Mrs. Mary Bailey, 359.

Condit-Smith, John, 385.

Mrs. John, 385.

Conkling, Roscoe, 361.

Mrs. Roscoe, 361.

Connelly, Pierce, 61, 62.

Mrs. Pierce, 63.

Contoit, John H., 34.

Conway, Moncure D., 378, 379.

Coolidge, Mrs. Harriet Morris, 200.

Richard Henry, 200.

Mrs. Richard Henry, 200.

Cooper, James Fenimore, 92, 131.

Priscilla, 94.

Thomas Apthorpe, 94.

Mrs. Thomas Apthorpe, 94.

Corbin, Francis Porteus, 339.

Corcoran, Thomas, 217.

William W., 197, 217, 374, 376.

Cornbury, Lord, 141.

Cottringer, Mr., 281.

Coudert, Frederick R., 17.

Cox, Arthur Cleveland, 90.

Samuel H., 90.

Cozzens, William B., 36, 180.

Craig, Adam, 64.

Mrs. Adam, 64.

Jane Stith, 64.

Crampton, John F. T., 226-228.

Mrs. John F. T., 227.

Crane, Charles H., 195.

Ichabod B., 195.

Crawford, Francis Marion, 392.

William H., 32, 282.

Crean, Henrietta Agnes, 47.

Crittenden, John Jordan, 279.

Croghan, Mary E., 233, 234.

Cromwell, Oliver, 2, 381.

Samuel, 91, 93.

Crooke, Mary, 131.

Croom, Henry B., 54.

Henrietta, 54, 55, 57.

Cropper, John, 358.

Mrs. John, 358.

Crowninshield, Arent Schuyler, 375.

Mrs. Arent Schuyler, 12, 375-376.

Benjamin W., 282.

The Misses, 280, 282.

Cruger, Mrs. Douglas, 111.

Cumberland, Duke of, 7, 201.

Cunard, Edward, 117.

Lady, 166.

Curry, Jabez L. M., 99.

Mrs. Jabez L. M., 99.

Curtin, Andrew G., 352, 367.

Curtis, George William, 158, 377.

Cushing, Caleb, 101, 102, 178, 198, 251, 252, 254, 255, 265, 333.

Custis, Mrs. Daniel Parke, 236.

Mrs. Sallie Smith, 337.

Cutts, Mrs. Rose Adelle ("Addie"), 219.

James Madison, 218, 219.

Mrs. James Madison, 218-220.

Richard, 218.

Dahlgren, John A., 377, 378.

Mrs. John A., 377.

Mrs. Madeleine Vinton, 377, 378.

Dallas, George M., 85.

Daly, Charles P., 13, 18.

Joseph F., 18.

Dana, Charles A., 157, 352.

Francis, 158.

Mrs. Francis, 158.

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 53, 82.

Lorenzo L., 53.

Dardon, Madame, 374.

Darwin, Charles, 80.

Davenport, Mrs. Henry K., 213

Richard G., 213.

Davidge, Walter D., 387, 390.

Mrs. Walter D., 387.

Davidson, Samuel, 236.

Davies, Solomon B., 265.

Mrs. Solomon B., 265.

Davis, Charles Augustus, 36, 74.

Mrs. Charles Augustus, 74.

David, 352.

Delaware, 380.

Henry Gassaway, 340.

Mrs. Henry Gassaway, 340.

George T., 245.

Grace, 340.

Hallie, 340.

Jefferson, 103, 213, 284, 287.

Mrs. Jefferson, 213, 276.

John, 373.

Kate, 340.

Samuel B., 380.

Winter, 178.

Dawes, Anna, 361.

Henry L., 361.

Mrs. Henry L., 361.

Day, Henry, 137.

De Genlis, Madame, 168.

De Hart, Abigail, 180.

De Kay, George Coleman, 221.

De Koven, Henry, 117.

Mrs. Henry, 117.

Reginald, 117.

De Menou, Jules, 193.

De Peyster, Arent Schuyler, 34, 165.

Captain, 51.

Frederick (1), 49.

Frederick (2), 39, 163, 164.

Mrs. Frederick, 164.

James Ferguson, 64.

John Watts, 116, 163, 165, 166.

Mrs. John Watts, 116, 166.

Susan Maria Clarkson, 64.

De Rham, Henry Casimir, 102.

Mrs. Henry Casimir, 102.

De Ruiz, Domingo Leoncio, 68.

Mrs. Domingo Leoncio, 68.

De Sodré, Lucinia, 314.

Luis Pereira, 314.

De Staël, Madame, 75, 276.

De Veaux, Mr., of New York, 112.

De Wint, Caroline, 134.

De Witt, Thomas, 86, 180.

De Wolf, Mr., 281.

Decatur, Anne Pine, 309.

Stephen (1), 216, 258, 259, 279, 309, 310.

Mrs. Stephen, 259.

Stephen (2), 309.

Dehon, Fanny, 225.

Delafield, Edward, 116.

Mrs. Edward, 116.

Henry, 111, 115, 116.

John, 115.

Joseph, 116.

Richard, 116.

William, 116.

Delarue, Marguerite M., 175.

Demonet, Charles, 175.

Demsey, John, 323.

Denning, Hannah Maria, 15.

Dennison, Jenny, 367.

Miss, 374.

William, 367.

Mrs. William, 367.

Dent, Louis, 355.

Mrs. Louis, 355.

Derby, George H., 282-285.

Désabaye, Caroline, 67.

Clara, 52.

Gustave, 51.

Marc, 51, 52.

Pierre Prosper, 50.

Déslonde, Adrian, 93.

Marie Mathilde, 95.

Dewey, Orville, 88.

D'Hervilly, Joseph U. F., 68.

Madame Joseph U. F., 67, 68.

Dickinson, Jonathan, 389.

Julia Maria, 47.

Didot, Firmin, 13.

Diehl, George, 328, 341.

Mrs. George, 328, 341.

Marie, 328.

Dieterich, George, 75.

Dillon-Lee, Marmaduke, 328.

Dix, John A., 315.

Morgan, 75.

Dodge, Mary Abigail, 374, 385.

Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 358, 359.

Donoho, Thomas Seaton, 272, 275.

D'Oremieulx, Theophile, 147.

Douglas, Dr., 198.

George, 113, 142.

Mrs. George, 111, 114.

Jennie, 218.

John W., 357.

Mrs. John W., 357.

Stephen A., 219, 220, 265.

Mrs. Stephen A., 219, 220, 276, 349.

William, 111.

Downing, Andrew Jackson, 134.

Mrs. Andrew Jackson, 134.

"Jack," 276.

Mrs. "Jack," 74.

Dryden, John, 80.

Dudley, Mrs. Henry, 188.

Mrs. William E., 370.

Duer, Anna Henrietta, 40.

Catharine Theodore, 84.

Edward Alexander, 84.

Mrs. Edward Alexander, 84.

Eleanor Jones, 15, 131.

Elizabeth Denning, 132.

Frances Maria, 15, 132.

John, 40, 92.

Mrs. John, 40.

Maria Theodosia, 58.

William A., 14, 15, 58, 84, 132.

Mrs. William A., 15.

Duke, Mrs. Basil, 243.

Dundas, Mr., 168.

Dunmore, Earl of, 141-143.

Dunn, Miss, 374.

Durand, Asher B., 119.

Dutilh, Eugene, 165.

Mrs. Eugene, 165.

Dyer, Alexander B., 125.

Eames, Charles, 128, 171, 172, 313.

Mrs. Charles, 128, 171-173, 178, 179, 249, 261-262, 265, 313, 367.

Charles Campbell, 386.

Fanny, 172.

Early, Jubal A., 324.

Eastman, Mrs. Anna Harris, 369.

Thomas Henderson, 369.

Mrs. Thomas Henderson, 369.

Eaton, John H., 359.

Mrs. John H., 359.

Edes, Margaret, 275.

Edgar, Daniel, 79.

Mrs. Daniel, 79.

Edgeworth, Maria, 66, 98.

Edward VII., 163.

Elkins, Stephen B., 340.

Mrs. Stephen B., 340, 378.

Ellet, Mrs. Elizabeth, 286, 340, 341.

Ellicott, Andrew, 205.

Elssler, Fanny, 85, 86.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 99, 158, 251.

Emery, William H., 278.

Mrs. William H., 278.

Emmett, the Messrs. of N.Y., 112.

Emory, Miss, 374.

Eppes, Francis Wayles, 339.

John Wayles, 339.

Mrs. John Wayles, 339.

Esterhazy, The Countess, 215.

Eugénie, Empress, 270, 307, 338.

Eustis, Abram, 100.

Mrs. Abram, 100.

Evarts, William M., 151, 152, 383.

Eveleth, Kate, 362, 363.

Everett, Edward, 64, 148, 149, 178, 214, 222-225, 266.

Mrs. Edward, 148, 222.

Henry Sidney, 149.

Ewell, Cordelia, 273.

Richard S., 273.

Fahnenberg, Baron, 243.

Fairlie, James, 94.

Louisa, 94.

Mary, 94.

Farley, Mrs. John, 214.

Featherstonhaugh, G. W., 97.

Fendall, Mrs. Reginald, 367.

Fessenden, John M., 182.

Field, Cyrus W., 384.

David Dudley, 384.

Henry M., 384.

Stephen J., 384.

Mrs. Stephen J., 384, 385.

Figanière, Joaquim Cesar de, 70.

Fish, Bayard, 185.

Beekman, 185, 186.

"Fish, Grinnell and Company," 113.

Fish, Hamilton (1), 103, 148, 150, 151, 152, 165, 174, 186, 286, 373.

Mrs. Hamilton, 52, 150, 152,

153, 174, 187, 205, 286, 360.

Hamilton (2), 373.

Preserved, 113, 114.

Fisher, George H., 180.

Fitzgerald, Louis, 269.

Floyd, John B., 341.

John G., 266.

Julia, 116.

Mr., 281.

William, 116.

Follin, Adolphus, 185.

Foote, Henry S., 388.

Kate, 361.

Forbes, Harriet Blackwell, 187.

John, 22.

Mrs. John, 23.

Maria, 22-24, 26-28, 30, 50, 294.

Forrest, Edwin, 82, 83.

Mrs. Edwin, 83.

Uriah, 369, 370.

Forsyth, John, 30, 31, 282.

Mrs. John, 280, 282.

Foster, Lafayette S., 334.

Fox, Henry Stephen, 227, 228.

Francis, John W., 23, 26-28,

69, 81, 82, 98, 115, 180.

Franklin, Benjamin, 26, 28, 379.

Fraser, Donald, 115.

Freeman, Isabel, 199.

William G., 199.

Mrs. William G., 199.

Frelinghuysen, Frederick, 11.

Frederick Theodore, 11.

Theodore, 11.

Fremont, John C., 230.

Mrs. John C., 230.

Frietchie, Barbara, 125, 327.

Fuller, Margaret, 158.

Melville, 215.

Furguson, Mrs., 287

Gadsby, John, 177.

Gage, Henry (1), 24.

Henry (2), 125.

Thomas, 124.

Mrs. Thomas, 124.

Gaines, Edmund Pendleton (1), 58.

Mrs. Edmund Pendleton, 58.

Edmund Pendleton (2), 354.

Mrs. Edmund Pendleton (2), 354.

Mrs. Myra Clark, 58.

Gales, Mrs. Joseph, 280, 282.

Galliher, Mr., 185.

Galt, Matthew W., 367.

Mrs. Matthew W., 367.

Garcia, Manuel, 81.

Signor, 81.

Garfield, James A., 377, 389, 390.

Garrick, David, 80.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 99.

Gaston, William, 279, 389.

Mrs. William, 389.

Gau, Alexandre, 233, 266.

Mrs. Alexandre, 233, 270.

Gautier, Charles, 175.

Gauvain, Michael A., 29.

Gelston, David, 72.

Henry, 35.

Maltby, 71, 72, 100, 101.

Margaret, 71, 72, 100.

Mary, 71, 72, 100.

Genet, Edmond Charles, 1, 2, 29.

George I., 8.

Gerard, James W., 144, 185.

Julia, 185.

Gerolt, von, Bertha, 232.

The Baroness, 232.

Frederick Charles Joseph, 231, 232.

The Baroness, 232.

Gerry, Mrs. Hannah Greene, 217.

Gevers, Johan Cornelis, 213, 266.

The Baroness, 213.

Gibbes, Annette, 22.

Charlotte Augusta, 22.

Robert Morgan, 102.

Mrs. Robert Morgan, 102.

Thomas S., 21, 36.

Mrs. Thomas S., 21, 22, 36.

Gibbon, Edward, 80.

Gibbs, Benjamin F., 304.

George, 147.

Mrs. George, 147, 313.

Laura Wolcott, 147.

Wolcott, 147.

Gillett, Ransom H., 138.

Goelet, Peter, 217.

Goldsborough, Margaret, 334, 350.

Mary Catharine, 334.

Gonzales, Ambrosio José, 234, 235.

Goodloe, Green Clay, 387.

Mrs. Green Clay, 387.

Gordon, John B., 324.

Gordon-Cumming, Alexander Penrose, 172.

Mrs. Alexander Penrose, 172.

Gould, James, 4.

Gouverneur, Mrs. Abraham, 131.

Elizabeth, 265.

Emily, 120.

Frederick Philipse, 130.

Gertrude, 118.

Isaac, 118.

Louisa A., 270.

Margaret Philipse, 130.

Mary Marston, 130, 131, 269.

Maud Campbell, 183, 270, 271, 307, 362.

Nicholas, 118, 127, 256.

Rose de Chine, 309, 346.

Ruth Monroe, 288, 320, 390.

Samuel, 130.

Mrs. Samuel, 130, 131.

Samuel L. (1), 193, 256-258, 261, 262, 264, 265, 272, 314, 315, 320.

Mrs. Samuel L. (1), (first wife, Maria Hester Monroe), 47, 109, 256,

257, 259, 260, 264.

Mrs. Samuel L. (1), (second wife, Mary Digges Lee), 256, 261, 262,

265.

Samuel L. (2), 25, 109, 115, 256, 259, 262-264, 267, 270-272, 275,

276, 282, 283, 285, 288, 290, 292, 294, 295, 300-303, 306-309, 312,

313, 316-320, 322, 323, 325, 328, 330, 332, 335, 350-353, 356, 364,

366, 370, 373, 389.

Mrs. Samuel L. (2), _Preface_, 25, 139, 206, 270, 271, 308, 344, 346,

347, 348, 362, 366.

Samuel Mongan Warburton, 269.

"Gouverneur and Kemble," 48, 118.

Gower, Ronald, 228.

Grabow, von, Guido, 233, 266.

The Baroness, 233.

Graham, George, 213.

Mrs. George, 213.

John, 213.

Granger, Adele, 139.

Delia W., 370.

Francis, 138.

Gideon, 138.

Grant, Frederick, 374.

Nellie, 356, 366.

Ulysses S., 152, 232, 254, 319, 349, 350, 351, 352, 355, 356, 361,

365, 370, 372, 373, 376, 381.

Mrs. Ulysses S., 355.

Gray, John F., 133.

Greeley, Horace, 225, 350, 351, 352, 355, 356.

Greely, Adolphus W., 214, 391.

Mrs. Adolphus W., 214, 391.

Green, Alice, 370.

John, 370.

Thomas, 240.

Mrs. Thomas, 240.

Greenhow, Robert, 220.

Mrs. Robert, 177, 218, 220, 221, 222.

Rose, 220.

Greenwood, Grace, 377.

Greig, John, 39, 138.

Griffin, William Preston, 205.

Mrs. William Preston, 52, 205.

Griffith, Arabella, 184.

George, 92.

Philip, 222, 224.

Grinnell, Cornelia, 160.

"Grinnell, Minturn and Co.," 133.

Guiteau, Charles J., 390.

Gurowski, Adam, 177, 246-250.

Ignatius, 249, 250.

Ladislas, 246.

Guthrie, James, 178, 266, 286.

Gwin, William McKendree, 276, 278.

Mrs. William McKendree, 276.

Habersham, Joseph (1), 57.

Joseph (2), 57.

Josephine, 57.

William Neyle, 57, 335.

Mrs. William Neyle, 57, 335.

Haight, Mrs. Richard K., 155.

Haldane, Mary, 358.

Hale, Eugene, 368.

Halleck, Henry W., 317, 318.

Hallett, Hughes, 286.

Mrs. Hughes, 286.

Halliday, Edward C., 388.

Mrs. Edward C., 388, 389.

Hamilton, Alexander (1), 78, 108, 109, 257, 274, 380.

Mrs. Alexander (1), 193, 197, 287.

Alexander (2), 38.

Mrs. Alexander (2), 38.

Angelica, 108.

Gail, 374, 385.

James A., 38, 257.

Mrs. James A., 38.

John A., 175.

John C., 30, 36, 109.

Mrs. John C., 22.

Laurens, 109.

Molly, 96.

Philip, 108.

Schuyler, 105.

Mrs. Schuyler, 105, 365.

Hammersley, Gordon, 154.

Mrs. Gordon, 154.

John, 154, 246.

Louis, 154.

Mrs. Louis, 154.

Thomas, 90.

Hammond, George, 276.

Hardee, William J., 120, 121, 125, 126, 266.

Hardey, Madame Mary Aloysia, 59.

Harod, Charles, 207.

Mary Williamson, 207.

Harper, Emily, 101, 103, 246, 251, 265.

Harper, Robert Goodloe, 101.

Mrs. Robert Goodloe, 101.

Walter, 175.

Harrison, Augustus Joseph Francis, 307.

Benjamin, 274, 357.

Mrs. Henry, 368.

William Henry, 138, 201, 356.

Hasbrouck, Henry C., 133.

Maria, 133.

William C., 133.

Mrs. William C., 133.

Havens, Benny, 121-123.

Haviland, John Von Sonntag, 277.

Hawks, Francis L., 86, 87, 250.

Hawley, Joseph R., 361.

Mrs. Joseph R., 361.

William, 257, 258.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 157.

Hay, George, 29, 258.

Mrs. George, 29, 258.

Sophie, 50, 51.

Hayes, Rutherford B., 151, 367, 381-383, 387.

Mrs. Rutherford B., 383.

Hayne, Mr., 281.

Hazard, John, 1-3, 5, 18.

Mrs. John ("Nancy"), 6.

Jonathan, 2.

Maria, 132.

Mary Ann, 18.

Theodore E., 387.

"Heard (Augustus) and Company," 293, 308.

Hearst, George, 391.

Mrs. George (Phoebe), 391.

William R., 391.

Heckscher, Richard, 146.

Mrs. Richard, 146.

Heiskell, Henry Lee, 265.

Mrs. Henry Lee, 265.

James Monroe, 265, 319.

Hellen, Mary, 214, 281, 282.

Henry, Joseph, 359, 360.

Mrs. Joseph, 359.

Patrick, 142.

Heth, Henry, 121.

Joice, 162.

Heyward, Edward, 35.

Hibbard, Mr., 262.

Hicks, Henry W., 111, 117.

"Hicks and Company," 117.

Higginson, Francis J., 358.

Mrs. Francis J., 358.

Hilgard, Theodore E., 387.

Mrs. Theodore E., 387.

Hill, Clement C., 199.

Mrs. Clement C., 199, 372.

Ellen Ann, 368.

Hilton, Henry, 17.

Hinckley, Mrs. Samuel L., 81.

Hinsdale, Horace, 35.

Hoes, Roswell Randall, 346.

Mrs. Roswell Randall, _Preface_, 346.

Hoff, William Bainbridge, 387.

Hoffman, Charles F., 268, 269.

Mrs. Charles F., 269.

Charles W., 385.

Eugene A., 268.

Josiah Ogden, 128.

Matilda, 128.

Ogden, 43.

Mrs. Ogden, 44.

"Hoffman and Seaton," 48.

Hogan, Frances, 354.

William, 354.

Hogarth, William, 2.

Holly, Mrs. Hamilton, 108, 193, 274, 287.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 245.

Holt, Joseph, 341-344, 346-348.

Hone, John, 34.

Philip, 30, 34.

Hopkins, Louise, 375.

Samuel Miles, 12.

Hornsby, Isham, 286.

Mrs. Isham, 286.

Horsey, Outerbridge, 314.

Hortense, Queen, 29.

House, Crissie, 331.

The Misses, 331.

Houston, Sam, 198, 199.

Mrs. Sam (first wife, Eliza Allen), 198.

Mrs. Sam (second wife, Margaret Moffette), 199.

Howard, Henry George, 106.

Mrs. Henry George, 106.

Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, 53.

Howells, William Dean, 392.

Howland, Gardiner G., 239.

Mrs. Gardiner G., 239.

Hoyt, Goold, 196.

Mrs. Goold, 196.

Hannah, 269.

Hoyt, Henry Shaeffe, 15, 132.

Mrs. Henry Sheaffe, 15, 132.

Jesse, 31, 32, 33.

Huc, Evariste Régis, 288.

Hughes, John, 59, 88, 89, 104-106.

Hull, Amos G., 133.

Hulsemann, John George, 231.

Humboldt, von, Alexander, 232, 245, 289.

Hunt, Ward, 367.

Mrs. Ward, 367.

Mrs. Ridgely, 44.

Hunter, David, 326.

Iglehart, James, 304.

Ingersoll, Colin M., 223.

Ingle, Osborne, 328.

Inglis, Fanny, 233.

Lydia, 233.

Irving, Leslie, 185, 186.

Pierre Paris, 40.

Mrs. Pierre Paris, 40.

Sanders, 174.

Mrs. Sanders, 174, 370.

Washington, 40, 63, 127, 128, 129.

Iselin, Adrian, 51.

Isaac, 51, 52.

Izard, Ralph, 100.

Jackson, Andrew, 4, 30, 70, 161, 189, 191, 207, 215, 244, 257, 279, 280,

282, 358, 359, 390.

Benjamin L., 175.

Luther, 29.

Thomas J. ("Stonewall"), 327.

James II., 7.

James, Edward, 167.

Mrs. Julian, 392.

"Jardine and Matthewson," 306.

Jauncey, Jane Mary, 78.

Jay, Elizabeth Clarkson, 58.

John, 58, 379.

Peter Augustus, 58, 165, 204.

Mrs. Peter Augustus, 204, 214.

Jefferson, Maria, 339.

Martha, 357.

Thomas, 57, 72, 97, 138, 142, 339, 357, 380, 381, 390.

Jeffrey, Alexander, 370.

Mrs. Alexander, 370.

Jeffrey, Jennie, 14.

Jennings, Sarah, 154.

Jesup, Thomas S., 258.

Jewell, Miss, 374.

Johnson, Alexander B., 148.

Mrs. Alexander B., 148, 150.

Andrew, 342, 343, 345, 347-349.

Bradley T., 319, 320, 321.

George, 142.

Joseph E. ("Joe"), 326.

Joshua, 279.

Louisa Catharine, 279, 332.

Samuel, 80, 84.

Thomas, 236, 279, 331.

Mrs. William Clarkson, 200.

William Crawford, 320.

Johnston, Mrs. Harriet Lane, 286.

Mrs. Henry Elliott, 285.

James M., 369.

Mary B., 369.

William P., 368.

Joinville, de, Prince, 83.

Jones, David S., 15.

Dr., 262.

Mrs. Gore, 374.

Isaac, 153.

Mrs. Isaac, 153.

John P., 376.

Mary Anna Schuyler, 60.

Roger, 195, 283.

Samuel, 58, 60.

Madame Sarah, 58-60.

Virginia Collins, 255.

Walter, 255.

Joseph II., of Austria, 34.

Judd, Gerrit P., 171, 173.

Samuel, 36.

Kane, De Lancey, 37, 39.

Mrs. De Lancey, 39, 74.

John, 39.

Lydia, 37, 162, 168.

Sarah, 39.

Kantzow, de, Frederick, 163.

The Baroness, 163.

Kean, Christine, 52, 205.

John, 187.

Peter Philip James, 205.

Kearny, Mrs. Diana Bullitt, 165, 238.

Edward, 165.

Mary, 163.

Kearny, Nancy, 163.

Philip (1), 163-165.

Mrs. Philip (1), 164.

Philip (2), 116, 163, 165, 175, 238.

Mrs. Philip (2), 163, 238, 239, 348.

Virginia De Lancey, 44.

Keating, Miss, 374.

Keats, John, 80.

Keefer, C. H., 350.

Kellogg, Frances, 216.

Julia, 216.

Sanford C., 276.

Kemble, Charles, 84.

Ellen, 119.

Fanny, 15, 84-86, 124.

Gouverneur, 24, 80, 119, 123-127, 129, 130, 256, 268, 338.

Margaret, 124.

Margaret Tillotson, 73, 118.

Mary, 118, 119.

Peter, 118.

Mrs. Peter, 118.

Richard Frederick, 120.

Mrs. Richard Frederick, 120.

William, 73, 118, 119, 123, 129, 217, 268, 295.

Mrs. William, 119, 120, 185, 186, 271.

Kemmerer, Joseph, 167.

Kennedy, James C., 367.

Mrs. James C., 367.

Joseph C. G., 205.

Mrs. Joseph C. G., 205.

Thomas H., 58.

Mrs. Thomas H., 58.

Kennon, Mrs. Beverly, 193.

Kernan, Francis, 361.

Mrs. Francis, 361.

Miss, 361, 374.

Thomas, 361.

Kerr, Mr., 281.

Key, Francis Scott, 334.

Mrs. John, 370.

Kidder, Jerome E., 266.

Kilbourn, Miss, 374.

King, Archibald Gracie, 15.

Mrs. Archibald Gracie, 15, 132.

Charles, 4, 46, 105.

Mrs. Charles, 105.

Charles B., 119.

King, Charles C., 111.

Horatio, 376, 377.

Mrs. Horatio, 377.

John W., 64.

Mrs. John W., 64, 150.

Preston, 178, 349.

Rufus, 4, 279.

Kingman, Eliab., 256, 272-274, 276.

Mrs. Eliab., 273.

Kneeland, Samuel F., 17.

Knox, John (1), 142.

John (2), 86, 180.

John, of Scotland, 86.

Kortright, Hester, 256.

Lawrence, 256.

Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 187, 246.

Kossuth, Louis, 156, 157.

Kourowski, Mr., 250.

Kunkel, Jacob M., 328.

Mrs. Jacob M., 328.

Kunze, Johann Christoff, 79.

Kuroki, General, 250.

Labitzky, Joseph, 167.

Lafayette, de, Marquis, 1, 239.

Lafitte, Jean, 207.

La Fontaine, Jean, 53.

Laight, Edward, 165.

Henry, 164.

Mrs. Henry, 164.

Lamb, Charles, 80.

Lane, Harriet, 285, 286.

James, 349.

Langdon, John, 74.

Louisa, 39.

Walter, 73, 74.

Mrs. Walter, 73, 74.

Lansdale, Philip, 304.

Latimer, C. R., 174.

Laughton, J. Scott, 233.

Lawrence, James, 134.

John Tharp, 362.

Mrs. John Tharp, 362.

Mrs. Julia A. K., 362, 363.

Leake, John G., 12, 116.

Leary, Anna, 36.

James, 35.

Lee, Mrs. Arthur, 340.

Fitzhugh, 383.

Frederick Graham, 118.

John, 262.

Mrs. John, 262.

Lee, John F., 368.

Mrs. John F., 368.

Mary, 265.

Mary Digges, 256.

Robert E., 121, 126, 188, 208, 212, 213, 314, 316, 327.

Samuel Phillips, 368.

Thomas Sim, 256, 262.

William, 174.

Mr., 281.

Leisler, Jacob, 131.

Lemoine, Ponty, 52.

Mrs. Ponty, 52.

L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 205.

Lenox, Robert, 49.

Lente, Frederick D., 118.

Mrs. Frederick D., 118.

Leopold I., 228.

LeRoy, Caroline, 117.

Charlotte, 117.

Herman, 12.

Jacob R., 111, 116, 117.

Susan, 112.

Mrs. William, 186.

Le Sage, Alain René, 66.

Leupp, Miss, 5.

Le Vert, Henry S., 371.

Mrs. Henry S., 370, 371.

Octavia Walton, 370.

Lewis, John Vaughan, 375.

Li Hung Chang, 306.

Lincoln, Abraham, 46, 208, 219, 220, 274, 342, 356, 384.

Ling Kein (Mandarin), 295, 296.

Lippincotts, the publishers, 335.

Lipton, Thomas, 167.

Lispenard, Alice, 13.

Livingston, Angelica, 38.

Estelle, 116, 166.

John Swift, 111, 116, 166, 167.

Johnston, 167.

Margaret, 120.

Maria, 166.

Mary, 167.

Maturin, 38, 167.

Mrs. Maturin, 167.

Peter Van Brough, 187.

Philip, 69, 101, 142.

Robert Edward, 64.

Robert R. (Chancellor), 120.

Robert R. (Judge), 120.

Susan, 187.

Lomax, Ann Corbin, 240.

Mann Page, 240, 241.

Virginia, 240.

Longfellow, Henry W., 13, 244.

Lord, Daniel, 137, 295.

Phoebe, 137.

Lorillard, Jacob, 79.

Mrs. Jacob, 79.

Julia, 79.

Louis XIV., 276, 389.

Louis XVI., 3.

Lowndes, William Jones, 279.

Ludlow, Augustus C., 134.

Mary, 134.

Thomas W., 111, 117.

Lumley-Savile, John, 228.

Luquer, Lynch, 82.

Nicholas, 82.

Mrs. Nicholas, 82.

Lynch, Adelaide, 24.

Anne C., 158.

Dominick, 53, 81, 82.

Mrs. Eugene H., 262.

Henry, 21.

James, 24.

John A., 331.

Mrs. John A., 331.

Mary, 21.

Lyon, James, 24, 201.

Macalister, Lily, 232.

Macfarland, Henry B. F., 357.

Mrs. Henry B. F., 357.

Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 91, 92, 93.

Macmaster, Anne, 111.

MacNeil, Elizabeth, 64, 255.

Fanny, 255.

John, 64, 255.

Macomb, Alexander, 163, 279, 363, 388.

Mrs. Alexander, 116.

Alexander S., 163, 165.

Mrs. Alexander S., 163-165.

Macready, William C., 82.

McAllister, Ward, 136, 276.

McClellan, George B., 200.

Lucy, 7.

McCorquodale, Mr., 168.

McCullough, John E., 364.

McDonnel, D. N., 34.

McElroy, John, 332.

Mrs. John E., 390.

McEvers, Charles, Jr., 111, 117.

Mary, 117, 166.

McGill, John Thomas, 326.

Mrs. John Thomas, 326.

McKay-Smith, Alexander, 374.

Mrs. Alexander, 374.

McKee, Joseph, 53.

McKim, Mr., 280.

McKnight, James, 216.

McLane, Allan, 358.

Anne, 358.

Mrs. John R., 364.

McLeod, Mr., 233.

Mrs., 233, 234.

McPherson, Mrs. John ("Fannie"), 328, 331, 332.

Robert G., 324.

Mrs. Robert G., 324.

McTavish, Alexander S., 105.

Charles Carroll, 103, 104, 106.

Mrs. Charles Carroll, 106, 107, 194.

Emily, 106.

Mary, 106.

Mary Wellesley, 106.

McVickar, John, 14.

M'Dougall, Peter, 142.

M'Gregor, John, 142.

Madison, James, 47, 72, 101, 138, 219, 241, 279, 282.

Mrs. James ("Dolly"), 47, 178, 197, 218, 219, 324.

Magruder, George A., 211.

Helen, 211.

John B., 182, 208-211.

Mahan, Alfred T., 123.

Dennis H., 123.

Maitland, Mr., of New York, 112.

Malibran, Madame, 81.

Manning, Daniel, 34.

Marble, Manton, 382.

Marcoleta, de, José, 235.

Marcy, Cornelia, 198, 266.

William L., 30, 138, 177, 178, 195, 198, 229, 266, 284.

Mrs. William L., 178, 266.

Marini, Lewis G., 373, 374.

Mariscal, Madame, 374.

Markoe, Francis S., 218.

Marlborough, Duke of, 154.

Duchess of, 154.

Marquand, Frederick, 35.

Henry G., 35.

Marshall, Emily, 274.

John, 279.

Marston, Nathaniel, 131.

Mrs. Nathaniel, 131.

Martin, Mr. (of Jamaica, N.Y.), 6.

Marvel, Ik, 159.

Marx, Henry Carroll, 161.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 86.

Mason, Betty, 212.

Emily Virginia, 212, 213, 257.

Florence, 212.

James M., 212.

John, 153, 154.

John M., 142.

John T., 212.

Matilda, 212.

Miss, of New York, 112.

Stevens Thompson, 212.

Mrs. Thomson F. ("Colross"), 212.

Masters, Josiah, 64.

Masters, Margaret, 64.

Maulsby, William P., 328.

Mrs. William P., 328.

Maury, Matthew F., 207-210.

Mrs. Matthew F., 208.

Maximilian, Archduke, 208, 278, 370.

Maxwell, Charles Duval, 369.

Hugh, 44, 265.

Maynadier, William, 363.

Mrs. William ("Sallie"), 362, 363.

Maynard, Edward, 196.

Mayo, Edward, 105.

Mrs. Edward, 105.

John, 180, 181.

Mrs. John, 180.

Maria D., 180, 181.

Robert, 188, 189, 191, 192.

William Starbuck, 188.

Mrs. William Starbuck, 188.

Meade, George G., 316.

Richard W., 120.

Medhurst, Walter H., 293, 303.

Meikleham, David Scott, 357.

Mrs. David Scott (Septimia Randolph), 357.

Mercer, William Swann, 215.

Mrs. William Swan, 215.

Meredith, Emma, 238, 239.

Jonathan, 238.

Messinger, Daniel, 167, 168.

Mrs. Daniel, 168.

Messinger, Thomas H., 167.

Milledoler, Philip, 180.

Miller, Charles Dudley, 150.

Mrs. Charles Dudley, 150.

Thomas, 255.

Mrs. Thomas, 255.

William Starr, 111, 117.

Mills, Clark, 244.

Milne, Mr., 293, 302.

Mimmack, Bernard P., 359.

Mrs. Bernard P., 359.

Minus, Hetty, 98.

Philippa, 98.

Mitchell, Donald G., 159.

S. Weir, 373.

Samuel L., 10.

Moffette, Margaret, 199.

Monroe, Bettie, 265.

Columbus, 214.

Eliza, 29, 258.

Fannie, 114, 262.

James, 29, 44, 77, 101, 108, 109, 123, 142, 174, 177, 206, 213, 215,

256, 257, 263, 264, 267, 276, 279, 282, 285, 317, 332, 335, 357,

363, 366, 379, 380.

Mrs. James, 77, 258, 264.

James (nephew of President), 114.

Mrs. James, 111, 114.

Maria Hester, 256-258, 363.

Mr. 281.

Montauban, Charles, 307.

Montgomery, Richard, 120.

Mrs. Richard, 120.

Moore, Benjamin, 10, 102, 130.

Clement C., 105, 130, 131.

Maria Theresa, 102.

Theresa, 105.

Thomas, 81.

William (1), 130, 185.

William (2), 130.

Mrs. William (2), 130.

Mordecai, Alfred, 125.

Morgan, John Hunt, 319.

Mr., 281.

Morpeth, Lord, 146.

Morris, Charles, 200, 279.

Charles W., 93.

Charlotte, 120.

Emily, 39.

Gouverneur (1), 226, 307, 380.

Morris, Mrs. Gouverneur (1), 226.

Gouverneur (2), 165.

James, 120.

Lewis, 226.

Rebecca, 369.

Robert, 38, 313.

Roger, 131.

Mrs. Roger, 131.

Sarah, 52.

Thomas, 30, 38, 39, 93.

Mrs. Thomas, 39.

Mr., of New York, 112.

Mosby, John S., 319.

Motley, John Lothrop, 171.

Mott, Valentine, 83.

Munro, John, 142.

Seaton, 275, 276, 373.

Murray, Charles Augustus, 141.

Mrs. Charles Augustus, 141.

John (Lord Dunmore), 141.

Virginia, 142.

Murat, Achillé, 337.

Madame Achillé, 337, 338, 339.

Joachim, 337.

Muse, William S., 386.

Myers, Theodorus Bailey, 392.

Napier, Lord, 276.

Napoleon I., 337, 338.

III., 209, 258, 278, 307, 338.

Nau, Madame, 51.

Neil, Robert Elkin, 367.

Mrs. Robert Elkin, 367.

Neilson, Anthony Bleecker, 155, 168.

Bleecker, 155.

Elizabeth Coles, 168.

William, 155.

Newcomb, Simon, 360.

Newell, George, 178, 229.

Nicholas I., of Russia, 78.

Nicholson, Mrs. Augustus S., 258.

Niemcewicz, Julian, 187.

Ning Ping (a Chinese servant), 295-297.

Noah, Mordecai Manasseh, 46.

Norris, Basil, 363.

William H., 92.

Norton, John Hatley, 370.

Mrs. John Hatley (Louisa Key), 370.

Nott, Eliphalet (1), 305.

Eliphalet (2), 305.

Mrs. Eliphalet (2), 305.

Nourse, Charles J. (1), 118, 271.

Charles J. (2), 271.

Charles Josephus, 369.

Mrs. Charles Josephus, 369.

O'Brien, Lucius, 121, 122.

O'Conor, Charles, 52, 59, 60, 83, 92, 153, 334.

O'Donnell, Charles Oliver, 314.

Mrs. Charles Oliver, 314.

Columbus, 314.

O'Neal, Peggy, 359.

O'Neill, Ellen Elizabeth, 218.

Rose, 218.

O'Sullivan, John L., 48.

Ogilvie, John, 131.

Mrs. John, 131.

Olcott, Mrs. J. Van Vechten, 269.

Oliver, Emily, 102.

Robert Shaw, 367.

Mrs. Robert Shaw, 367.

"Olyphant and Company," 155, 292.

Olyphant, Robert Morrison, 292.

Mrs. Robert Morrison, 292.

Onderdonk, Benjamin T., 371.

Henry M., 371.

Mrs. Henry M., 371.

Justine Bibby, 371.

Opie, Mrs. Amelia, 66.

Orleans, Duke of, 39.

Ossoli, Giovanni Angelo, 158.

The Marchionesse, 158.

Otis, Harrison Gray, 111, 274, 279.

Mrs. Harrison Gray, 274.

James W., 60, 111.

Miss, of New York, 112.

Sally, 60, 111.

Owen, John, 2.

Sarah, 2.

Paganini, Nicolo, 196.

Paine, "Dolly," 219.

Frederick H., 386.

Thomas, 379, 380.

Todd, 219.

Palmer, Aulick, 387.

Frances Hailes, 188.

Innis N., 121.

Palmer, James S., 266.

Palmerston, Lord, 227.

Paris, de, Comte, 25.

Parker, Mrs. Charles Maverick, 155.

Theodore, 158.

Parmly, Eleazer, 28.

Parrott, Robert P., 119, 125-127.

Mrs. Robert P., 119, 124, 126, 268.

Parsons, William H., 309.

Mrs. William H., 309.

Partington, Ike, 277.

Mrs., 277.

Patterson, Carlisle P., 204.

Mrs. Carlisle P., 204, 214.

Daniel T., 207.

Miss, 374.

Patton, John B., 220.

Mrs. John B., 220.

Paulding, James K., 119, 129.

Pauline, Princess, 338.

Payne, Thatcher T., 53.

Peabody, Andrew P., 171.

Elizabeth P., 158.

Pearson, Anna, 214.

Eliza, 204.

Joseph, 204.

Josephine, 204, 214.

Pegram, George Herbert, 183.

Pelikao, de, Comte, 307.

Pemberton, Mr., 290.

Pendleton, Edmund, 111.

Mrs. Edmund, 266.

Edward, 238.

Mrs. Edward, 238.

John, 185, 186.

Penniman, James F., 36.

Pennington, Mary, 96.

William, 96.

Perkins, Hamilton, 373.

Perry, Augustus, 175.

Caroline Slidell, 95, 165.

Matthew C., 95.

Mrs. Matthew C., 95.

Sarah, 165.

Thomas, 175.

Pettigru, James L., 98.

Mrs. James L., 98.

Phelps, Seth Ledyard, 376.

Philip, Mrs. William Henry, 389.

Philippe, Louis, 39, 51, 78, 83.

Philips, Frederick, 130, 131.

Mary, 130.

Philipse, Adolphus, 131.

Catharine Wadsworth, 131.

Frederick, 130, 131, 268, 269.

Mrs. Frederick, 131.

Margaret, 131.

Margaret Gouverneur, 131.

Mary, 131.

Philip, 131.

Mrs. Philip, 131.

Phillips, Elizabeth, 389.

Philip, 221.

Mrs. Philip, 221, 222.

Wendell, 99, 171, 172, 251.

Phoenix, John, 282.

Picken, Andrew, 8, 9.

Mrs. Andrew, 9.

Pickering, Timothy, 57.

Picot, Mr., of New York, 112.

Pierce, Franklin, 102, 103, 171, 195, 227, 251, 252, 255, 286.

Mrs. Franklin, 255.

Martha, 63.

Sarah, 4.

The Misses, 280, 282.

Pierpont, John, 377.

Pierrepont, Edwards, 342.

Pike, Albert, 371.

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 100.

Thomas, 100.

Mrs. Thomas, 100.

Pise, Charles Constantine, 88, 89.

Pleasanton, Mr., 281.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 14, 64.

Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 100.

Mrs. Joel Roberts, 100.

Polk, James K., 138, 171, 177, 182, 195, 372.

Mrs. James K., 182.

Poore, Ben Perley, 272, 276.

Pope, Alexander, 80.

Porter, Andrew, 220.

Mrs. Andrew, 220.

David, 259, 279.

David D., 174, 207, 259.

John K., 390.

Post, Catharine Wadsworth, 131.

Potter, Chandler E., 255.

Mrs. Chandler E., 255.

Potts, George, 328.

Richard M., 328.

Powell, Thomas, 134.

Mrs. Thomas, 134.

Powers, Hiram, 197.

Preston, Wickliffe, 370.

Price, Cicero, 154.

Lilly Warren, 154.

Stephen, 81, 82, 95.

Proctor, Redfield, 355.

"Purden and Company," 290.

Pyne, Smith, 195, 196, 265.

Raasloff, Waldemar Rudolph, 235, 248.

Racine, Jean, 29.

Rainsford, Mr., 185.

Ramsay, Francis M., 282.

George Douglas, 214, 231, 235, 236, 281, 282.

Mrs. George Douglas, 214.

Randall, Thomas, 339.

Randolph, Anne Cary, 226.

Thomas Jefferson, 352.

Thomas Mann, 357.

Mrs. Thomas Mann, 357.

Rantoul, Robert, 245.

Rathbone, Julia, 367.

Ray, Cornelia, 105.

Robert, 105.

Mrs. Robert, 105.

Raymond, Henry J., 46.

Read, George, 183.

John Meredith, 183.

Redfern, Joseph, 176.

Reid, George C., 386.

Whitelaw, 352.

Relf, Richard, 58.

Remington, Mrs. Thomas Pym, 186.

Renwick, James, 14, 15, 21.

Mrs. James, 21.

Jane Jeffrey, 21.

William, 112, 142.

Reynolds, Joshua, 80.

Rhett, Charles H., 212.

Mrs. Charles H., 212.

Thomas G., 212.

Mrs. Thomas G., 212.

Richardson, Samuel, 66.

William, 326, 327.

William A., 361, 365.

Mrs. William A., 361, 365.

Richie, Lady, 129.

Ricketts, Mrs. Frances Lawrence, 361-363.

Ricketts, James B., 361.

Riggs, George W., 353.

Ringgold, Tench, 215.

Ripley, George, 158.

Ritchie, John, 326, 328.

Mrs. John, 326, 328.

Thomas, 171.

Rives, William C., 38.

Mrs. William C., 38.

Robertson, Beverly H., 319.

Robeson, George M., 232, 361.

Mrs. George M., 361, 374.

Robespierre, M. M. I., 380.

Robinson, Douglas, 114, 262.

Mrs. Douglas, 262.

Rochambeau, de, Count, 371.

Roche, Regina M., 67.

Rockwell, Almon F., 355.

Mrs. Almon F., 355.

Rodgers, C. R. P., 95.

Mrs. C. R. P., 95.

John, 279.

Robert S., 165.

Mrs. Robert S., 165.

Rodney, George B., 1.

Roe, Emily Maria, 133.

Francis A., 346, 392.

Mrs. Francis A., 392.

Mary Elizabeth, 133.

Thomas Hazard, 133.

William, 132.

Mrs. William, 132.

Rogers, John Leverett, 64.

Mrs. John Leverett, 64, 185.

Roothan, John, 61.

Ross, Fanny McPherson, 332.

Mrs. Worthington, 328, 332.

Roulet, Mr., of New York, 52.

Ruggles, Samuel B., 65, 144.

Rumpff, Vincent, 75.

The Countess, 75.

Rush, Benjamin, 279.

"Russell and Company," 302.

Russell, Ida, 266, 267.

Ruturfurde (Rutherford), Walter, 142.

Sairs, Mrs. Deborah, 96.

Salles, Laurent, 118, 282.

Louise Stephanie, 118.

Sandidge, John M., 277.

Sands, Robert C., 45.

Sanford, Henry, 244.

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez, 200, 201.

Madame Antonio Lopez, 374.

Saracco, Pierro, 135.

Sartiges, de, Eugène, 223, 224, 229.

The Comtesse, 229.

Sartoris, Algernon, 356.

Savage, John, 273.

Joseph, 176.

Savile, Baron, 228.

Savile-Lumley, John, 228.

Sayre, Mrs. Isaac, 37.

Scarborough, Earl of, 228.

Scarlett, James York MacGregor, 211.

Schenck, James F., 301, 303.

Schenley, Edward W. H., 233, 234.

Schermerhorn, Abraham, 111.

Schley, Fairfax, 328.

Mrs. Fairfax, 328.

Winfield Scott, 391, 392.

Schmidt, John William, 78.

Mrs. John William, 78.

Julia, 78.

Schomberg, Emily, 286.

Schroeder, Francis, 275.

Mrs. Francis, 275.

Seaton, 275.

Schurz, Carl, 352.

Schuyler, Mrs. Eugene, 46.

Philip, 117.

Scott, Adeline Camilla, 186, 196.

Cornelia, 104, 180, 183, 184, 187, 194, 212.

Henry Lee, 105, 183, 194.

Mrs. Henry Lee, 194.

Marcella ("Ella"), 103, 104, 194.

Robert N., 357.

Mrs. Robert N., 357.

Virginia, 61-63, 106.

Walter, 80, 176, 357, 363.

Winfield, 61, 62, 103-105, 114, 122-124, 126, 134, 180, 181, 184,

186-188, 193-203, 205, 211, 238, 256, 265, 279, 286, 329, 349, 363.

Mrs. Winfield, 103, 105-107, 114, 160, 170, 180-184, 187, 188, 193,

194, 197, 201, 211.

Scoville, George M., 390.

Seabury, Samuel, 60.

Mrs. Samuel, 60.

Seaton, Caroline, 275.

Gales, 275.

William Winston, 275.

Mrs. William Winston, 259.

Sedgwick, Mr., of New York, 112.

Selkirk, Alexander, 66.

Semmes, J. Harrison, 176.

Seth, Margaret Chatham, 119, 271.

Sevigné, de, Madame, 179.

Seward, Olive Risley, 376.

William H., 12, 174, 247, 248, 272.

Seymour, Charles, 17.

Horatio, 149, 361.

Shakespeare, William, 19, 71, 84.

Sharp, Alexander (1), 355, 356.

Mrs. Alexander (1), 355, 356.

Alexander (2), 355.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 65.

Shelton, Helen K., 82.

Shepherd, Alexander R., 353, 354.

Sherman, William T., 313, 335, 350.

Shiff, Eugene, 156.

Shillaber, Benjamin P., 277.

Shriver, Edward, 314.

Shubrick, William B., 372.

Mrs. William B., 372.

Shuster, William M., 175.

Sinclair, John, 83.

Skidmore, Lemuel, 23.

Martha, 23.

Slidell, Jane, 95.

John (1), 58, 94, 95.

John (2), 91, 93-95.

Julia, 95.

"Slidell, John, Jr., and Company," 95.

Sloane, Samuel, 303.

Mrs. Samuel, 303.

William, 302, 303.

Small, Elisha, 91.

Smith, Augustine, 185.

Captain, 288, 291.

Edmund Hamilton, 375.

Mrs. Edmund Hamilton, 375.

Elizabeth, 150.

Gerrit, 150.

Mrs. Gerrit, 150.

Mrs. Hamilton, 370.

Mrs. Henrietta, 56.

Mrs. Henry William, 134.

James C., 375.

Mrs. Nathaniel, 146.

Snead, Augustine, 385, 386.

Mrs. Fayette, 386.

Somerville, William C., 182.

Southard, Samuel L., 44, 279.

Virginia E., 44.

Spaulding, James Reed, 46.

Speed, James, 343-345, 347, 348.

Spencer, John C., 91, 92.

Philip, 91, 92, 93.

Spinner, Francis E., 218.

Sprigg, Samuel, 215.

Stanard, Robert Craig, 63.

Mrs. Robert Craig, 63, 64, 346.

Stark, John, 74.

Starkey, Thomas Alfred, 367.

Mrs. Thomas Alfred, 367.

Stephens, Alexander H., 222, 223.

Steptoe, Ann, 324.

Steuart, Adam Duncan, 164.

Mrs. Adam Duncan, 163, 164.

Steuben, Frederick William, 94.

Stevens, John Austin, 146.

Mrs. John Austin, 146.

John C., 166, 167.

Mrs. John C., 166.

Lucretia Ledyard, 146.

Stewart, Alexander T., 35.

Campbell F., 180.

Charles, 279.

Lispenard, 118.

Mrs. Lispenard, 118.

William M., 388.

Mrs. William M., 388.

St. Memin, de, Comtesse, 51.

Stockton, Francis B., 216.

Mrs. Francis B., 216.

Robert F., 373.

Story, Joseph, 279.

Stout, Edward C., 169.

Jacob, 75.

Julia, 169.

Minnie, 169.

Strauss, Johann, 167.

Strong, George W., 153.

Henry, 378.

William, 368.

Strother, Sally, 242, 243, 265.

Stuart, Alexander, 37.

David, 236.

Gilbert, 131.

James, 142.

Robert L., 37.

Virginia, 374.

"Stuart, R. L. and A.," 37.

Stubs, Alfred, 87.

Stuyvesant, Helen, 188.

Nicholas William, 188.

Peter G., 188.

Sullivan, George, 282.

Mrs. George, 280, 282.

James, 282.

Sultan of Zanzibar, 304.

Sumner, Charles, 178, 198, 241-244, 246, 247, 265.

George, 245.

Horace, 158.

Surratt, Anna, 348.

Mrs. Mary E., 342-344, 348.

Suydam, Hendrick, 3.

Swearingen, Mrs. Sarah Henderson, 385.

Swift, Dean, 80.

Syng, William F., 214.

Mrs. William F., 214.

Taglioni, Maria, 86.

Tallmadge, Frederick S., 144.

Mrs. Frederick S., 144.

James, 78.

Mary, 78.

Taney, Roger B., 218, 333, 334.

Tardy, l'Abbé, 9.

Target, F., 381.

Tasistro, Louis Fitzgerald, 24, 25, 26.

Mrs. Louis Fitzgerald, 24.

Tayloe, Anne, 236.

Benjamin Ogle, 235, 281, 282.

Mrs. Benjamin Ogle, 47.

John, 235.

Virginia, 236.

Taylor, Franck, 176.

Henry C., 176.

Zachary, 122, 152, 233.

Tellkampf, John Louis, 17.

Tenney, William I., 35.

Thackeray, Anne Isabella, 129.

William M., 64, 128, 129, 245.

Thayer, John E., 139.

Mrs. John E., 139.

Thomas, George H., 216.

Mrs. George H., 216.

Mr., 281.

Philip F., 315-317.

Thomson, Alexander, 142.

Thompson, Smith, 279, 332.

Thorburn, Grant, 19.

Thorndike, Anna, 229.

Thorne, Herman, 78.

Mrs. Herman, 78.

Thornton, Edward, 374.

Lady Edward, 374.

Jane Washington Augusta, 387.

John, 387.

William, 236.

Tilden, Samuel J., 178, 382.

Tillary, James, 142.

Tillotson, Robert Livingston, 120, 267.

Thomas, 120.

Mrs. Thomas, 120.

Timberlake, John B., 359.

Mrs. John B., 296, 297.

Ting Ting (Chinese cook), 296, 297.

Tittmann, Otto H., 387.

Mrs. Otto H., 387.

Tocqueville, de, Alexis, 245.

Todd, Laurie, 20.

Toler, Hugh A., 96.

Mrs. Hugh A., 96.

Tothammer, Gubriel, 48.

Toutant, Elodie, 54, 58.

Tracy, Benjamin F., 274.

Trail, Charles E., 328.

Mrs. Charles E., 328, 341.

Travers, William R., 137.

Trist, Nicholas P., 359.

Trumbull, Lyman, 352.

Tuckerman, Bayard, 34.

Mrs. Lucius, 4.

Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 146.

Turnbull, George, 142.

William, 195, 214.

Mrs. William, 214.

Turner, Thomas, 186, 188.

Mrs. Thomas, 188.

Tuyll, de, Theodore, 279.

Twain, Mark, 392.

Tyler, Elizabeth, 260.

John, 91, 94, 252-254, 260.

Robert, 94.

Mrs. Robert, 94.

Tyng, Stephen H. (1), 87.

Stephen H. (2), 87.

Ulrich, Mrs. Hannah, 176, 231.

Upshur, John H., 265.

Mrs. John H., 265.

Van Amringe, John Howard, 185.

Van Buren, Abraham, 189.

Anna Vander Poel, 84.

John, 32, 33, 83, 84, 192.

Martin, 30-32, 69, 70, 100, 119, 124, 130, 161, 165, 188, 189, 192,

193, 251, 268, 282, 382, 390.

Smith, 192.

Van Cortlandt, Augustus, 267.

Mrs. Augustus, 267.

Van Hoesen, George M., 18.

Van Rensselaer, Frank, 185.

Mrs. John King, 15, 132.

Philip S., 78.

Mrs. Philip S., 78.

Van Karnabeek, A. P. C., 232.

Van Ness, John P., 224.

Vail, Aaron, 281, 282.

David M., 269.

Eleanor Louisa, 269.

Eugene, 281, 282.

Mrs. Eugene, 282.

Vance, Mrs. Zebulon B., 347.

Vanden Heuvel, Mrs. Charles, 313.

John C., 22, 36.

Justine, 36.

Susan Annette, 21, 36.

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 110.

Vandeventer, Mr., 280.

Vandyke, Anthony, 268.

Varela, Felix, 89.

Vermilye, Thomas E., 180.

Vernon, Anna O., 292.

The Misses, 335.

Verplanck, Mrs. David Johnstone, 270.

Gulian C., 30, 44, 45.

Louisa Verplanck, 271.

Verren, Antoine, 90.

Vertner, Rosa, 370.

Victoria, Queen, 83, 84, 117, 139, 140.

Villars, Marechal, 325.

Vincent, Thomas N., 387.

Vinton, Samuel Finley, 377.

Vivans, Louis, 175.

Voltaire, François M. A., 65.

Waddell, James J., 303, 304.

Waddington, Madam Kate King, 46.

Wadsworth, Elizabeth, 141.

James, 141.

James S., 141.

Wainwright, Henrietta, 214.

Richard, 214.

Robert D., 214.

Mrs. Robert D., 214.

Walbach, John DeBarth, 304.

John J. B., 304.

Walker, George, 67.

Wallace, Susan, 183, 184.

Wallis, Severn Teackle, 315.

Walton, George (1), 371.

George (2), 371.

Octavia, 371.

Ward, Artemus, 151, 282.

Elijah, 374.

Mrs. Elijah, 374.

Samuel, 53.

Mrs. Samuel, 53.

Warfield, Miss, 374.

Warner, Charles Dudley, 160.

Warrington, Lewis, 279.

Washington, Anna Louisa, 387.

Bushrod, 279.

George, 57, 74, 76, 131, 146, 147, 152, 162, 198, 236, 243, 267, 324,

332, 337, 370, 377, 379, 380, 387.

Littleton Quinton, 287.

Lund, 286.

Milicent, 324.

Peter Grayson, 266, 286, 287.

Samuel, 324.

Watson, Andrew J., 169.

Watts, Elizabeth, 164.

Essex, 165.

John, 12, 116, 163, 164.

Mary Justina, 164.

Ridley, 165.

Robert, 116, 164.

Susanna, 164.

Wayne, Henry C., 214.

Mrs. Henry C., 214.

James M., 214.

Webb, Catharine Louisa, 46.

James Watson, 36, 46.

Webb, William Seward, 46.

Webster, Daniel, 36, 117, 241, 245, 247, 279, 281.

Weir, Robert S., 324.

Mrs. Robert S., 324.

Robert W., 123, 126.

Weller, George J., 308.

Sam, 100.

Wellesley, Marquis of, 106.

Marchionesse of, 106.

Wellington, Duke of, 64, 194.

West, Mary, 235.

Wetmore, Prosper M., 257.

Wheatley, Emma, 153.

White, Augusta, 267.

Joseph M., 56.

Whitten, Miss, of New York, 112.

Whittier, John G., 125, 245, 327.

Wickliffe, Margaret Anderson, 342.

Wight, Ann G., 224.

Wikoff, Chevalier Henry, 85.

Wilcox, John A., 358.

Mrs. John A., 358, 359.

Mrs. Mary Donelson, 358.

Wilde, Oscar, 358.

Wilkes, Charles, 21, 91.

Mrs. Charles, 21.

Wilkins, Gouverneur, 226.

Martin, 112.

Wilks, Mrs. Matthew, 74.

Willard, Caleb, 176.

William, King of Prussia, 231.

Williams, Eleazer, 250.

Robert, 220.

Mrs. Robert, 220.

S. Wells, 288.

Thomas, 105.

Mrs. William Wilberforce, 367.

Willing, Mrs. Thomas M., 97.

Willis, N. P., 159-161, 337, 356.

Mrs. N. P., 160.

Williston, Ralph, 74.

Wilson, George T., 15, 132.

Mrs. George T., 15, 132.

William, 217.

Winans, Beatrice, 231.

Ross, 231.

Winthrop, Henry R., 72.

Mrs. Henry R., 60, 72.

Mrs. John Still, 73, 145, 146, 335, 336.

John S., Jr., 146.

Robert C., 99, 139.

Mrs. Robert C., 99, 139, 141.

Sarah Bowdoin, 282.

Wirt, William, 279.

Wise, Henry A., 109.

Wolcott, Oliver (1), 147.

Oliver (2), 4, 147, 313, 379.

Wolfe, Udolpho, 109.

Wood, Nina, 233.

Silas, 64.

Virginia Beverly, 64, 185.

Woodhull, Maxwell, 214.

Mrs. Maxwell, 214.

Worthington, Mrs. Charles, 224.

Eliza, 389.

Mrs. John Griffith, 389.

Wright, Edward, 266.

Katharine Maria, 213, 266.

Silas, 349.

William, 213.

Wyndham, Earl of, 9.

Xavier, Francis, 297.

Young, Notley, 236.

Yturbide, de, Madame Alice, 370.

de, Angelo, 370.

de, Augustine, 370.

Zeilin, Jacob, 386.

Miss, 374.

William F., 386.

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| Transcriber's Notes |

| |

| Page 7: Comberland amended to Cumberland |

| Page 11: distingushed amended to distinguished; Semminaries |

| _sic_ |

| Page 29: Hayti _sic_ |

| Page 52: Berault amended to Bérault |

| Page 53: Venitian _sic_ |

| Page 75: Tuilleries amended to Tuileries |

| Page 76: racoon _sic_ |

| Page 80: "home Gouverneur Kemble" _sic_ |

| Page 93: dintinguished amended to distinguished |

| Page 123: eariler amended to earlier |

| Page 129: editon amended to edition |

| Page 155: strongely amended to strongly |

| Page 157: unsually amended to unusually; it amended to its |

| ("Brook Farm had its origin....") |

| Page 185: Angustine amended to Augustine |

| Page 186: Bucknor's _sic_ |

| Page 227: Palmerson amended to Palmerston |

| Page 229: Goeffrey Boilleau amended to Geoffrey Boilleau |

| Page 240: Fort Sumpter _sic_ |

| Page 244: Belguim amended to Belgium |

| Page 323: comanding amended to commanding |

| Page 372: Audenried amended to Audenreid |

| Page 380: af amended to of ("spirit of acrimony") |

| Page 384: intercouse amended to intercourse |

| Page 395: Alfonzo amended to Alfonso |

| Page 396: Beaujoir amended to Beaujour; Giuseppi amended to |

| Giuseppe |

| Page 398: Index entry for Mr. and Mrs. Titian T. Coffey |

| removed and replaced by index entry for Mr. and Mrs. Titian |

| J. Coffey. |

| Page 399: Daponte amended to Da Ponte |

| Page 405: Everiste amended to Evariste; Kantzou amended to |

| Kantzow |

| Page 408: Marquard amended to Marquand; Isaiah Masten |

| amended to Josiah Masters |

| Page 409: Lathrop amended to Lothrop |

| Page 410: Palmerson amended to Palmerston |

| Page 414: Thackaray amended to Thackeray |

| Page 415: Louis Vavans (p. 175) has been indexed as Louis |

| Vivans. |

| |

| Hyphenation has generally been standardized. However, when a |

| word appears hyphenated and unhyphenated an equal number of |

| times, both versions have been retained (churchyard/ |

| church-yard; earrings/ear-rings; housewarming/house-warming; |

| lifelong/life-long; midday/mid-day; stateroom/state-room; |

| transcontinental/trans-continental; warships/war-ships). |

| |

| Accented letters have generally been standardized, unless |

| different versions of the word appear an equal number of |

| times (cortege/cortège; resistance/résistance). |

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