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■ % ■ . ; , i y w / - M m m . [r, . f-;.j , i-ij: * / - ■ . . ; • ’ • ■■■ * . ’; . ' •/, ■* , v:v ' It is with conaidoribla reluctance that I an yielding *
to the lnnur.orablo requests cade of r_o# for a nunber of years '
I^y hesitation in the ratter is duo partly to tho fact
that for mny years of cy life I was so interacted In fcnran
nature end in finding out tho workings of the Kinds of thoso - - - •’ . ’ i . j - " v--£" £•* V* v. ' v .T -h -’ * persona of interact when I e» t In one country or another
particularly during my long period In tho eervioo of tho Katlcu , >- .
as a diplomatist, whilo nevor taking ryself seriously or as In
any way an interesting person* Eo that I not only failed to
keep a diary , but oven destroyed cany records In tho wuy of
notes, letters of other memoranda which night now have been use
ful for the purpose in question* It is also due to tho further
fact that I do not consider myself gifted with euoh literary
ability as is likoly to rake such personal memoirs interesting*
I was born in tha City of Baltimore, on tho twenty- * t ninth day of Inarch, 1050, in an old colonial house on tho corner
of Fayotto and Holliday Streets, which had belonged to Ey g re a t— ~ grandfather rhlte, end la which hi* son» Ecnrjr • By grundfa-ther • J . ‘ _ * - ; . - . ; - • .* ‘ *.«•:•% • ' " “v• - - ’ '• • ^: •• ; ' • . - , and a baobolor brother of his, twelve year» oldor, ,Tohn Tihlte, ... *...... ■ • - . . ' ; , ' :.o Y-y •- as wall a* try fathar fend Bother lived« The house, of which a , '•' -Y : - • * - • rf- . - • - . • , ...... ■ photograph fortunately ha» boon preserved, was sold and pulled .• ' - ■ ' ' ■ ' - •’ * \ ’ ' • down in 1659* to cakek*» Ml«way forfni f.Vi*ths presentnrfldrrtf C City .lt-v KflllBall of Baltlcorat T . • • . . *•- ^
^y father was John Canpbe 11 Tihlte, eon of B@nrÿ and ' '• v :A- • -•' • v • r*S T..- ■ • f ¿ 5;.* - Mary LeBoy Phi to , and By Bother .«as Elisa Ridgely# the daughter ■ w" . . . • •- / > - . . -VVx . % 1 of John Rid rely of Buapton, S tiy father** fhnlly was originally rrw j.i • * •;-* . % ■; V : g • % ■ : '• from Soot land, but resident, for several generations before ay . . ' • • g •• V. V-• •' ■ . ■ ■ ‘ r ' • * : — - ./> .V . -• . Y ■. • - ■ "- great-grandfather earae to this oountry In the lfest years of the
18th oontury, In tbs north of Ireland« I have always understood v '•j -- V that cy groat-grandfather *s forbe&rs for one, two or pertops
three generations h’id boon Prcsbjteri&n olerQTcn« great
grandfather T.hlte beefena involved In what Is generally known
In hictory c.s tha Irieh Rebellion of 1V98* Be was lnprls4n®d
fo r* a tine lh Dublin Caetle, trhoro the finally tr&ditlon Is that ‘ ; ! \ ■■ ' ‘ ... i • •••- -^r. Î -. -»• - be was very well treated, and shortly after his release - * *
probably indeed as a result of his connection with the "Rebellion", • : - - • 'v- :■ „ v ■ ho emigrated - about the sans tJLra as his friend Alexander .
: ' ' • - •. . ■ Brovn of Ballynena, no&r Bolffest - to the United States and ; V
having been blind for a nunber ©f ye^rs previously* Alexander .-J'- - T
- 2 - Brcm founded the S^nk at Baltimore, under tha nnaa of Alcrsndor ... • ■ ' ' • - „ ", * ■ ' •* \ • ■ -A-. .. -1 ‘Jfetesji t * * • Ercjtm and Eon», which exists to thl» day, end three of hit #on»#
JC. v * :» -• * , ' _• . «1 - c -v. “■ _ . » . ;• - -i — ■ * - /* V *- Ii< r- John, TTillitB end ¿acm* George, who wore contemporaries do re or^ • • . • •. • . ■. . . - . • ,, \ - ckr. - • . ■ V • ' ' ." ■ / ‘ *i • _• / V iase o f cry grandfather end unole Henry end John SThlto. subsequent- ‘ > .... ■, yV . .j r ■ y -A-..- - • . - ■ - • - • 1 - - ■ ■ -* • ~ i, "^T . / & • •v .•> i l y founded bank» at Philadelphia, Liverpool and Haw Yorfc# respectively*
In connection with wy great-grandfather*» Incarceration ¿■r v1
nearly a hundred year« afterward» I wa» a ruaet — v— ^ ■ , ■ V ', . " . B • V • .. - • of Buooossivo lord» - Lieutenant Ireland (Lord» Cftdogan, Dudley*
Aberdeen, Londonderry) being also tha official representative In r. -'--. ^
Great Britain of the United State», I endeavored to ascertain In .. ' ■
what part of the Castle the roon# »ere, In which the politloal
prisoners of 179S hid been oonflnodj but they bad long sinoe die-
appeared, and no one connected with the Povernnant of Ireland at
that tiro seoned to know oven where they had beenj extenelve -
alteration» having boon mode on several ooo&olon» , In the Castle* -:'Z' ‘ ' '-?■ ** • - V.-'- • ' • ‘ ' ■■ • -* •• ' ' • V < ' V • : -, . “ ' - ; ’ -■ ' - . - ' •*' * ~ ' ' • ■ • • - :- ' V A * ' * - . • , Bother1» fanily, the Kldgely» of Haapton, oane froa ,
England, eoc» of then at least from Lincolnshire, but of the . * - ' • - - . ’ "V . w-v - ‘ - v iN " •- -et plaoe In rhloh they lived in England no very accurate aocount . .j- . : ’ i* . .. - \ seen» to have been kept* ’ : t - ", ■ - ■>
^ (Eupplemnt i) ■ • l-# % W & ' ‘ ' M t v The flrot Rldgely who oane to this country landed at ‘ J • • ; 1 f . .... 5 '• . ‘ \ ' l x- 3 V *4f*í : Et» Inigo*» Creak in b cuthern Liryîand, and took up estates there, v:" V •: ? . ' *y-;i ■*-•- , ‘Vv • :V .*■ r YJ - rf-J-l • v - ..■ * V ' i i / / . . r * • • V • • t ‘ . ¿%gf ' ' *-
ship which s&de expeditions to distant land»* Hi* portrait hang» ¿ /-•
big house, there «a* an older one in which the farJly : . ... . -■ ~r- ■'? •*. . -V.V'=^ :■ ‘ - v ■ * -■ , : • X. -- i • - which ie » till standing, - an interesting speolssn of eights ¿nth. Z:- -Yt.-Y ’ . ■ - •■ , •- • • • * • ' * • • < century construction*/. It ins been known throughout cy life a*
the Lower Bouse , boing s till surrounded by the barns, stables,
and the bouses, known In slavery days, as the "Fsgro Quarter"*
ThU "lover house", and core particularly the barns, stables, i} Jjr4 - "■ -v'r ■ Y''Y . r " 1, ' z - Y ' wagon and carriage houses and sheds by which it is s till
surrounded - was always an interesting objoct for expedition» • \ . ■ i ,.'c ' . . • •' ■ •’ • ; . • »■(■ • ~ ‘ on the part of nyeelf, sy brother end cousin» during our youthful « >- ^>-. 4- . ¿ i f ■' - Y\-^-Y-.v’’ . . year»* . - r ■ ■ / £ . - 4 ^/,: • ** . ' . i , ■ •: ? * & $ ' - . . "-Y: * Y.: • (Supplaoont 2) *•
/. lÿ grandrsothor, Klita Eidgoly, ‘of another branoh of that v ‘ : lO --- .*" l. - -,c* •.>.** ' ■ . 4* .* _. «'» V-* . * » ->• ' r- «•* »* ^jw * re c o lle c tio n * Ebo * m very fond of ca, tad Z hive etnas ronllsod •j - y-;*'" t in t e ho end I h?*4 racy tastes in ooesdc • notably a fondness for -'
our fallow oresiturci - otherwise "Society*» Op to the tL eo o f . - ; .. - «*•*— ■ i .- -- rr\ - * 2= •• -",v- s - >7 ^ • - tha Civil Tar (1001) ano used to drlro about In a carriage* drawn _ -■ -* p g * $*; bviu-.v.-v' % : •
brother and couGins. end boing dreaeod up In rhlt© duoV cloth©** • . ■ 9 - ■ ■ ■ • •' ■ • ; ••' • ■ ■ In ordor to aooonpemy ry grandmother on her visits to neighbor*“: ; ’ V . -"V V &V* -
odd that I should prefer accomanylhg her in vhi* way to indulging - v„ ' ■* ' ' • * ■ - ¡ana .. ■ - • 4 » . - . . - ft* . f in the play of til eorts vtiich vac possible In a groat country r. . 'is., . -A.V,"...... ; ■ r./, • - . ? , . 'V'* place such as Sanpton of which X was a lso very fond*But I have •_ t ___: - since roalitod that the roason was ay ^thon unknown) fondneBS fo r
fcm n nature and for caking aoqucLfctances, end listening to the ■- • , _ - £ ■ ' talk of thoso older than qyoolf, ocpactally if they happened
to be poople of the world« There 1a a beautiful pocrtro.it
Sully of ry grendnother la the iiall^at Bar.pton, where It has hung. w
throughout the wholo of jay Ilfs*' Ity father and s»thsr were :t-.' • iV. i5 ' • ; : . — - -V . .• ^ • 1 ... yi' ' - . iy ■» " • . 5 norriod lnraodittoly in front of it In the your 1849# and oy nother*»
second enrriago vus porfonaod at the sane spot in the year 1065» I used to derive groat pleasure ob a obild end tes.ll toy froa V .* -C. eoolng then* I rensaber particularly vie its froa Lord Frederick
Ctvcndieh, and the Honorable Evelyn Akhley, a "younger son", whoa ■v• -»'Vi-v~\. • Iti '♦*!<" •* V- I know »oil in after life as the great 'Lord Shaftesbury*. andVl-^W a -\ - % • ' . - . ■ • ; • - *.* .... ' i* *' ‘ • • • •. •’ ' , , V . 4.' \f\ •• •, o- -- " cone years later during the early years of the Civil Tiar, the ~ . • - . . * . s .. .
sls ess e ll» ted, w ith U r* Burke, permnont under-seoret*ry for
Xroland, no&r the Vice Regal Lodge at Dublin In 188lj but In after ■ ' A •• '■ ' / • ■ . • ' .V-, . •• 1 ‘
know both Lord Eartlngton, who beoaas leader of the Liberal Party r-: > £z±\. --- V ‘ - * (fo r a t i o o , before h is suooecsion to the Dukodoa) and a ls o Lord • (*-■ 1 • - ' - ^ Edward very wallj and frequently stayed at Cbatsvorth with cy
fardly, Including the children*...... - \ _ ' - I ought perhaps not to forget to asmtlon the ftct, which
1b I bolieve unusual, of cy having seen jqy grandmother's grand
mother, born In 1766, and who died In 185Sj I being In that year
si» yoara old. Of courfco I did not realise until Bone years tfftor
her death, bear wonderful it was to have lived with ono*e grand* ~ '
not her and her grandnothor at the sane tine* She wae quite a ■ . ■ v•• ¡8 . • ■ ■ . • Vigorous old lady, whoa I reraonbor as distinctly as i f X had seen f her a week ago, with several old mlden daughters who lived with
• S • *»r*' v '* i '•*!>• X . - ' • - • ’ ’ • • - ' - . n t r w* ut » rosln r apo# onssi - f o g sistin n co Baapton# n iro prooosslon » quit© wa* ere th and ■ ; . ; • ' ■ - t a Aunt - ca th . • /:■ - *• • ' ' • *• - /:■ • * • * . a dubos ckn tig lvel n ocsoal soaerbat occasionally and ly e liv thihgs caking daugbtors, bar ri t y rnnte, y hl "puet": f n of;V ‘ V ; f o on« Of "apguaent*"»: t*, n tholp au by e th *UR=arj grandnother, uy In to er eth g tog tryin Baepton to cans l l a They hsr» s nt o sae h t e at h ohr n of hc h ws it- r w was he which f o end other the t a le b ta the shake to not iso and and g llin to i* h la , i» h f o have I t a th n tio c lle o c re t c tln ie d only the i h rht Elhr pig f svea wes uig h emor, eum the during woeks eral sev r fo Springs Eulphur r.hlto the t i vie . o tin the t a use n I te no f o enso the In and o» h ws xrroy nsn ad »d o toll to hl ren child tho l l o t to u»*d and anuslng ©xtreraoly was Eho ion» f vro hat ec t ol ol b rtoa b ra i toe d&yo those in road by rot-ohad be only could rt co re t a th evurto Of bnvo ia ln irg Y and' ihryl&nd f o s ilie n fd loading tho r fo oontury e rl ara s n fagg wgn# n 80 t e cnh afer fte a conths ree ’th 18&0, In wagons# fcaggago and es carriag eral sev y rt I ws ae t r wih h rest t ftuiy, n I and , ily u t f e th f o t s e r tho ith w ere th taken was I , th ir b cy in both were which es, v lea g in fold large and niddle tho In leg -r i -Jr - A ny ...... ■ alvay* alvay*
lgl gadrrne ee nn too h owned who thoso nnong were grandpr.rtnte Rldgely 3«* /• • /•• * « .3 V ' - ■• ■ '' ' sd o h fsin n te ide to 9h , 19th tho f o Riddle the in fashion the bo o t used t I v ; . • •. jf • -• • • . . - E understood th a t t a th understood g any (H enrietta) - I havo a re a lly happy re c o llc o t- t- o llc o c re happy lly a re a havo I - enrietta) (H any i ‘S-; ' •• ■ '• ;, - ■ S ‘‘ VT* * ^ i*r tsy .> v * «V-* * v .> grandparent* th e Journey required required Journey e th grandparent* cy cy 1 ‘ 7 fa th e r drove drove r e th fa ' **• . ;*.•?»* *••'«■ 'y 4
m ~ -t a. • • ' T * • * ' JT ' - ...... ' ' ’ ' ' ' t ; ay 4 I ' - I f4
nother nother ...... ' : . ' , . - in an an in i.' a a * otg there# cottage ek - week, to open rd _ . . • '-r-.-
suitable otrringo being eva.ilE.ble fo r cy comreyanoe, a epeoia.1
ona « lb b u ilt fo r the purpose o f tran cp ortin g cy nurse and rse
in sa fe ty tp the «hits Sulphur* I rorsonbur i t w ell &s "the
little curriago" and it was still in use when I
V£S; . Alice Key , daughter of the author of "The. Star Spangled . '■ . • " ' : - . \ : ■ ’ ■■ ' ••• ? -:^V ' ■ '• Banner** Francis f.oott Key)* in rospeot to their bableej ’j .. - .. } ,,. ; - - '• «*> &*.*■. ** ■ .•*'. .■ ■ ■; ' '*-av -’V < v-' ; ■.... ¿v . .'-v /-*; - J . - -• ■ • - > >; to wit»' cnrcolf. and Frtnois Kev Pendleton, known in later
to the age of flftoon were long annual sojourns from April or
May to Ootobor or Eovcnhar at Ifejo.pton* The older I beoone* ... * /..y. 3r*^. •* < .-.-J* , * v - , i- ^ "V ' ^V. £ I. **"• -f,;. tb s mare do I r e a lis e has ye Liable a background to a can in after . * .5
l i f e 1b tho oountry hoao of his childhood and youth - ecpeciolly !*' J . ' ’ whan as in ty oaeo it w.~s a large estate of bOOO acres over which
• tho boye of the family were allowed to roan at w ill, with picnios ■ ■ g . J ■’ M ■ ■■■'■ ■' ‘ '■ ' > • • • - In tho woode* ewlming in the Gunpowder River* tobogannlng down T; - $ : 7 - . ..vV-" v '/••: . . '• ; *,. the torraooe of the garden* riding on horseback with one*« , 1 •' • • -■ SS 1■ . - , . ^ , ■■■ .. . . S grandfuthor* tanolee* eouslne* and any guests who might happen to ! s be etaying at the house* •V*'» fi*J ' # —i r - 'i • ■-•V' 'r'-- 'Vi • a ■- hl omoia uh nt o oi a eee e o sa r s I as ery slav to ce referen a omit to not ought I oormootioa la th t ueos of pbi life, r soj h* ?ra bs is i bask h?-rkad ha* Bseorjr ry , e f i l public f o numerous, lts u c n hpy on or nohr of t eary dy at apo, n in and Eanpton, t a day* rly a e e th f o other, an r o coon© happy ono n * * ad t a en kn y reat wih h ess s le ch m ith w , d te a e tr ly kind being oa th f o l l a and t*, n u *a and ht srat wud e xetd o acmls at present* t a accomplish to expected be would servants white the f o lends t f personal l l a were gardens and house e th about by ny grandfather «ero on tb s «hole happy and content« Those Those content« and happy «hole s tb on «ero grandfather ny by o t children o f th e house« th e o ld er ones being c a lle d "unola" "unola" d lle a c being ones er ld o e th house« e th f o children and n io t a ilis iv c in progressed country is th as so ly g creasin in n est e s vant, wih hee a a od el singing f o deal good a was ere th which t a ts, n a rv se te ta s e and nw hat hy a dn so, s a o© t i i e of o les cip rin p s th f o on© was t i as , o s don© had they t a th knew ©a to explain the spoiling of corta in words,or the ©eanlng of coming to ne at timesprivatoly withlittlo prinsrs, and ashing stand} bogging bogging stand} certain combinations of letters, which they could not under- I still rozaombor the younger ones, who at that time were begin- ing to hoar of freedom and of the possibilitiesof education, el,v o ry tb e t they should not bo taught to road or w rite * * rite w or road to taught bo not should they t e tb ry o el,v rnoto ue t ae evos od n© we b ft by week a ono© bold cervioos have to used grundoothor in a large square'room ovo^ th e carriag e-h ou se) fo r th e house house e th r fo se) ou attended e-h ily fam carriag e e th th (which ovo^ , ith square'room ra lb a O large a narsd in r, lste n JU Prosbytorian J •7- ' - - •J* ... - - • f . - — v " -v ~— - •.* o o aout t r nce hn t i l nne of o nunber r ila sim ft than , s nucher ir e th f o aooount on do, =v r •.. ■ ' - - , - '. - ■ - ■ •.. = - v Sr ' ¿Z . ; ‘ ^ ; .. ; V 9 v- v .
0 » a t the s&sb t i c s not to lo t any of. ray eld ers ers eld ray of. any t lo to not s c i t s&sb the t a '¿J. ■ ’ I . ’’I • * * - •:* t- - ■ :• - -■ - - - 9 - _ * - - *.3. : r- h ! Vy
. i t •' .V -
*r-jbo‘“‘T •? '- 7 - ■* ’■* i'•* . of quits a nalodibuc character by tha slaves* Inoidentally, tbs
Eev* tir# Galbraith, when the broke out. got hlsaalf Into . ;. • ■. • - . _ " - • .* — .- ir ' ■ -i‘. 1 ■-•*.>.• - i. .. £ . ft^ T • • trouble with the f&slly, fend his ¡atntetratlcns Were suspended, r- ; > : * M . % ■" ■ fe ' ' -: { owing to his having carried fe railatto, or at least a person.
an esonoaio point of view, (as itstsetbods werovery vaste ful • . «. ' 55«jjg* • ■••••• - «• - and slipshod). It »as also ted for the tenpsrs of the esroors.
grooas for reasons which scesod to eo entirely inadequate, and .'7.7, ■ •' •. . r .. • • .. . . ■ . t . . - , - ■■ ■: 4¿ •; _ _• ^ ' - ¿ •' •; ¿ - the Incident left a raost disagreeable laprescion on ay Wind, which - »—•— . , •—»' - ~ -*-• * ■ *»*— V */ a *«-*" “ • -*4~—-- occurrence» I roBsnbor another punlshnant which of o our es vas not really injurious or painful, except to the prlds of the ■fictlu» That was cutting off the hs.tr of a nulatto girl who was almost w h ite, and whore h a ir did not resemble in the least tho vooly hair of tho nogrooa# fho greatly prided her* \ ‘ " • • . . — ■ - i ' - f * . - . : “ - " - - ' ct - " «- - -• - -•» '• • i: " . -A ♦ > v % ■ ’ * • .. • . •- solf on hor resehblahoe in general, and particularly on that of . v‘-' . ~ ■ • - %...... > • hor hair, to tho ^chito rolks,,, and It was great humiliation that it should bo out off, which cf course was tho basis for ■r ' - 1 „ * . ■■'Jet' * ‘ -.-A" A f - 10 ' • V' • : ' -A .A ■ ' ■ ‘ : ■£:- > r v . . : . . v . n : . tv. not caution, as thoy aro «oil known* ^etnitbctandlng all of which, as Z be.vo previously said, sy recollection of tbs system j> not at tho tloo - that slaves were unable to perform any civil they had taken pl&oe bstsrosn two anlns. 1b on th e p la ce# " I t •• ‘ ,v"' • • , - • - ■ ' • : ■ • * - ~ -» ^ 4 . . - T .,-■■■ - - - ' .* -i 5 * - - • •:•• V- ! - ■ f ' * I w as perfectly posr-Iblo, therefor©, to part these so-called f ■' • if ¥ mrriod oouples ty eriling one or the other, or their children, to another caster, with no hope of their ever nocting again, although no euoh oase ever a re te a t Hampton# I f often did, s however, elsewhere, even among the best Rasters, as a re su lt " . • - • . ~ - " ' o f death, and the division of an estate of which tho slave» . formed part» ly grandmother «as always very kind in going . J"- .•‘’l £<•' ¿Xv to »oo a^y of the slaves who were ill, and a doctor from the \ i neighboring sm all settlem ent then c a lle d Towsontown, (which - r . v? .. , . - * ~ j - ' • %.<■■ .* ’ . has since dovelopod into Towson, the oounty/ seat of Baltimore County), was constantly c a lle d to attend them# ; : - v-» .>-> O'"** . *# *..*? . -> .A J .'V%- 1 ‘J . -.' " ./ , . * • ■* ’«• • ' - ■ ' ir. ; • ‘"z j —■ . ' v v . . . , ' . H . • u . . brother to obtain a little sea air« Suoh aaa the case the Banker o f tsy father** death, In 1853, and In 1854 when re rent to. Old k . £ $ S $ t b l t . V ' t .raw ^ g £ £ $ . f * § V chin rlth . ribbon ------• - • * ...... ••■ •:.• 1;"'- '? ''■-'*''** -;j 2 i,- i - -v. ■' .. • - • - . : - - •_: . .• ■ . . been proconted, and cost of whoa In ny later year*. I tar* k n e n m ,■ veil* Curiously enough, else, lir« Sidney Webster, she was the r — '• - ■ — 'U. ' _ _ y . - - - President*» o fficial Eeorota-ry at that tine, afterward* ssarrled tho oldeot daughter of the Hon. Baadlton Fish, Secretary of , '* State undor Pro cldc nt Grant, and both ho and hi* w ife, who was a 4 *' ' - - ' \ ~ * ” - ‘ - - ’ " * _• \ • ” - - - ' • ,T_- «. •» . ■ . cousin of Ey first wife, 15?ngarot Stuyvcmnt Putherfurd, be cam rensabsr mny exceedingly interesting talks with hla during hi* 7V . J- _ ... . ' ’ la te r yoars* In 1857 cy Esother decided to go abroad w ith hor children« We sailed froa flew York on tho 27th of Ipril In tho r r • •• -r . : t- > V YOnkeo aklppor n&sed Ikons, which landed us at Barro In FranoO y- ¿- .• * • .. - - V-- . _ ; •. i ’ ' 4.-V i* -.s' ' * - ' > . ■ % • ■ - - « • .''iV'L- : . ‘ I • . < • \ ’ .&■ , 1_ «> .-«t- r ‘1: ; ‘.- . ' .a 1 ; V . - V • . i 1 la about a fortnight, on a perfectly beautiful spring day which j : ... t -» . • . - . *. I troll rorsoobor* Te put up for tto night at ths £ot©l Fr*.sa&tl, i* and proocoded tbs next day to Paris, taking up our abode at tbs Hotel «estslnstar in tha Kuo do la Falx* t o oooupled an entresol -■ .. • ■. - - • - » - . • •• . - . * - . jy; _ . ■ ■ . . . ‘ : street. One of the Incidents of the voyage, which I remember 1*" * ” * .> *-r _ f. £: ?• ••."'* '* ' . . - • ' • - V - with a questionable pleasure was being klesed every conning by an those days, and there wore no barbers) and whose beard boc&rae ... =; • rougher ev ry day. Be said ho had promised a y grandnothsr to look after as, and apparently he chose this rather objectionable \ way (as far as I was conoorned) of carrying out his promise* (see Supplement 5) In those days * and indeed long afterwards - the . • • • - ' - • - •' ' • , • ./ romforto wore few, and tho discom forts great on the tran s» At len t lo steam ers* 'A oov, whose sta b le was close£ to the paddle box, (and when th a t happonod to be b me hod by a wave, she fared badly and conotioos was wanhdd overboard) as well as live chickens, wore carried, for tho supply of oilk and eggs to ths pascengors* The staterooms were very small with tiny portholes. ■ if. ■- ; t vil - •-■■i M6T - © '• v •• • -• • and the vontlintion wns bad, soft.-ea.ter often broke in through - , ••• . '• • • . - ■ ? 0 i ■ - 13 V ’/h.: the skylights, and it r.-s not tn unooecon occur rene» to look out of < ono*s berth in tho naming and eco clippers or other article« whioh to prevent cuoh floodings iron tbo jaieagec outa Id® thastaterooca* E lv le ra , ote», to Parle* Florence at that tins was under th® ; ; • iwiflrule of thath® Arana Orand DnVnfi Duke« of Tntmg^nv Tuscany, _ aÀo who oontinl«^ occupied +V» the 'rklttts ral&rzo J 1 - w Pitti* There used to he frequent «tato procession« - u su ally on funday* - .in connection with sona religious feto - In beautiful ' !*■ • ' *V S* ■ r * . • * . ~ carrlc-go«, which subsequently be&ane ths property of tha Sings of Italy, and I reaeabor going to sea then mny years afterward« when I was Anbaaendor, In the royal «table» of Florence, redooorated of oourse with tho arm of the House of C^voy* Florence In thos® . .I- ...... /•*- $*Z - - day« e t i l i had I ts tssdiov&l »¡all« standing, and retained In .» '£■ .v':.- ’• -: ;■ •. « • ' •• •• “/V •. '• ‘ ‘ -v •*' * . -V Ì* ‘ general tho appearanoo o f a ©odleval city to a greator extent than 1 • ■ ...... ■ _ coat other places In Europe* Tho vails and a particularly Interest I ing part of tho city known as thè {Scrosto Vecchio, which va« M - * ' • • • -:-••• /' -/Vv-f ^ U ?:- . . fnRtnlturv £»B it ttlb !ni*_ kr® 1 rmrr nt nnm ^f dftnnn®» / j j t ¿¿r\ t: ^ ' . V Z have quito & distinct reoolleetlon of the?, although not taioh otbp eight years old whan wa left Florcnoe* host of our * ■ . . i ■ ; - journeys “Bore vartorr&d by ci.rrIaro, &s tbs railroad» were few > '■ . ^ ' a t V I VWC. '••••:.••: •;'•• TT- and ftr 'batessn la 1857 - 8»; Tho whole of our trip froa Geneva'.-'' ; • '• V - i’ ->•? '•'/ ■- ; - 't . V-.-‘ - ■- v- -.*+ :.v ^ c- ’ ‘ . Station (ithlnk Westbourne Terrooe) fron the windows of whloh I reoeaber »eelng * train a’rrive, conveying, l ent told, Queen ■ ' : , - - - *% ;■ . t ■ ■ ' - ■ : . - - • • - V icto ria and ft-lnoe A lb ert, but Z do not reeesaber to b&ve a ctu ally ftecn those august persons• Ity chief recollootion o f our stay in * London, ie being talrun to ta lk by ny nuree In the northern part > . ... - • o f Eyde Park, whoro I usoa occasionally to asuea cyeelf, by asking“ --- kind old gentlensn who happened to ps.ee, what o’olock i t :*a»• vv^: - X also te ll reaenbor seeing on several ocoteluns, Er* Junius horgan, '' . f , . • - ...... ^ v. v '- v '- fathdr of the late . .•' r ' ... ' ‘ . . -■ • 1 ■ • f - ' y -..T ' -• < • '• K . 4' - . • ! -?• 3 « $ ®~d .-tt -J- . . tin® a partner In the banking h use o f lir# George Peabody, o f ; J v . ’ .’j . ' • ^ which he subsequently because the head, and founder of the great ■' ) ■ . ■. \ ■ -- . ' ’ ■ Morgan banking house, which has beeone so w ell known, and Is o f .. T ■ ■ • . . . . . • . ■ ' . . . . • ' ■ * • , ■■T.: ' V • I d * ' ' . - « A . •- *“ . . ’A- _ -^v5 •- -f-•'■*** ; i*'. j, j . - H 4 - "■i ■ - w . - -■ w iIf f « £ *- . %. .' la ths year 1859 cy grandfather and grandrothor Eidgely abroad, I bollevo e inco the yt>ar IB M , ehorfcíy a f t e r h ic e a rrlfig e . - - . . ■Y.-r-- -_ * ’»V*-'-* i . rT- “ ,• • ' •*' •* - /• —-V . - -y - - .*•- - ' - . í v - century* the loading landed families of that State used to ■ '• ■- ... •. • ' -V ’ “ - V ”'--. . • • •- g fe | residences at Annapolis, where there was a great deal of horse- <*■ ' 7':> r7 v ;'- "vL> ; : ;:r / T* »- - r c V . J > % : * **** W-* journey, whieh in ay grandfather*! case was 57 alios froa Eacpton, „ . over roads whloh oust have been Tory bad# His father. General -• * . \ ‘ - ...' ' / -7- . - V- • ~ *' M ■ • y ■ ' ■ • Charles Eidgaly of Baapton, of whoa an admirable portrait by _ ^ -...... j- -v • ^^1-* '• . V ‘ “7 ‘ ’ . - Fu lly still hanga in the Vusie Rooa there, had been Governor of Karyland in 1815-1818* In those days the Governors of that State were elected by the legislature, and not as at present and for tnny years p&st, by popular vote* r. As a result of his o&rly training and heavy responsibilities - \ ~f '.-vr ■- *~C ’ in» managing his largS estato - being a typloal fquire after the - > , -■ &: ..... v '• - English fashion - ay grandfather was not keen about going abroad, j?' >- ? . * * ■ . * t]- ■ but allored hirself to be persuaded to make the trip in the year 1859# - They were acoonp-nied by Ur# Henry Johnston of Ebltlcore, • • V ' _ - ' '< . .r- tJ _ . i _V - r - tors of offico, whe presided at the ililto IIouco* Ehs bed _ ■ previously dono Ilkevice at our legation in London, when “her ‘ uncle was yinietor thorn, during the presidency of Franklin ?"*.■; '■?.+ . . . . - - • - - . . h Piero#«' ’ - In later ' year#*. Mr#' - Hr»* ‘ Johns ton«© -• re great friend#; • . ' . ' ; .j -. 2¥S* ’5 % ? * - S \ ' • .• i m m m - l^et century, nor# than forty year# after lira* s f Johnston p p loft^r . a ■ V ■ /. • \ s <'.v. . , ; -•; . London with hsr undo, I was instrumental In arranging an * audience for bar with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, which ¿i met have boon rather touching and pot urnsixoa with s&dness, m m i ■■'*■ ? ■ W a# both th# Queen and ehe had lost their husb*jodB and some of their ohildren during the long year# which intervened »inoe they had last net at the end of Ur* Buchanan's ds&ion* My. aunt, Ur». Chsrlos Pidgely had never been to V : * _ Europe before, and was particularly anxious to go* Ky grandmother was equally keen, and bo they all got off In the month of Uay, 1859, ry mother being left in oharge of the Hampton estate, and particularly of the slaves, over whoa there was an overseer, mmd Gent, whoa I well remember as a not ■ .•• ■ • •:' : • . * ■ / - . • • . -. > .*>v‘ •. ■ •:> particularly attraotiv# person« ' • r -* V ■ Ky mother was ¿lpposed to reserabi# her grandfather, > ■ . •* • ' g.iv General Kidgoly, who had a strong character, and »as a stem but just tr-star, and sho was considered well adapted to talc# charge of Earptoa curing ths absence abroad of tha otter cscb-rra of the fatAly* There tsro no ctblccrens In thoea dsy*, and the in Latin “or, Ikthoratioe *ea supposed to be aore or less rood* ' . . ' . • 5«VE - - . ■ «■ ■ ■■■ ‘ ~ ' ■ ; • . „ - J * ----- , » ' •' ». ; — - ' ' I rei»nbor. t b i t ay imole and ay fath er had been to a fatsous man • of that kind, nared fco& U y, '«hose capacity for imparting classical tr.owledgo mat have been quite extraordinary} but ha had ceased to teach before rr/ tins* Be had, however, taught ry mother It tin , in which she ams quite proficient, and trhich . •he taught her sons* In order to teach a t Greek, ehe amlled herself of another school xsasfcer of that period, named Horan, • g ; - ; .. - r» • - fi -A._; ‘ • *' V i - / - . -CJ. - V F» \ 't- .:. One Anothorbar in te r e s t Inc inoid ent va* tha return of tberronoh Troop® ' V XV. •)*£*« ••• '•?-.•••«.-: V-'-i V. JT. • •- signalised by ft grand caroh paot through the street® of fUrle, . i:. - 4 • ...... - ■» •- - ‘ - - * .. - - ■ 4 S.r. - ,~L-yv *. V*. ■ and they vote reviewed by the Eaperor, Empress, and nany other' , ~ •• ■» V .t .v . ¡s one of which sy relations vitnesfted the great Ellitary epootacl#« • -..y >; £ .u; ‘ i*i-' - . - — • - ’• T.-s #v 2 JLffcaf & number o f le tte r « had been received by car ’ - • rather fros the family abroad ctoting that a ll wae well, end that they were enjoying thoir trip greatly, v® verm profoundly astonished : ■ • - • • 't • ;■ - ■ " . *T t* 't- -7 . . • one day a t liuepton to see ey grandfather Elogely drive up to the door In ft hack whioh he had hired iron Baltimore« It soenft that, however nach the other comber* of th® family were enjoying their trip to Europe, he had beoona incx- _ ; i ‘ *' ~ ■ ; • • . . . __ - *- S r ■' ( ■-.. .. — ~ t “ 1 - ' •• • - -• ‘ ■ " 7- • . •- ' preseibly ho rod, and had decided to return ho do* l^r unol® and i* • -v- i**' '? & • * ~ - xi *',' h i . vH :-.- • r ^ ‘s^’- *- • ' " ' • T'- c. : . ;S* . -:V ; • t -V.' .. • -' VTi*« Johnston, took h la to Havre, put hiai; Aboard a a te a csr bound i * ,.v-■. ■ - ■ '. w ^ A - - -■ • ■ for Kcrsr York, and a* there wa® no way of announcing hi* departure fro» Europe, save by a l e t t e r , (th ich would take longer to eske • “ - i s - - : y . . ^ V --" ^ - • - r _ --x«' • '-’r:- '-'L* J'V* 1' *f.' Jr-'-^k'£’ - V...* wa.8 no telegrapbio oomnunieatioa bctxo&a Baltimore and Torscntcm , bo w&b unable to send for one of the Eaapton carriages to Beet fcia visits to Emitterland and other places of interest within the iV r ‘■ -f - had W en b u ilt raising of funds wherewith to build the Episcopal Church, there, in which vy grandoothor was moh interested, and which she was largely ’ ' • • - » ' instrumental in constructing* Tho chief thing which I reneebar . \ . ■ . *■ ■ . • . / . . • ■ about tho fair 1» having been placed by ^ aether on a chair *to think* (which was hsr favorite node of punishcent for minor o ffen se s} in k room w ith barred windows; the re s u lt being th a t an old nurse of curs alsyay* ct-id that I was really tho first prisoner V in the County* Court Eouso at Tows on I The building, not quite - finished at that tin», is still standing and I never pass it, (as I frequently do on the road to or froa Eoapton, which is only "H „J. _ - ,Z -~ - -- -» - • sixty d ies froa our Tit ahington house), without recollecting that incident of tho Toweon Fair in 1859« ... . W i . - - - • • . ------i •■“tr* In thinking over thoao early day® of cy life , I a» 77 , ... f often struck fith tho great difference - the tbyes, indeed, I nay say - existing between tho idcale and customs of that period and - ' \: those of the present tine* In no respect were these difference* - i ... oonimsrea, Doeeror innocent one or xne ox nor psrxy Kignx &e, a ro»l taint upon the a both, whereby thsir position in society was . & '• j*"A ^ V-- " . -* r. • . ’ •' ■ ' i - ' ' ' ' ' ' - *V ■ ; ■ - rsterially affected* j?s~ • • '* if. •- »? V T w» -*-*r W-—4* »WVIWUJ W,M-» uuwi V#.* <•'- -«T -T ^ » •*■ • .. I ?“ - v v o r : a i : ■ -■-* "• ,..'7 :'■• iront out of hi* Bind and beo&os a violent lunatic until the end o f h i* days. lie uixs a essb er o f one o f the o ld est fa n illo a * Ji * '■■' ■ ' ' ' 2 •' ‘ V ' ‘ 'V .. -'V.r./Vi V -Y M & ' ‘ in question, she would te ll the servant to *ay to any one els« > J < . ‘ . - -. • . • * t - ' ■- ' b- '¿LylT- -r-' - : j i - • ~ ■ i ;- ’ • * ■ * - os. 11 in» upon her a t the case t i e s , th a t she v&s erq^gad, and ■would cot receive theaj If at any tlss, the lady in question was dining w ith h e r, and she invited other gu ests, she would always lat the» know thr.t the lady aforesaid was coning, in case they should not Triah to oeet bor, as eosa of then objected to doing« ~ - ; - ■ • . . .. * v ’• ;■••>•.* ■* ~ # ■ I have einoo heard o f a case somwh&t sim ilar froi* • V : ' -7 % . ' '* ’ •■ •: " \ '' '■ '* •• l ► a oontespor&ry o f min«, who, on ooming to stay with a frien d In Hew 7ork, was told thor« was a divorced lc.dy.noxt door, a* though • freak of nature or a phenomenon of cone kind ra* living • T _ - the trirfdow to look at the tainted l&dy.in questicn# I mention • - • • . . . • ‘ .v ; *.V , ' ; • • th ee3 incidents to choir what tbs foellng ■eric about divorce in xy ..." . . .• • • - - • ■ youth* It tra.» perhaps too rigid, but in ray opinion it u&s . .• . - ;; -v- * "V■•'i? - ’• • • * certainly better than the terrible laxity new prevailing In that . ~ . ■ ■ - ' . reapoot, trhlch is merely an attempt to cover Immorality with tha the present day, morely for tha purpose of carrying soma one else* I remember very v e i l tha e le c tio n in th is country of 1860, Kith four candidate! for the officer to ariti Llnooln and Bamlin, B e ll and riy ero tt, Brooke nr idge and Lane$ Douglas and--..- Johnson* Thera veur a considerable amount of exaiteaent thrcugh- cut the oountry, bncuuEa#for tha first tins, a candidate of the A’. new Republican party had been nominated J.n the person of hr« - y Lincoln, and the elave-omers were greatly altrned lest in the event cf his eleotion tltoir rifh^15 as ruch would in rons way or other bo done sreny v ith * I t w*s th is fe e lin g , (chared to a considerable extent by eympathissre in the Worth) that brought on tho Civil bar, which was tho chief interost of everj-one in thl» oountry, and, t» a matter of couree, of th« younger generation, ' ' ' ' • i during tljo four year« which followed Kr* Lincoln's aetunption of tho Freslder»oy, (to which he ttu elec ted In tho previous November) ______.0.1. IU loci -* 22 • .rt iar • .■ s.- an in s titu tio n to tha country, ho re a lise d to bo in &ooordanoe ■Kith tha Ian« thsroof, and ho hell that tfco elevo-oTTnors troro '* entitled to thet protection of the l a t t e r in tho mfcsntion of v:uPv - / '* -■ - ' ■ s-i t *;• % ... > - . - r. t. f t' tbolrihelr bursanfawraar» ascia well a*as landodlanded pospeceionn*pospeeclono* , I!r*I’r« Lincoln lost ■ y ~ .-u ji ; r;\ •, no tioo in ranking hie feeling« in the Bettor knoirn, in the hope part of then not very pleasant to ‘one, «ho, even as a child, • V . * r..,7 • ■ •• • • w U V\_ " ' i , ' . . “» » ■ ... hoar one or more such discussion*, during which tho parties there«*“c - . ■ * r" r '■ - ■ ■. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ - v • r to frequently lost thoir torpors, and ended, sosao of ihea, by not . t‘. ■"* ' ./ ' i ■ ' S : f- £ " ■ - • \ - .. - l ' ©poking to each other« liy gramffether kidgely alvays professed to be a “Union I4an".j but i t «a t not long before I not toed failing# y ;*r ■ J • - of r*rkod eat Le fact Lon whenever the Southerners «on & victory* It n s very furturutr for fell of tie that Ihryland happened to b# on the road froa tho Korth to rechington, and consequently to be taken under the oontrol of the Union arty* Othervieo, it would doubtle6B hf.ve been reduced to the oondition In which# after the • " : .' • •' » -2 ■ ... ■ ...... ir : ■■■ - ■ ■ - .. ■ ' :v" ■ • . war, the other Southern fttatee found ther^olve8j, a oondition whioh lactod during the renalnder of tlve oentury^ and from which, only in recent years the South is beginning to recuperate* liy grand» elso| eoneifhs.t Ewdified, however, “by hi* m W rial Interest*, which \ . . *■ r * .. - - . t . . f wv - ha re a lis e d , depended upon tho eventual euccete o f the Union ' " ’ ■ t ~ : , ' " - - .... -i —, . s '*- - ' V-* - '■» - * - •' A . ■ • - - ' *v‘ ; , -- •" •" fo rces* Vy first recollection of the outbreak of hostilities y.-a* r. •; - -V' ' v All the boy® wore forcing car^anies, and parching about playing at being soldier® in that first year of tha war# Balticjoro County, of which tsy uncle, Charles F.idgely wa* cade 'i Captain, and John Berrytss-n o f Bayfield, sons distance further - r v-“ f- • ii»y ' . . up the York road, fcocs-ne Lieu tensest* The coapany usually d rille d every Saturday aftern oo n , a t Ton-son, and nanixsrs of the facily, including r^-oelf and the elder boy® used to drive over from Ea-pton to see then* These d rills, however, lasted only . * ■ a few week® and suddenly os-sa to an end, for reasons not m i l known to sac a t the tine, although I happened to be the Intermediary o f their transmission to tbo oaptaln o f the company* I was B ittin g reading a book outside the door of the roots known a® the "little office" at Eanpton, when an unknown m n approached, and banded ee a le tte r addressed to the letter* Shortly afterward® several of the man on tha place ware sent off on horseback with letter* addressed to various.: - neighbors, the purport of which.was not inparied to cej but * . - ' sosetirna afterward*. I ascertained that they countermnded the ; ■ - ■ 1 ■ > ■ ■ - ■ ... ■ > T 1' • * ; - • ' • - -'...• • /■’ . ■ -. • i» next drill of c t imolo ?s company, and no other ever took p la ce * - . »* * (seo Supplement 6)* the ground that the company had boon forced for aeeistance to ' the South. f-B a cotter of fact cy Uncle1* idea of the "raison B’etre* of hi* oonpany, we* to b* of use, in case of need btf. * ’■■ . * ' ' - : • ' • ■ : - the S ta te o f !fe.ryl&nd •* an example o f the ra th er vague idea thsa-V1 -■ r prevalent a* to State* * right* in general and a* to the o curse Hirj-land was likely tpadopt eventually« At that tins General John A# Dix of Ke* Tbrk, an V / officer of excellent reputation, and personally known to cy grandfather Pidgely, wa* placed in oonrani of the United State* troop* in Baltimore and ite neighborhood, and shortly after th* incident previously described, tita latter went to see the general and asked hia xhat the eituation really was In oonneotion with ny . uncle and h i* company o f o&valry* • f ...... ! •. . General Dix told ay grandfather quite frankly that a : "• previously warrant w&e out for the arrest, (under cartial dear which b*d/4>een proolalned in I*»ryland), of ey uncía and of Lieutenant John . r_t .-.t 5-iájj- - '• ’ -v.,v„*, ;. • s- ' I - - - * ■ • - V- «■ -*» - - - v- - I think he actually produced, for ry uncle, but said that Lieutcuont Herryran, either would be, or actually bad be^sn already arrested * Tba la t t e r «als the cause o f the famous "habeas corpus" : which was decided by the courts at that time, arid which is well-'* ‘ . • ; • • - Uotmknown to all a l l Jliuiyer#;»Wtfen* ’ ^ . . -1 '? ■; ‘ «*'... > ■ . C -T ^ ■'•- y v i / ' v,^ y-*"v ' ' " r C v" -. '4 •'**’ ' V > * ,'•■■_:• 7 (see Eupplorscnt 4/# v ~ "'• . : - ' . . quietly at Konpton throughout the war* The outbreak of the war had a very diuaetrous effect upon cy grandmother, sho, in 18G2 was suddenly stricken down, when spending the day at Baltimore, with - .•-• . .- -. --; ■:?.;... and frea the effects of trhloh ths never really recovered» It turned out to bo the beginning of softening of the brain, which grad'-ja-lly booaee voree, and ended in a strobe fron which she died in 1857« Für tr-ny weekh who rec&inod without moving in the house o f tba Howards in Butaw S t r e e t , where eha was s tr ic k e n , and when at last she was able to return to Ik.- pton, it was obvious th&t eho wes no longer her old s e l f * She vs.e always worrying about something; fearful of an attack by the slaves at night upon the _ V .? . house, which prevented her from sleeping; complaining of the lack of attention to her on the part of oenbors of the family or of l tho servants, and In general A xaoot unhappy person# A largo nunbar o f tho younger noabare of the Eldgeljr ■ Z A. ‘ ‘ -v g y m . brothsrs of tzy aunt, lire. Charles Bldroly, B^rry and Bidgoly rfcroughout tho eunners of 1851, 62. 63 and 64. reports / a -s' ■■ • , • • • * ' y ■ • . southern cause - one of the chief songsters being a member of the " s -»-y . y V-. 7 ...* : v : not far froa Boughoregan ihxior - the horaa of Charles Carroll of ■' ; ' ' -J- - • C arrollton in Howard County» Fortunately Maryland vku nsror the seat of warj but thorO ware twt> important raids mde by the Confederates Into that state in the years 1862 fend 1853» The former ended with the battle of ¿mtietaa of which I well reaoEber hearing the guns in the far distance one fine afternoon, on the terrace at Fa-ptonj and tho other in the much core important fend deois We battle of Gettysburg* Shortly aftfer the latter battle, tho aforesaid . t Coxisin TTunce s e t out In h is. buggy fo r Gettysburg or as noar th a t place fes he could get. In order to discover if possible, some of tho Belabors of his Jfturily, whether any of thoa bad boon wounded f - ■ ■ . y ' ' : \ - ' - battle, to Thick the boy» of the fanily, and I ic&glna th» ~V -• . . . 1 - elders alao, listened with rapt attention» - - ■■hv ^ ?'■ j, > -,'v- «w— ».„i- •J-- •• • • *r - i , daughter of ^Francis Scott Key), who bad a cottage at Seaport aspiration» of the Decocrat» to turn lira Lincoln out and get into poser thcurelves* The late August Bglnont, a trsll knosn Esw York b&nfcor, and a rep resen tativ e in th is country o f th e \ - - . - s F.othEohilds, ra* a leading Der-ncrat, and gr.v-3 sons reception» at hi» beautiful villa, uhich k&» bought fo r Sir* * Mrs* Pondleicnj but the war bad by that tine taken a turn decidedly aguinst the Couth, and there vre» no possibsd ohanoe after nid surxer of 1S34 - In the following Spring, a» a ll reader» of history know, the war otu-a to an end by the surrender of General Lee and ' L. ' . - ' ■ -7 ‘ ' •---, 'y * . . . • ■ • * H > ~ .. V 1• £ • »TeffarGon D avis, so fa r ; as I can ressaber^ was tb s only leader o f th s Confederate E th ic s , o f which. bo had boon * - ■ ... ■ '■■ -... ■ .. ■ v . . v. . * , 7' * ; .-q ‘ ff . - ' . ^ ' ‘ . ■ ' This however was n T*nr 4Lfilo«n» natter in view of the complete „ ; * . ;. \ • •' - ;• ' • • •"-:-••-.••=.• •• •■• - jr J : : ' - - devastation of the country by four years of C irtl War, and for other reasons, which wore the result of Hr* Lincoln*» tr&gia ate oocumemoes fro a the point of view of both Worth and South, r~ _ .Z * ----- that ever befel this country# . I - Bs-d he lived through tha four year* o f his second tens as President, the reconstruction of the South would have proceeded * on wise end generous principles* Whereas he was succeeded by an inoonpctexrt niui of a curious torpor, strong likes and ¿ i s lik e s , and little knowledge of the world, or of how to deal with iron, who, with no proooncoivod ill intentions and s till lees any Bailee, nsYcrtbe«* less, for one rea son or another,(which are fully set forth"in ths • I I* nunarous histories of that period), n&naged to create Irmunerable ) antagonises in Congress and elsewhere and fin a lly was lEpr-aehsd# I have on the whole painful recollections of the Civil ' - 29 - V . JV - , ; - w.. , v • h ' 1 -J- t i * ~ w* ** X- - • , '. ~ . ' • , i ^ i . . i ^ ■ t .1 ‘ ■. * y - :•- - , •-.•*.• - , - ■*. -> , : •- - C - ’ y *. ■■-. . • ‘ • n pit ve#; . ^ ; view# f o point any titIn , n I hv .ee be ab o co datg f ’a s fr advantaga s t i sc?o to abb» been .never hrva I and , atriot,Icn p oten ry s huh hy oe bn of ai sj sl on estly n j ts in sa f o band a l l a wore they though as Arty Southern life tim e to become enem ies, to bo suspicious of.o^eh other*« other*« of.o^eh suspicious bo to ies, enem become to e tim life oolclna edea ey otd ece oa, fn a oosu ' onorsou* an find , Iona cues ie d boated very endleca f o a rooollectlon o f ny grandeothor*« who UBed to corse to Hampton and d escribe the the escribe d and Hampton to corse to UBed who grandeothor*« ny f o 1 h Suhr«* r e dukr« ad on ari ocrat wo o want for who , t« a r c to is r a young and drunkard«j re ra Southern«**« the srrclg t t o to t ihtng - g# tin figh to took do, to r tte e b sorsrfchlng f o edn, hc a bohe ad tedd n a sed It sy not say t I stead# bar in attended I and er broth ay which wedding, , rs e h f o e frlend old very two f o iece n a f o wedding the attending to l o te ect t ee nsst n y ste’ not isother’s ay on d te sis in ebe t a th t, c je b u s the on gly stron ai ws eknn, s r t s tni te ai felt e© t l e f , in ra b the f o g in ften so f o lt u s re o as weakening, was , id sa n h gon t te hd en rot yptie® t te oten \ > northern the ith w sympathiser® ardopt been had they t a th ground the on « ju s t the the t s ju « ’ - .' ’ ’ • - * ' ' ' * - ■ In In y rnmte Kdey vhB mn a I ae rvosy ~ previously have I a* mind vrhoB» Kidgely, grandmother Ky n ees# «• reverse# •. • •!-«_• Vv* -* - ' :-.r '■ : - • ,v »- -- ■' •: - ■'•■ : .“r • .•»!?-*«*_ -r* •» Vrv.*r »• , . . v,: ; v.. - * * * - v • . ev w f &l wlh lr n, a# v• •:. - -v • bar# I one, o l*rp a whloh , ly t& fh own -'cri hat b Nrhr Ary"ee h pati s- n ‘ and - ts trio a p the "were A ray Northern tba t a th * T A . 1 - ' - ' -v 'C t . ' . . V - J* ■.i. J Vr-: -i-.- . ■ i v i - - d -iT :& :: . ■ — . -> , T - j :T , . .-»> . —v _ ■ , '. . • . .. .' ;■•, . . ;. j * > y on bar wedding day« Poor lady, sbo h&d attained, during the fifty Jsoar* which had passed, enonsou* proportion*, and bar - s; ; ,7: % -■ figure on the fiftieth anniversary of hor carriag*wa*a# far T ? •. - "• > ■ £?n'. v-’-ici."«- ' ■*'** ■* I ifcit’LV-" ^ •-,■■ i ■ - ‘ ~* - ■’ ;. •-£ -hV'.\ •. • i vrr **' *• A., * v •*« r • ‘ I ...... remote froa the description which X gaya of her appearance whoa r;:--4 -- : ’ ... - . • - -i r"-~c- >>■» • f •'-* - •- ' . »* ■* # ♦ period of the Civil Bar« l$y ©other, brother and 1 spent It for beloved hoss»« In the suturax of?- that r year* an event ooourred whioh probably changed the whole course of ry llfS j vi»} iy ©other’* • Hepburn -.. second carriage to hr* ThoE^e/Suoklsr, a bandeoae and very in te llig e n t ©an* 16 years bor senior* whoa she had known ever sin e* ohllchood* and who ws.b well known in Ealticore* and to a certain extent throughout the oountry» Ko was interested in may subject* beside* hi* own profession, for vhichhesooraodto have a epooial lnatinot* in addition to tbo knowledge which he had gained by .. =-. ' l • ' ' . • ' .. 'V-V. ■ ’ r*~{ .''i i p ra ctice thereof# But h* wa* sonervhat ahead o f h i* t i n * In cany . ' ■ • : ' * i J • -i; ‘ . . of his ideas* suggestion»* and aspiration** and ho rather lacked .-if the power of understanding boa to deal with hmsan natural th* " *• . - - - ■ . - ■■ .. - . H '•'f» . '■ - > 1 < ? - - ; v . » - » . . " * . m . ^ • • - • % > . • ‘ - .*•' •- — * **+.j ' .* s i ‘ * , -■• v;';' 'b '’ jfV.v _ < ’. 'N* -.*- b f c - i S ^ - , ' M *... . . i • ■ -■....', < Tbs carriage tool: pl*o® In Bovecber, 1655, msd »hortly . . . i * * ♦> . • the trip, and especially because, being a san of genial tesperarant fend •' . '•K • . .. ' ^ -* then prevailed between ®o onnyof hi» friend®, and which fee thought ...... * : • i . •••..• • • -• y£ * ■ \ - : \ - S I . fc.3. : \ * V lig\ H *£?&£&&&■ •" * wouldi be ho likelylik ely to disappear Inin another year« ' *® a natter of ftueV . •. ,v ■ , w ' . .. ha never returned to the United Etatea, and regained abroad until fcie death in ft-ria on Chrlstne.® Day, 1882* _ -V * - * . .— y - '*• * •< • ' * - - ■ > - .v " „ a - v*’ ** It wet this oircuast&nce which changed tha course of / - Ey l i f e . I t would proEunably have teen «pent for the ra®t p art - I quietly, and not improbably in a mnnsr not nor a Interesting than - " tho»e of oy contemporaries and friond®, had we rot gone abroad. and bad not vy grandfather re mined thor* till the end of hi® day« • ..*• •. \ . £? r ■ * , • " • \ Ity rather wa® *lao fond of Europe (with the history o f v* ? : J.r i? which In general she was rare or les® veil acquainted), and ehe thought, a« did cy grandfather, that her ®ona* education wbuld be i •' r • tr ■ ^ • - x i ‘‘Mv •"* v •- ? ■ -- ■ - ■ - - •_ • . ke wore all to have called together in the eonth of . \ ry grandfather, whllothareBt of the party should call Mi r vlv f ■ arranged, and renaln In London until wa should join then. I wr.s thereby enabled to pa.ee the last Christ ns.» (of ny life. I lr&eino) . . ' • ' ' . ••"••• it • • •. . I •• • , -v .• . , . . V'- • • U -.' " • - ' * ‘ ^ 8 oortainly for sixty year», whloh I ehould ever spend at Baj^ton^ ; as we ©ailed two days afterw ard from Kev Tork in the Cuntrd ateacshlp dara, knersm than and for the remining years of her service a» the ’»Jusplng Java• , because of bar extrsoe unsteadiness at sea* I .Little realised that that Shristm* wee the last occasion on which I should ever sea cr Eidgely grandparents, as ty gra.ndfte.ther failc*d rapidly and died during the following succor» Ky grandmothar did likewise in 1857, and I reneriber, when the nows - of her death reached us in Eferle by l e t t e r , th ere being then no cable,across the ocean, how depressed I felt at the realisation tint the Barnpton that I knew and In which I felt a* though I hod a certain right to live as a grands m of tho house had oono to an end, and that however agreeable It ninht be in tho future under the rerica • there vhfmrrop I fe lt bo disposed» Curiously enough, upon Hearing' of ry grandmther *s death I vent there, end sat for V.. V "* v - ' i -.¿z* l r ’> . - 1 To rotxirn however, to our Europe na trip, ny grandfather . • • . ' - h* ' f ' •*: . ' ” f.- ■ '• \ r - . ■ - - ■ Cavdndiah fqua.ro, London, «h er* w ram tried fo r two or thre# Eimtha, end then vent to Bari** During cur stay in London we used to walk about e good deal with sy grandfather, who know the city pretty V vdll, and *r e able to shown* cany of the groat private houses, public buildings, and other objects of interest» Ce bad oooe abroad early in hi® life , and b»d even been on the field of Fraterloo about t^o no nth* i-ffcor the battle*' Ei# account of that experience, and of.mny of the officer* who took part therein, and whore _-d - ^ >• - •. :J W t l M / % - • ' ' • • • • v -w .*.__ descendant« were s till living, was exceedingly interesting# 55# •• » > •r- ■ x 't . t ' . ‘ * • . . frequently walked past Apsley Houee, which me presented by the- 1 - British Sation to the Duke of Ttollingtcn, at which in after ysar* . • '■ ’’ ’ $ T v (hiring iqy long oonneotion with our legation and (aubaequently Echassy) - 54 • -- v.»:. ' K : . ' *, I ■> ? f **■ ' v t j . res li tat ion that ths History of ^ngtend and our own wore tho »am up to 1776, and that there was far bora in connon between _ they, so far as 1 can remiaber* walk cuch lath® streets » K: • / >; ^ : . • • •- ? -i- •.•)• ■ \ : ■ % g ;. -V 'early erery lady of any isportsnoe wont out to dinner in what ' . % ft - ^v^- 'T.r.’ • '.••■■-¿v’-* ';-s ’ • ' ¿vi.‘ r’* „• * «;<, ., ... v K- wa* known as a chariot - a largo two seated carriage swung on and ono or raare footesn standing up behind* . : - z. v/.' - In the uonth of fe.rch, 1868, wo a ll went to Paris, and I s h a ll never forg et tay chagrin upon landing at Boulogne, vhithor w's h;.d crossed from Folistono, at discovering that I was unable to understand a word of Fra nob - as spoken by ths natives of that country, and especially the conductor of the train, the porters, cct* Ever since learning French a6 a child of seven, I had spoken it with xsy »other, and supposed that I was ftiirljr, . r proficient in that language, but the intonation and the accent s 1 ^ . . • . - • .• . -- f p -’h\, - which I learned fron her were so different froa those I heard in - if^ud' ^ • • _ > - ' - - * Pranoe that I was unable to understand the ldtcr* In a few - *•/ > - : - ' • - 35 - A .j,C - - » -■>: : Z& ■ / . a : •• 2 - & . rVV^ch ’ :■ -4 i- V’V- y;^1 ’" * r- / 0 » The fWir^ly took 'an apa.rtn;ant in th e hue G alileo and a r t or ro«s.Lning th ere a t a v ronths , extra Fortunate to obtain*- ' * The school, known sé the Institution /-ubert «* Sarary, ha.* longv?/ C .... . - vr • - - ' ! .. ».• W* . I t y knowledge of the Frenoh language and becane quite an adept >; in French Graan*r\ be* idea taking course* in French literature - ■ ■ • • * r ' ' .t • - •~ • i ■ -■ ■ -.■ V ?■' - '•••.- -r-. t tn<\ ' •. .* . ■ . history, geography end other useful tranche* of knowledge - a ll ‘.¿1 of course inyths Fronch language, which latter h-# boan of the greatest use to nc during ty nany years of service ar a Diplomatist» ISy. younger brother, Julian, and our. oousin.Charlo* kindly priests# 1' An onnlbue uieod to'eocie'and take then to ^ ’ v ' ' ? ; -: ;■. 3 / ■ .. ? ..- .. ' n ■: \ : . /; -- •; £ *■•£ : school and bring than fioon again every day* • ... ■C. ’ Kothing could be core different fron the Amorioan 1‘- sohoole than those of France* There were no ball or othor a ll day with only half an hour ** interrai for what was te-msd K *- ‘c - ' Ì i s“ ' m . . . v.: * . . v : ^ - : . Ss&f&gai -M - ; .x, ... 4 are creation", but ¿bring which no ganes were allowed, and only calking about in the res rent ion yard, which was not very exciting* : ' - - * . . • a* -hi boys '«sro of the french bourgeois cl&ae, eons of well ' ¡3* ' ‘ to do ire deacon in th e Rue do la P a ir, and th o re v e re one or iwo'>-./: ; " ‘ ff ; . ; . V -'._ g - ■ ' * • ' ' English pupil*, and about a* tr-ny Ahsrio&ns, one of whoa, Aaron • ' - . ■ - ■_t v.- * *4 - -■ - v considerable wealth, whose slater was the wife of Adrdral Emory* Ifjr school days in Paris - and indeed the only school- •' ■••• • - -■ ' is' '- ■■■ " at.? 1 • ■ . ■ day* of srv Ilf* - lasted iron the Spring of 1865 u n til the end - of sohool tern 1867, when X rene&bor taking a nuaber o f p r i s e s ;^ ' - - . - • ■ - -v- • • ’ ; ’ one of then being for geography, in which 1 was sorsjahat pro- floient especially in the caking of rope • At that tins, whatever my be the ease now, InBtructior. in geography in Frehoh Schools, was United r the nost part to geography of Frt-noe, which wa* * very well taught, and I rercnber peering an emciins-ticn on a rap of France, without arqr ti&gob, which involved a knowledge of the P refect eighty-nine In number, a very each larger nuaber of Sous — . __— prefectures| beside* all the rivers, railroad*, nas»* of the eighty-nine department*, and much else bos Ides* In looking back upon those days, and even my whole l i f e , I do not think th a t 1 over had anything so perfectly pictured upon my brain, as the rap of Franoe, as that oountry was before the loss of Alsaoe - Lorraine* ■ t - 57 - — . j , j . * *■, h _i » « 1&S7 vu ths jw of tba gre&t International Exhibition and tha lost of those whloh presented very distinct ira national • * lr* £ -y tT*r »*'• • ; [j - " -*• 3 -■* ' £, " : , features ofthe countries whioh «era there represented* - Several '• - ■— ■ • '*■ 7. *' » . »>* . v’1 y‘r Zv .;■ "'.■¿a *=■ tì» f1** ■ijt'v' /* - •■* » a. ^ y- » •" - - ■* • ' - • . • .• . - : y-V •. ' ' . - v E •• ^ v / v cacherà of ths f&nllv» Including* m salf, obtained season tickets a upon Bora or leas as a parvenu* among ths sovereigns of Europe, . ' : • • • ■ ■ “ received visits from a ll of thsa, and Z wall renaisber seeing tbs nrofleseton* o f vhtnh M ail of* f.tnlin' «mmmi ima » a m f'io «M ii*» " nnnn * ' 7-< ' - < ■ . . . r~ - - T x. \ . k- - ■ . : . Z - - Among tha first vs re tha Eaporor Alaxandar II of Fusela, *» - • - ■ • -V . ' . ■ - : • • •.. ; v- ,-«*• who was by far tha handsomest end nest dlstlngulsbdd-looking member of a Eoyal or Xnperial House, who» I bava ever Been, and at * th s bobs tine Elng Fill Has of Prore la, who four years later, as a result of the Fronco-Ocrran war, b&ctca the first 0orinan ieperor o f Modern tin e s» t - , - - — r ~ I shall never forget the groat scene In the T&lals de l'Industria on the oooaelon of the distribution of prises tò :v tha exhibitors, which » -a s performed by tha Enperor, and o f whioh ' • ■ ; ’ / ' ■ g •. -v.' r ; : • • - • } he mdo as great a oorenony as possible* ,-Yv - ’ y •• . * • • ' ’ *.V. -v r ■ -» ‘ ; - Among his cost dlctlngulehod guests, were the Sultan of Turkey, the Prlnoe of ivies (afteriarde King Edward V ii), and ' -58- i i '• ! - ♦ *» »W.ijiK: considerable length for the aforeBaid ‘pcreenag©»| but » great cloud saa cast over < ^ t iht Enpercr Intended to be a joyous oooaelonj by^. , • - • * - • iha new» o f t h o execmtion a t C-uoret&ro In Vcxlco o f tho X z p z ro f - t: ~ ■’ > - •• • jj - ► .' • . - . 3 . • - - ‘ • ' feodsiliah, whoa E&poleos III fed plaoed upon thethro»« of that country' . • i ■ ■■ •*■.' V Aissrloa would be won by the South, and thought It cafe to de^p the ; • , 1 M $ Z S H I of our goremaoRt»' W our c it U rar,^ ; h. •' . . realised hi« eistalce and w»e forced to withdraw bis troop* from r - '.*j . ,, . - — —- - — . >■ % . * _. " . _ r:.-Tn-; ^ Kcxloo, rathor than faoe a war w ith the United S ta te « , whose arry - was than very strong, and not yet disbanded* Poor l^xinilian could have ^retired with the French troop*, but loyalty to hie • i'axican adherent« prevented hin from doing so, and his life 'v ejT cacrlfiood aa a result* ; _Z . __ - t _ *■ » ■ - • - n . - -V* ”--»Y, _-rz.?';;VVfg -v T" ^ I ’* 7- ‘ • < V'' -•— • v z ' , ^ ■■ - :*•• r •* - . ir • - ■'•*,'•; In the year 1867, although only a little over «erenteie# . . '■: • ■*. - a •“ • .• T l' . • *■%./ * V . ' - • - - r J ;v - • ' 1C1L '• r: '; * ’ ■: v • ^ - r i* • - ^ : : ■ •, year« o f ago, but being a« t a l l a« 1 b&ve ever s in c e , I begaa-'.;/?0v*.>. . i - ? .c 1- ■'V • ■ - to go into society* In view of the exceptional opportunities which that year afforded for seeing the worldt I attended various 1 i .* . .. . which I hive tho noct distinct recollection as one of the greatest state functions that t have attended, was the groat toll given by the prefect of tho Peine, inron toueenann, and the iiinlcipality of Pari* a t the Old Hotel de V illa (which was destroyed by the Conraina in 1671) to tho Knperor Napoleon, and the two sovereigns who happened to be visiting hia at that tine, tho Kussian teperor, and tho King of Prussia, the forcer was aoconptinlcd by IYince Gortschakoff, who was then considered one o f the loading statesm en o f Europe, and tho King by Prince Sismrck, -cunt Eoltko, ar.d other erinont Prussians, who were instrunanta 1 a few years later, under the guidance of rrinco Bisn&rck, in tho foundation of the 0 roan Erpira, The eceno was one of great briilianoe, and rsist have cost the Municipality an enornous sun* <• lthough having no connection with the Anarlcan legation, I rersnber, as the carriage in which I slowly approached the Hotel de Villc n the way to the to ll, seeing that of General I Dix our Minister fco France drive cviftlv bv, and convincin'- the police who were keeping tlie slow lino in which I was, that I was a part of the general suite* thereupon he let our carriage pall out of lino, and we follov.ed that of tho t ia:rican Minister to tho Diplomatic entrance of tho great building; thereby reaching the ball probably an hour or core earlier than would have been possible had our oar i&ge remained in tho lino* The Avenue V ic to r ia , leading up to tho Hotel do Villo was hril'i' ntly illuminated, with lights of oven/ color in festoons, hugo stars placed at different points, and so w-6 tho b e a u tifu l fhcado i t s o l f * Thors wore s ta te q u a d rille s, a ctato supper for the royalties and distinguished p rs-nages in ono of th8 largo rooms of tho pals.ce, and I vac sufficiently entertained to ram in until four o'clock in tho Borxing, long after the day h“d dawned, when i t w e ircpoBcibla to find our carriage, and *e had to walk p art o f the way bona» Anong th e guests o f whoa I saw a good deal in after life, on that occasion, wac liiss Helen kucsel of Kow York and Newport, who afterwards rarried Outroy, the French diplomatist; the latter becoming Minister to taehington sono years afterwards; also Jir» Beckwith of Hew York, American ConniEsioner to tho Exhibition, whose daughter, Helen, then known and for r&ny years afterwards by her nans of 'Baby Beckwith*, a beautiful girl, who remained unmrried for many years, and finally became the wife of the eldest son of Lord Leigh of Ctonoleigh Abbey, noar Lemington - a title to which he subsequently succeeded» There vac another nagnificint ball, of which I have a distinct recollection, at the jfelace of the Tuileries given by tho Emperor and Empress for Bone of their royal guests; the chief ir.prcsEion left upon ms is the n rvellouE illumination of tb?.t portion of the Gardens of the TuilerioE reserved for the Imperial family. It vub thus that I made ny entry into the great world, with which I have been connected noro or loss ever since» In the autumn o f 1857, i t tran sp ired th a t we could no longer retain the delightful apartment fio. 6 de Presbourg - which still (1925) exict8 - and it then beo&oe a question whether it would be most advantageous fron an educational point of view for us to Epond tho following winter at Dresden or Fora» For sor» - 41 'ties it eeerad &6 though tho forced would have been selected, but an ;.rerican doctor in rtris, - t friend of ths family, announced one day that a very alarming diceaEe bad broken out there knotm as tho "Bnoezuna" - I can hardly think of it near without laughing - as tho story had no foundation whatever, the result was, cirosdon vat abandoned, and I thereupon lost the oho nee of attaining proficiency in tho German language, Eone having boon decided upon, for the winter 18G7-8. h'e proooeded thither by rail to Hico, and as the line was not then conplotod to Genoa, and the boat which ran between Kioo and Genoa did not eeen attractive on a rough sea, wo chartered an entire dilignooo •• stage coach - which accomplished the journey by tho Oorniche Load, in twenty-four hours, starting in tho evening. I e a t under the big hood behind the d riv e r, and f e l t pretty cold during the night watches. Ag »8 carried tho m il, v.9 had to stop at every town through which m e passed» It happened to be a moonlight n ig h t, and the views o f the ited iter- ranean at tisos we® very beautiful, as they were throughout the whole o f tho follow ing day. A fto r remaining a day to two in Gonou, vo took the train, via Leghorn and Pisa to Lore diroot, arriving late in tho evening, and proceeding to the hotel ) d’Ar.gleterro, in one of the narrow Etreets of the Vi* Condotti. Thortly liftorvarriE we roved to a large and comfortable apartment a t Ho. 42 Via O rogoriana, on the Pincio I l i l l , whence a superb view was obtained of the city, vii.k the dors of 2?t. Peter’s in the - 42 distance, and the cany other tcv.ars, obelisks, and tho distant hlllc across the Tiber which are tho glories of Ions« i.G rondinod there racrc than six nonths, and I do not think that I tove ever known a city at hone or abroad as thorough ly as I got to know the hone of that day, probably owing to the f a c t th a t I explored i t on f o o t. Towards Spring, probably as a result of walking everywhere, and in oold streets, without as the Horrois do, patting on & coat rhon going out of the sun, I got the F.omn fever in April, and fron that tine onmrd I »'as not allowed to circulate nuch on foot. Since thon, as a result of drainage, the clearing out of unhealthy spots in various parts of th9 oity, eto., Kone tos beooao as healthy a placo of residence as any other city, and Poran fever, fron v.hich so mny Lnglish end Africans died during the first half of the nineteenth oentury, tos not boon heard of for nany years. I have tho happiest recollections of that tinier and spring in hone, which was thon and rer&ined for three years longer under the dominion of the Pope. Its custom were mich tbs sane as they tod boon for centuries; the Cardinals drove about daily in scarlet state Ctoriots, and usually got out to walk on the Pinclo or oor their carriages, when their casters wore driving. i -19 ^°P° occasionally was tho center of a great procession xaore or less nodieval in its features; mny of those participsting therein being arrayed in costuras of tho 15th century, and tho procession itsolf being headed by an ieportont functionary, whose nano I forgot. - 45 rcountod on a kuI c , gaily cnjjarlBcned in its harness and ornasentiition of itB bridle« At that tino Uisr, Emily Harper, a sender of one of the old Honan Catholic ftnilioB of itrvland,and a friend of cy family's v.-vb in ¿¿one, and through hor I wuc brought in contaot with mny shining lights of the Vatican; among then Cardinal Antons111 tho very astute papal Eeoret&ry of Ltate, who vtue an exceedingly interesting character, and w. s at that tine engaged for tho most part in the endeavor to ward off tho impending absorption of the Pupal Ltutefi by the newly forced Kingdom of Italy, whioh cars to paE3 three years later, as a result of the Franco-Prussian Vmr* As a result of Fits Kurper'fc influence with the Vatican authorities, I attended with her all tanner of inter sting ceremonies - mny of tiien nor© or less private, in the List ir.e chapel, and in cany of tho churoh.E - eoejo of there little known - of Her»« Fy cousins % and I wore often feooospanied by "lias Fanny Lyrscn, daughter of the lu?v. Dr. Lyman, at that tino l ector of the -~*r>3ricun Epiccopal Church in Lone (whose brother in cid e n ta lly was a w ell known and highly respected !!o»n Catholic priest in Saltinoro) and by other friena6 and contemporaries of cure at that tlm« in homo«' Dr« Lynan subsequently became Bishop o f Forth Carolina and hie daughter married a nenbor of Congress from that 8tato# but diod not very long afterwards to ny regret. For father v.ua very koen about rtd:ing exp ed itio n s, ana I remember p a rtic u la rly one which ve t*ide with hiia and a party of friends to Tivoli« De a s especially good at oatoring on those occ eions, and I can - 44 ronenber new the lueoiousness with vhioh ho ate - as indeed we all did - the tooths one dishes which ho succeeded in causing tbs cook of the quaint and otiwjrwi&e not oonfortable inn at Tivoli to ppoduoe* to uI eo nado a nurcbor of excursions with the British archaeological Society to r&ny sites in the neighborhood of Eone, lunching usually at ona of the large villas not fn-r fron the place wo were to v i s i t * 1^' a p p etite was p a r tic u la r ly good on those occasions and I am afraid that I hive a better recollection of the tdcirtble cold lunches than of the archaeological interest of those occasions* In those days the Roths of Caracalia tere & favorite ruin, and certain ports of that regained of the vast structure wore more a cce s cib le than I found then to bo upon returning to l one thirty-coven years after«:'rds* I tsuct have had a very steady \ hedí, not at all addicted to giddiness, as I used to climb up by ruined staircases to wi«at then renainod of toes of the vault ing and jump a cro ss openings th e re in from one ruin to an o th er. I often vender now that I did not fall to the ground in performing one o f those fe a ts * 'V.'e had an audience w ith the Pope, Pius IX, whose reign lasted for nany years longer, and was I believe the longest in the history of the papacy* The Popo had a kindly and benevolent face; but his knowledge of /.raorica was coraovhat United, as I remember hie asking a f t e r the h ealth o f one or two publio can who had been removed to another ephoro several years previously* 45 iihisreby, I an sorsewhat reminded o f the disappointment expressed this year (1S2&) by tho daughter of the Governor of Kow York, on her fcctum from hoc» vharo tho had an audience with tho present Pope Pius XI, because Its had never heard of her father. Incidentally the present Pope, (who is a rs^n of considerable erudition and distinction, and wee in hie younger day« a groat isountain cliri>.*r^ was the papal representative to Poland at the ctTne tiao that «Tack (ny 8 on), vac charge d'affaires at 7.&rsaw. The latter hat since told me that, at a critical nooent in the history of tl» net/ Polish Republic, when the arnies of Bolshevik Russia had invaded Poland, (b&ing within twenty kilonetors of the Capital) tJicre were nuuorous r-isetings of the Diplomatic Party at the Papal Legation, tho Papal Representative boing the dean thereof, with a view to deciding on the stops which should be taken in tho Vuont of the capture of Farcaw by the invading forces. Upon leaving Rors, which I re me rarer we did, with very great regret anti vrith the hap Lest nersories of our delight ful sojourn there, we all went to Florence for a short stay, and there wo caw for the firet tiuo King Victor Frruiuel, originally King of Piedmont, under whom Italy had then been united, with tho exception of the Papal ftatcc. Tho King’« appsur&nce w&6 unything but pleucing, and I shall never forget it* Mo v-s very bloated, and hie complexion a bluish gray; but ho wse driving in a bouutifully turned out victoria in the Ca»oine, to which I had often been takon as a child ten years before, during th9 winter - 43 *• iw - * . when ay rather with hor children cara to Florence. co ap letely ohimged« ' Th« o ld w all* bad disappeared to n&ke 'way • ^ > for broad boulevards, and a vast population for which the city wus that of Italy ever e ln c o . . - *• . . - - - • • „ - ■ ' • ' - ' • ‘ * " After leaving Elorenoe, I went with ey step-father for a trip through Geratny, while icy notbor, grandfather, and brother (the Eidgely'-boys haring been sent for by their parents while wer were in Eots^nd taken hpiae by th e ir co u sin , Barry Howard) went straight to Paris. H y step-father fend I spent a «uk at Vienna, and than vent to Dresden, where ve found tha F.ev* Dr- Lyc&n o f Eoaa and hie family, and E&de nurarous expedition* to tha place» of interost in Dresden, and by boat on the Elver Elbe to "Saxon - r . •. ' ■ . . ■ ■ , ■ • ’ - • Switzerland". Thence ve proceeded to Berlin vhloh at that time retained the characteristic* of a provincial capital. Th* custoa at the hotels time to dine at a table D'hote at one o'clock, the - 47 - ■- - ’ v *. ■ V ♦* i C- i - r r.'v. the lon^Est tixa« K' Froa Berlin t?s treat to Cologne, Brussels, end back to Revolution took jiao© 1» Spain# as the result of uhich Queen -; distinct recollection of a picture which appeared of bin In the . to a public building on b is way' • g to recognise officially the nssr Spanish Ceverncont# in behalf of ;v that of the United States# The Secretary of tha Legation happs-ned to be John Kay, who had been .Assistant Secretary to President Lincoln during the tier, and was cany years aftersards to b® on® of sy chiefs in London as Asbaasador to Great Erltainj he died in tha early part of this century as Secretary of State, which he had boon under Presid ents ¿¿cKLnley and loosevelt# ‘ - - ' * •' *:4 . ■ '■ ' % •. \ •' ' - - . i ■ « *- . v >•-. ♦ - * • i -y r .> - . In the autum of 1668, tay rather, stop-father, and baby *•' - ,* \ "" ''■ ’ • • V ■ • ' ;v.-V ¿ 0 - '••V half brother (whose birth la Iferifl on the let of February, 1867« X * i. . ' • omitted to cant Ion at the proper place) sailed for Aasrioa aboaVd „ •- . - . _ . •' - • .. S,-* ' . ■ >/V. - • ' ~ ■■. f. - Vs the Steamship Scotia (previously referred to as the last of the Cunnard piddle steamers) on tho third of October* Uy grandfather# visit to John Pussell Buckler, a distant connect ion of cy stsp-fathor, . r - ‘tn. — « end hi» feslly , at Ctroud in Gloucestershire* whensa wo proceeded •' . •• to r&zis* end reclined tbero for tho »Inter* ¥«r wero provided ; ■ • fl ", . -. ■ - 7 V 7 ' ■ with a quaint old tutor by the nasa of £trothsr inertia £nith, e ■■ . r- *- . ' - .. r _ ' **i - y>_ . , - x * , " " - ' . . fellow of St* Catharine*« College* Canbrldga* ; S o w a* a learned ; 7 ' — boa vena, and 1 can renember no?» hie queer old face. with a e Ingle i-.; -. e.-: . ; • , -,r^ . - £ /■ : • ' :/V, ■...-* -■/■:'• ' u 7 . - ' ; ^ £ * 5 ? eye glass, peering out of windows at the heavens* Es ns« also *' i •--,-*.-7"^ »W. • ? : —r * • •'»i. ‘ ,1 . ' *!• ’ Il"' •- •*- : * that sy brother and I derived nora acusoncnt than learning froa hi« .'■ '••« • ■ •- .■ s ' ' . instruct Ions* On the whole, however, vs spent a pleasant winter, being provided with bicycles of tbs old wooden-shoe 1 typo, with a single springvcn which the saddle was placed, funning froa an iron e ■ fixturd over tie hind wheal to a Einilar fixture over tie front wheel, into which the handle-bar was inserted* There were a number of Anerioan families in Faria that winter - among them Ur* and Ur«» Bonjanin Kush and their dfeughters, In the same house with us, of »U •> ' J ' whoa I saw a good deal, and the two daughter«. Cassie ahd l&ry, "7 - ~ ■K**l - . • ' ' - A- T:-y .. ft became. . life long• friend«* In Uay 9 of 1869 I returned to America • »f* / - * •»-•...... T for the first time since our departure thence in January 1656, end after spending a fow pleasant weeks at Kanpton and paying a fov rt; . . . . *- “ « “ - . • ■- ^ s ■; • .. T-- •. • • . . : s? - ,-"4 ** fX % youngor brother in Kurppo* to grant a considerable extension of fra od on of tha press, and i .. •: . : , -- ’ - : • • ¿T - . . ; •' t*‘* . ’ i ^ - VV‘ v:-^\V'wit * r •' , .. V - . ' sho» othsr signssigns of libéralisé, libéralisa, of which the chief Indication ' "'^ ' was tha appointment for the first tins in the history of the Bocond e s p ir e , o f a so re o r le s s L ib eral M inistry, beaded by ÎU tri le O llirier, who tip to that tira had been an opponent of tha Imperial government In the Ch^sbor of Dopait le s, but era. s induced by the persuasive pewers of the Esps-ror, to undertake the taeje pensanontly established« ’ Unfortunately in that ninistry, tha " portfolio of foreign affairs was assigned to the Duo de Gramont . •.. -jà m m .. • , ? 6 0 -"V':.' V-: V-: «i The history of that period hss boon so fully written that I need not dwell upon it, but in later years, when I was ¿ucbasc.ii.uor to F ran ce, lir. O lliv ie r vts.e still living, and I had many interesting talks with his, on the events of that disastrous year for France, and for himself personally, as hs war always blamed by h is fellow countrymen fo r the d isa s te rs which bo fo i l then in 1870. its had tho firm conviction that, but for the war of 1870 tho constitutional form of goverment might havo been established under the Empire, and would have been on the whole the best th in g fo r Fr&r.oe* I remember his giving me a graphio description of the way in which the war was brought or., as he believed by the Empress and the Duo de Grammont between them* Tho question ct issue, as every one kno^s, was the oandidi-oy of Frinoe Leopold of liohenzollern - Sigmaringcn, for the throne of Spain, which bismarcl: had been urging in behalf of the German government, but which had been finally vithdrav.n» br* Ollivior assured me, and such I think was the general opinion P.t ths tine, that the withdrawal of Prince Leopold’s candidicy closed the incident, fend all danger of war had been averted, he described to me in graphic terms his horror, when taking a well: one fcunday evening, a t th a t p erio d , and dropp&ng in by D3M chance at the Foreign Office to see if there was any interesting foreign news the», at hearing from tho Duo that ho had boon to S t . Cloixd th a t aftern oo n , and had been ordered - SI - ■ < by the Enperir to send a telegram to oorlin, which ho had dono, demanding th a t in ad d ition to the withdrawal o f the candid-'-cy of tho Prince of Hohensollorn - l igmaringen, a guarantee should be {riven by tho German government tliat at no future tine would the renewal of his candidacy or of that of any other Gerran Prince for the throne of Spain, bo renewed* Although at the tine li. Ollivier mde this statement to no (1908 or 1909) nearly forty years had elapsed since the events which he was describing; the horror and vividness with which he described the edfeot upon his mind of what the Due de Qranncnt to ld him th a t Sunday evening, seemed to ne ts real as though it had occurred within a recent period* hot only it seems had tho Foreign Minister been told to send the telegran in quocticn, but a special messenger had been sent to the Vufcl d* Orcay, at seven o'clock in the evening to uscertain whothorthe order had boon carried out* Hr. Ollivier said of course‘he recognised as a result of this indescribable folly th a t war was in e v ita b le , and th a t the plans which he had formed _ and believed he could have carried out for the remodeling of the French government on a liberal basis, were bound to fall* What happened th e re a fte r is to well known that I need not say anything fu rth er on tho su b jeo t, and ny reason for mentioning the war of 1870 at all Is because of ny talks with tho nan who had been Prime Minister of France at the time, but who had no hand, as I chill always believe, in bringing it on* , In this connection, it nay fce of interest to mention a aeetlng which I brought about at luncheon at the Embassy at 62 th a t tin s between If. O iliv le r and our own John Bigelow. Vr• Bigelow hah baoa American Minister to France in the middle sixties of tho last century, and had known Hr. O llivier, when he was the active opponent of the Empire, and they had apparently been great friends» 7ho latter was still in oppodtlon then Hr* Eigelow retired fron our legation at Fte.ris, and returned boras in 1655 or 57* They had never net s in c e , and I asked then both to lunch alone with no as previously stated* I greatly regret not to have E2.de notes of the talk between these two interesting men of conditions in France and olsewhore forty years before; but there is one rem ri that has remained with me ever since, node by l¿r. Bigelow as ce tore leaving the dining rocn» Hr* Ollivier who was quite d eaf, k; s walking Jut t ahead o f u s, when Hr. Higolcra said to re: "Ollivier has just rumarked th 't the I :r\pc ror Ka pole on was a great % gentleman* Ho nay havo been that fron certain points of view, cut all that I can cay is be was the darnedest liar that I ever cane across"• I t w ill be remembered th a t i t was Hr* Bigelow vho, ac 1‘inistar to France at tho close of our Civil tar, foroed the with drawal by the French government bf tho French troops in Hoxico, thereby causing tho f a l l o f th e In p o rlal Government which the Emperor hud set up in that country under 1-b.ximilian, a younger brother o f the bmperiDr o f A u stria* it further circumstance in connection with Hr* Blgolow, / cmy be mentioned here» lie vox In the habit of coming to Europe and to France, during the later years of hie life, and attendod the Fourth o f duly rcooptlon a t tlie i.rh&tEy- in 1&0S, which r t s given by his successor, cr/oelf. His presence was reac.rba.ble for tho fust that over forty years had elapsod sines he had been tho representative of our country in France, and I doubt whether thoro is any precedent for the attendance of a former diplooatie . ' _ 1 representative of any country at an entertainment given by his suooossor in the sac» country effcor an interval of that length of tin»» I had a real admiration for Jir. Bigelow, who was a find old speoinon of a patriot, and hie memoirs, which appeared not * long after hie doeth, ».ero well worth reeding, froa a historical point of view particularly» It rev be as well stated horo that I had reacted the age of nineteen years, without giving the t lightest thought to any future career,* or being cc far as I oan renenber, in any way interested in myself, except with s view to getting as much cnioynont out of life as por.siblo, which I did then, and I think have done ever s in c e , noro or less» In those days the idea of Hccrvioe" cue not generally entertained, end I had been brought up by tay grandfather and a y mother to foe 1 that if a i*.n were a "gontlonc-n" and was forticiate enough to have the prospect of inheriting an incono cufficlontly largo to enable him to live comfortably, even if not luxuriously In any country, he r.oed not concern himself with any publio work, or any other kind of work» And a y brother and I were always to ld th a t such would be our - 54 condition. '.¡hile re «rare in tone, the then hand caster of Uppinghaa Lchool in F-nglend, the lev* T. 2. Rowe, those rife vug & distent connection of r y stepfather's, happened to be there also, end', realising the Inch of aspiration «kich we had in rognrti to any profession or fork for the future, he stro n g ly advised our going to the U n iversity of Cambridge in Engird. I5y mother had always a great objection to univerGities in general, of which it. is fair to state that she hod no knowledge or experience except that her brother rent to Ih-rvurd, whore sho c-aid that ho learned nothing but to s.aoko, and night hc.yo learned to drink, only fortunately he was not inclined that way. It ir. also fair to add, that it nas not considered as indispensable as it is nos?, for young sum of good fam ily and p o sitio n in our country t c go to a university, as it has since become, \ however, tc the result of the persuasion of the ¡-.ev* It . Fiona the head master aforesaid, she consented, arid ry grand father acquisced to opening negotiations vith one of the Tutors of Trinity toll ego, Cambridge, with a view to my entrance there one or two years la te r * Uo «while, however, having begun to "go out" La socioty in lb.ric during tho follov/ing winter, and especially the winter after, which was probably very bad for ne - the late hours ot least - I began to show signs of getting into a delicate 6tato of health, and it war. decided that the project of going to Cambridge should bo abandoned* - Bn IJy father had at on early age, gone Into abet vac then uoaoribed os a "d o c lin e ", fron which he h*d d ied , and cy nothcr and grandfather greatly feared th-t I night do likewlce. • % iistHwhilo, and notwithstanding tho eynptono in question, I rouanbe-r very mch nn^oying the winter of I860 -70, and particularly tho extraordinary brilliancy of the Spring of tho latter yr-ar in Paris. Thon otiae tho war of 1870, which broka out during our residence at tho Lhi&on rbe:rtane, the* place we h»d taken at Trouville on tho Coast of Hcrnandy. • hilo tho vur vac in progress a Revolution took plnco and tho Trap ror was dopocod, as a rosult of which tho enpress (chon he had cudo Kegont o f Ironed, during his absence a t th® seat of war) vac obligod to take fliglrt, and was conducted by hr. kv ns, the,ijaer loan lent let, in hie private carriage .froa - laris to Treuvillo, In the barbar of Tro’w illo, th-.ro war a■ that tihe a yacht cn.iiod by Sir John iiurgoyne, an l.nglish baronet, on which I happonad to bo tolling tea in tie ufterooon of tho day on which, late in tho evening tho : npresc and hr. Evans arrived at Trouvillo, of which circumstances I of course had no knowledge then aboard tlio ’ G aso llo *. The next earning which v.as vory ctorrny, I happened to got up early and to flook out of cy v. lndow, which faced tho boa, and to cy groat surprise, as b heavy gale r-8 blowing at the tino, I sob the yacht on which I had been the i previous evening, sailing out to bob botv.een tho wooden p ie r s , which ran out for com distance on either sido of tho channel. - 5G I r.ue tho core surprised ug Fir John Burgoyns had told ns t}jnt they proposed romining for cc-mo days at Tro’-villo, and it struck no Etrnngo that they should change their rind bo cuddenly, especially in then of the gale which war blowing et tho tine* Tho yacht was e. yav.l, and not a, large one either, eo th a t n y H8toni6haont can bo o d d ly understood* However I thought no noro of tho ex*ttor, until throe or four days later when the London Tines arrived with a telegr&a from its correspondent, at Kydo, lelo of ..irht, Eaying that the ^Caeelle" had arrived there the evoning before, with the T n pross Fugenie on board, nftor a very Btorny paecage* It then transpired that I had boon a w itness o f tho departure o f th a t august person fron Trance. It cecnfl that fir ,’ohn Burgoync had been induced to take on board, and to face tho dangers of the Channel, owing to a fear th a t unless the hnproBs could be got out o f Ira.no© \ ” im ediately, she would have been arrested, and p rhaps barn right have been bo fa lion her, c.e the prejudice fcgainct her in view of the alleged sinister influence v/hich cha was supposed to e x o rcise on the IPnperor, was vory Gtrong* In those days thore used to bo - and I believe there ctill is a boat running every day between Havre and Trouvillo, and i t was frequently used during th a t autumn by Aborto ns and others who wore leaving Franco becauco of the war* I used frequently to Thatch the dopirturo of those boats, and to root frien ds o f nino on th o ir way to Ingland v ia H avre,’ whence they chould obtain a night boat to Southampton* - 67 Anong those pasEongere, I to ll rerarber Hr£• .Toron3 o f Lew vo rk , who kls than living In Paris, and her threo daughters, the second of vhon nnrriod t few years l^ter. Lord Pandolph Churchill, and entered upon 6 career In England, which 16 to ll Imortm* fhe was greatly admired and had a large circle of friendEj her husband subsequently boooring a Cabinet Einistor, and both of then being well known in London f ooiety; especially in what was Inform rb the ’’Prince of V.clec" or tho”i.fc.rlborough Louse Get"» Throughout t cse autum norths (1870) the news of a series of disasters to the French amies arrived in rapid succession but I renenbor an interesting incident, characteristic od? the Trench, which took place at the Le&uville races of that year, near Trouvllle. I attended then on horceback, riding a delight ful grey naro, named Fanny, which :sy grandfather had bought in England a ^couple of years before, for me to ride in itris» After one cr tvro racoc had been run, there vac a sudden pauee in the procood lira's, and eventually a considerable amount of shouting and excitement, to which ray attention was first called when I happened to bs at almost the farthest point of the m ce- cour6o from the grandstand» I galloped across the oourse, and found th a t tho exciteraont was caused by a rumor which had ^uat reached the grandstand, to the effect that liirsbal 13ao!5ahon had captured tho Crotm Prince of Prussia, and 20,000 prisoners, an event which if true noant a turning in tho tide of the w ar, and posoiblo viotory for tho French Army* The racing cast have been i - 68 Euepanded fo r no re th in an hour while the shouting went, on, and during that tine I rode back hastily to Trouville, to see whether any news such as had been c irc u la tin g on the race co u rse, had been received thore. I found that nothing whatever had been heard of it, and, as the Casino was the pltoe at which all news telegrams - which by the by were very fersr in number in those days in France - were p o E t e d , thore wr.8 little probability of the reports being true* However, I oonsunicated wh-t I had heard to a comparatively aim.ll number of numbers of tho Casino, who re then not at the races, and they also indulged In a considerable outburst of applause. Nothing further wsb hoard on tho subject during the renminddr of that day, but the enthusiasm on the d>-y before was considerably crushed the next morning by the report of a further Prussian v ic to r y . It was not long after that incident that the Lmporor ♦ Hapoleor. Ill and a large arx^y surrendered at led&n - an event soon followed by the fall of the Empire, one of the results of whioh was the flight of the repress and her abrupt departure in the rddtt of a raging storm on Sir /John Iiurgoyne’s yacht tho *Ouse lie", which I have previously described. Y.e remined until quite late in the autumn at Trouville, * and I used to ride for considerable distances over the oountry, in which so far little or no evidenoe appeared of any war, except th a t every onoo in a while I would cone a cro ss d itch es which had been dug acro ss roads and covered by temporary boarding which oould be removed quickly with a view to stopping the advance 59 of a hosti1c arcy. kvontually ko all tool: the boat fron Trnuville to Havre and sailed fhenoe for fcouthar.pton, fron which place we proceeded to Torquay, on the Eouth coaet of Itevonshire, there cy uncle CharloG hidgely, hie r i f e and f a n ily , who had decided to ! oke a year’s trip abroad, joined us, ana we forced quite a large partyj It was at Torquay that I firEt went out hunting, and incidentally mn^-ged to run a stake into the leg of ny unfortunate ss.re, Fanny. Being alrost a thoroughbred, she vn*.:. wholly unfitted for that country of high banks and ditohee, and after trying this sport a few tines there, we all went to 2>ar:inpton in Tanrickshire, which wes then and s till is one of the oenters of fox hunting. lb s uncle and I used to hire horsos and go out frequently to the ¡VarwicirEhire and Forth -.erwickchire towns, and war during that winter (1870-1) that I acquired a tacto for hunting, which I was fortunately able to indulge during the following eight winters at a better place still for the purpose, to wit: Harket Har bo rough, in I^eicestcrshiro froa which the Pytchlev, the Quom, the fottesnoro, and lir. Taylby’s (shortly ufterwarda changed to hr. “ornie’e) hounds could ail bo i \ reached. * l!y brother and I took a hunting box a t Harborough in the auturm o f 1871 and ner e jo5.ned before the ex p ira tio n of the first season by our second cousin, John Steward and hie wife, a daughter of lire, Janes K. Jones of IIsw York, and a sister of Thr. Fowbold ’"orris. !drs . Jones had died at Ienox during the - 60 - Gixtum of 1871, and the i'tewards tarac abroad shortly after» I hare previously oentloned why I did not go to & university, or "to follcge", as it wtis then usually c&lled in this country» IS' brother Julian had, however, gon9 to Trinity College, Cambridge (England), and his first tern vws about to olose there» Ik) thereupon joined tee at Market Es.-borough» I had always been fond of riding, fron cy early childhood, »hen I UEed to be taken out on a pillow placed over the ponrasl of the saddle on which one o f the groons a t Hampton was rid in g , and I had presorvod ry fondness fo r i t alw ays, l!y b ro th er, on tho other land, never carod much about riding until he left Cambridge, when ho with gr©'t courage, went out hunting with me, having little or no "seat" on a horse; the result being that he began bv fu llin g o ff a t n early cv ry fenoe» lie stuck to it, however, Vrith a pertinacity worthy of a ll prdise, which rraa characterletic of his adherence in after li^e to certain lines o f conduct, end to en terp rises which he had undertaken, the result being that he acquired not only a firm, but e. graceful "seat" and excellent hands, and was able to enjoy the hunting as nuch as I d id , I remember p a r tic u la r ly a black horse called "Devonshire", a wonderful jumper, on which ry brothor looked particularly well in his scarlet coat and white leather breeches, 1 hen onco "Devonshire •&" read had been turned toward the fer.co, nothing could prevent him fron trying to jump It with all his might, in which he was usually successful. I reraembor the - Cl great surprise of fen old friend of ours, Atherton Blight, who happened to pay us a visit at Ii~rkst l&rborough, and T.hoa vs mounted on "D evonshire". B light thought ha would have a look at a junp which soonod rather formidable, with no idea, of attorcpting to jump it. "Devonshire", however, thought other wise, and took a tremendous ^unp, with a considerable drop over a broad ditoh, to the inexpressible surprise of his rider, who had had no previous experience at fox-hurrfeing, but who strangely enough did not fall o^f. I havo the happiest recollections of those old hunting days; not only of the sport, but of the intic».te acquaintance which I was able to obtain of the character and mental attitude of the ¡English people of almost every cites. Fox-hunting in Fngland, unlike the Chaese-a-courra in Franca, or in any other country as far as I an aware, i6 almost indigenous to the soil; every one throughout the countryside in v.hioh there in hunting being interested lr. it. The meets of the hmmds in the different villages wore usually occasions for the coning together of all classes, either on horseback, in carriages - soj2=tin3B oven on donkoys, and the great majority of course, on foot. ■¡rhon tho hounds would move o f f to c o v e r t, th ey would be followed j by this orerwd of people, those on foot, especially in villages which hnptxmed to contain a fa cto ry o f any s o r t , bo trig p a rtic u la rly I onthwsiastio and excitable, ^nd, if the covert happened to bo within a mile or two of the m et, they would often in their enthusiasm — 62 — prevent tha fox from pitting away, and thereby spoil the sport* In those days, it was absolutely Indispensable for an aspirant for election to P.-.rlianont, and also for esnbars of tho house of CounonE for such constituencies to appear from tire to tine in the hunting field, In order to beneited up" by the looal people, and h is e le c tio n would not ir.frequontly depend upon the impression produood under thoB© circumstances by the candidate* The hunting field, as I soon realised, is a wonder ful place of training of character, good cannons, food temper, and ooolnosc of ,1udgaent, and it lias played a very important part in the devoioprient of thoso qualities in tho statesmen and military - not infrequently alto even the Laval non of England* In ray caEs, the nine winders of fox hunting were tho best preparation which I could have had for the tiTcnt^-one V years of Diplomacy of whioh I was subsequently (although I little knes it at the tins^ to have exporisno© in England; r.ot only because of the op ^ortunitior. previously described for aequirinf a thorough knowledge o f tho workings o f the minds o f the d iffe re n t classes, but also for thoiio afforded na of meeting many of the leading nan-of th e p erio d , end a lco o f those who became tr There were e number of interesting country' places with-in reach, at which vo used to bo asked fron tins to tins to stay, either for hurting or for Bhooting, although it was not essentially a “chocting0 country. The flrEt of those country 6*at6 which I remember visiting vac La-port B sll, about eleven rII ob from Kark^-t Lnrboro'igh, whose owner a t th a t tin e was L ir Charles Isb aa, a baronat o f adva-noed yearE who was eminently, kindly and h o cp ita b ls, but of a peculiar turn of nind* Eo had ereoted a great rock-work in the corner of the garden at Lamport, and had placed various parts thereof, and of the caves which ho constructed therein, ssa.ll figures o f gnomes, -bo which he a ttrib u te d vurlous powers and which he u&ed to go and tnkk to, an he ffc.ncied, from tine to tine. Dear old lady Ishan was eminently practical, cn the other hand, and particularly desirous of encouraging fox hunting, which Sir Charles r-ally detested, and I have frequently •’ esr. h in , a f t; r she had taken hire out to the neat, and gotten hin on to hit horse, galloping hone at a furious rate, nftnr he had got cut of her night, to escape from following the bounds, and not Infrequently -to confer with his gnenas. They 1r hcd no son, but two attractive daughters, the younger of when known ___ as Essie, became from the tire of that visit onwards, a great friend o f nine, and even tu ally married the e ld e st son of (who becassa on the death of hin father the) McLeod of McLeod, of Dunvegan Castle -in the Island of £kyo. L:ha was very shy, but had a considerable sense o f humor. There were nunorous things of interest connected with the past a t Lamport H all and I reioenber one o f then very p a r tic u la r ly , viz: the newspaper published in London a day or two after tha execution of King Charles I, and giving an aocount (which I rend with the greatest interest, as my be imagined) of that tragic occurrence. — G4 • The little nsrs-shoet, (as it was called, when printed) was ca re fu lly frsr»d between two gla.Er.oB, and has been preserved in that condition for cany years. 2; struck rsy eye, when coring dovm to breakfast the first morning after ray arrival, which must have boon .lust 222 or 223 years after its publication. I t was in e x ce lle n t co n d itio n . Other country B o a ts within reach of Market Harborough, of which I have happy EjaoorieE, in connection with their owners, and with visits, were Llthcrp, the beautiful seat of Karl Spencer} Rookinr.han Oartlo, tho ancestral homo of the Viafeenna; Cottesbrooke, that of the langhamn; Barley Thorpe, near Oakham; Burloy - on - the - E il1, the former Lord Londsdalo's hunting-Rox, a large country house with stabling for a hun red horses, the latter that of Hr. Finch, a descendant of Lord Chancellor Hatton. Lord and Lady Spencer were splendid specinone of their class, einple and charming in manner, and she very fchndsorz}. He had ,iust returned when I f i r s t went to JeicefterEhire, from a successful term as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and v e greatly admired and beloved by the large body of tenantry of hie extensive estate. ' - . Of tha batsons of Kocklngham I became very fond, and they remained good friends of nino until their premature death not very many years afterwards. Xinfortunately neither the^r nor Lord and Lady p^ncer had any ch ild re n , and those two b eau tifu l and histcrio places have long since passed into the hands of collateral descendants, although they fortunately remained in the h&nd6 of tho respective families. £5 - I ought to havo leant ioned in its proper place, which is jur.t before cy fcz-hur,ting career began, cy first experience at Oxford. Two friends and contemporaries of cine, John Cittings and his cousin, Ocorgo tillian s of Baltimore, were undergraduates of that university at the tine that vo went to England during the Franoo-PruERian Tar, and when we were at Leamington, (April, 1B71) an hour fron Oxford by train, they ashed ns to T ie I t then a t it. John's College, which I did. I knes nothing of the theory and ctill lose of the actual life at Oxford of Cambridge, and I E h o ll never forget th e indelible impression of chare, and of historical and intellectual interest which my stay of a few days with those friends in Et. John’s College, left upon no. It is now more than 55 y^urs since that visit, and I seen to remember sir.ost every detail. At that tine Oxford had not bean very much changed from*.what i t was fo r a hundred or core y srs b efo re ; but the interesting talk in the Common Roonr. of the c o lle g e s a f t e r dinner, the b eau tit1 services in the College Chapels, the boating on the Snis, the semi-monastic character of residence in the old rooms of the colleges, and much else besides rhich it would take too long to describe, hnvo left in ry mind ft cense of charm, which will probably remain throughout ry life. Inoidcnt&lly, I made a * number of friends - notably Frederick de Eeusnarec, of the Island of Guernsey where hie family had been eottlod for centuries, who was at that time an undor-graduato of Pembroke Collego. Ho has been ft devoted friend to ne ever since those days, although circus- Et&no9£ h'TO not been such tut to admit of our rest inn very frequently, out vu have corrocpondod from tine to tino, end still do s o . I s vue for nony years afterwards an Inspector of ' ch o o ls, undor the Britich itoard of Lduoation, end I believe did excellent t-ork in that capacity» Two Lcerican friends of cine were under graduates at the tine at Christ Church, Allen Rice and Lloyd Bruce, and I partook o f a noal o r two in th e ir rooms with then» Klee bece.no eubeequontly E d ito r o f the Lorth American Review, and was curiously enough eucewdcd in that position by Bryce. Rice died tuny years ego (of pneumonia, I think), just af4er htIr.g coon appointed Linintor to Russia. Bryce survived him many years, and curiously enough, lil:o Rica, was also for a short tirar a Linistor plenipotentiary — to itelgiun. Through them I aet several under- gr duates at Christ Church, vho Bftsrrrs.rds becaro friends of cine in England. jnang then, Jiurice de cOn&tsn, afterwards one of the ushers at ry n odding, end the I lxth Lord Lor.derderry, at that timo known as Lord »•e&ha.n, (»hose -father L r l Vane, succeeded, upon the death of the fourth Lord Lor.derderry, to that title thereupon Lord tealK-n EEounsd tho courtesy title of Lord C&r.tloreagh, eventually succeeding to the liarquisate hitntelf)• lie was a fine fellow, whose domestic life was ftr fron happy' with the beautiful daughter o f Lord l hreuebury, who survived liic for a considerable nur.ber o f vosrB, and vus rather a trial in her old dava, from all that I have heard, both to hor eon, tho present Lord Londonderry, end to her daughter and so n -in -law Lord end Lady I lc h e s te r . I know her in la te r years during oy residence in London. - 67 - In conneotion with i'hriet Church, I ought to mention the !Mtn and Urs. Liddell, the had the reputation of mking strenuous, e f f o r t s , Trhich I tun afraid, n- re not very successful to cake ueb o f the I>ot-.nsry, - or rath er ite h o s p ita lity , ac a means of attracting the undor-rr&du&tes, hown fce "Desirable" fees a matrimonial point o f view , in the hope o f making what are known ae "good catches" for her daughters, of whom there were several» Christ Church vac the college to which the greater number of eldest Eons of peers, or men of wealth, wont as under-graduatos, and lire. Liddell’s opportunities were very considerable, along the linec mentioned» Unfortunately fo r h e r, she became too w ell known as a "designing casr»", and the only oasa in which she seemed to be successful was, the engagement between one of her daughters and Aubrey Huijcourt, afterwards, a good friend of mine, the only son of Colonel h>.rcourt of Kunob&n Furk, a few ; 11 e below Oxford on the Hirer. ;.l£-£, tin? poor girl died before the marriage could take place, and Aubrey liar court, who lived for many years afterwards and succeeded his it-thcr in tho ownership of Aunoham, never carried» then he died, it w-. s found that ho had left the estate to his uncle, tho wall known Fir Siilli&ra Purcourt, also a good friend of nine, together with llurcourt house in Cavendish Square, which bud been ranted for rany years to the eccentric iHike of Fort land, who never would allow him self to be seen by any one» F i r f r illie s had boon instrumental, a few y s rs boforo he became the poctGEBor of the fofctuno which his nephew h'-d left hie, in passing through G8 - JFhrliarnent an Act e sta b lish in g what has sln co become known ac the fanoue Death CnrtieB - i.e . a tax or rather texee, on inherited estates, which pressed Tory heavily upon thoEe inheriting landed property. A very strong antagor.ien arose in th a t c 1b.e e a gainst Sir William, and It was felt by many o f th en , and with no l i t t l e s a tis f a c tio n when he succeeded to the ownership of Huneham, that he had been "hoist with his ovrn petard” , and th a t i t served him r i g h t . f i r »Villiaa lived hardly more than a y-ar to enjoy his possessions, and upon hiB d eath, they devolved upon hiB so n s, known by a l l his friends &b "Loulou B&rcourt” who was subsequently craatod as a reault of having s~rvod in more than one Cabinet, Viscount k arco u rt• There is nothing very particular to record of the I nine years between the tins that I began to hunt in England and the date of ny mrriage in 1S79. As far be I remanbor i t vac a period of perfect enjoyment without any carcs or responsibilities worth mentioning; from the early days of Eoveir.ber until the lattor part of ¿'Arch, r^y brother and I and our oousins i?r. 4 Kre. Steward occupied the hunting box at karket liarborough, I raking frequent trips to Burls, where my grandfather and mother were living at Eo. 2 hue de Preebourg (the last house at the top of the Champs Elysccs, standing by itself on the left hand side and surrounded try the Place d'Etoile, the Avenue karceau), besides the two streets previously mentioned. Y/hsnever there was a frost, and hunting became Impossible, cy brottter and I usually took the train to P^rlB, and rexsained there until tho froct uisapreared * V»e also spent t«o or threa weeks with tire family at Christmas, end whenever we vent there, there wore usually balls and dinner parties, evening at the theatre, end friends innux-ie rafale to v isit, »hereby the tine r phEEBd with great BWiftiiefiB, During ay spare tine in Paris, I occupied myself a good deal with the foundation and erection of the I7sv American ('piscopai) Church, which E till resains, and has long since proved its utefullnese in the i.venue de l*Alna (changed eftor the war to tho Avunuo OoorgesV). yy o rig in a l connection w ith th is work was based upon a desire to help the Hector, the Reverend John B* Ixorg&n of tho old iUaoriean church in thi Ruo Bayard, which had becorve too srs.ll for the congregation* iie had for eone time been receiving promises * of gifts of vt»riouE sources for the erection of a rtev. church, but VitE unufale to induce ths Vestry which was largely under the influence of Ur. Ivans (brother of the dentist Dr. Thorras Y*, Rv r.s, previously referred to) who was getting on in w i.rs, and disliked the idea of .Making any efforts or changing, what seemed to hin the excellent condition of tho church as it then v c, and to which lw hud long been aocustoned* It therefore seemed to no that the only I way to bring about a change was to turn out the Vestry when the next annual election day arrived. The Vestry had been in the habit of roolooting thenselves, on every taster Ifonday, no one in the Congregation being apparently interested in ths ratter, and it was - 70 assumed by th a t body th a t on tho p r t i c u l a r lu s te r Koniay, upon which I conceived the idea of caking a change, the perfunctory e le ctio n would take p la c e , as in previous years« Loire little tiine before I consulted privately with b few friends who shared nyjfcEire for the erection of a new church, and theiight that tho Hooter’s efforts in raising funds for that object should be encouragud, to Join rao in voting for another set of wardens and Vestrymen, a plan, which whs duly carried cut« To the in f in ite su rp rise o f Dr« Evans, and one or two other of the old Vestry', who vero quietly superintending tho election, or rather voting the nr-elves in again for another year, about fifteen or twenty pew holders appeared, and voted for a new Vestry« I forget the name of the eight sen selected; two wardens and Eiz Yeetryran, but I remember that i!r. Hich'-rd Henry I .-ana who happened to be in Paris at that tine, author of ’’Two years Before the iisst" end an eminent citlten of i*.usach\!&etts, whs elected Lenior Harden, end Mr. h'.rrieon v.itbhio, a resident of P^ris at that time, was chosen Junior ?.'rden> k-r. ep-iulding in cliargo of tho P. ris houco of Tifftny & doopany being one of the Vestry, elected, and I another« Chortly afterwards, a m et ing was held 6f tlie new Vestry, at which I was appointed Secretary» The Old Vestry, accepted the situation, with the best of grace particularly ty predecessor, Secretary of the Vestry, kr« A* T,. Li 1'ie , who was as kind as possible in banding over the records of 71 the Church to no, and according no ©very possible inform ation which would be useful in thé work of the Secretary to the Ver-try. Dr. Evans assumed tîia position of sad end injured innocence ; but after remaining away from the Church for a while, be returned, and eventually, whan he realised that the work bid assumed serious proportions, he becane really interested in it, and did all that he could to help it on. Ur. Lillie lived to a great age, or.d not only did all tîiat he could to further the erection of the new church but was a loading and useful »ember until his death, both of the now church, which has long since been completedj and also of tba American "Colony" in Paris, and especially of the /userlean Chamber of Commerce in that City. I ought to add That when I returned to Paris in''1907‘, upon my transfer as Ambassador from Italy to Franco, there has no one who gave re a more cordial welcome among the American resid en ts o f th a t c i t y , and whom I was f.or.' happy to s e e , s t i l l w ell ar.d strong in s p ite o f his :-reat age, than hr* Lillie. To. my regret I heard of his death only a f v years ago. Thus it w .fl that the beautiful Gothic Church of the r holy Trinity came into existence in FV-ris. The cornerstone was i laid a few years afterwards, and I have a quaint old wood-cut of tha ceremony in ono o f ny scrap books. I have previously referred to the frequent visits which I vas able to wake to this country during my grandfather's long r 72 residonoe in A.rib, and ny Inciting coaecnc in i.ngla nd*. One o' those visits I remember, particularly well, in 1673, during which, besides the usual pilgrimage to fja:..pton, I stayed in L'ew York with old lire• JanoslI« Jones (nee Schorncrhcrn), with friends on the Hudson, and with the thews at their house in Gernantown, which dated from before the Revolution, and where, in the ceiling of the bedroom which I occupied, was tho nark of a bullet firod into the house during tlie Battle of Oercantown» One incident of that eojeum at hone, which I renenber was a day at tlje Row York Haces, which wore then held at Joroba íVrk, on what wsb ca lle d the Knickerbocker Club Coach, which whs re a lly a Coach owned by eeveral members of that newly founded cdub, of which I an now (1S25) one of the oldest rsnhore. Those whom 1 accompanied on that ooctsion, were, lire. Joe Stone (who wub the chap rone) and the biases Emily Yth&ga, Sarah ring and T'innie . tevens, who respectively be carie, afteraarde , Duchess of iianchester, lire. Frederick Bronson, (in later life and still lirs. i.drian Iselin) and lire, /.rthur (afterwards Lady) La got • The other nun,, Thonas Few bo Id, S. Hicholson Kane, and Janas I!» Joños, brother of lira. Jolai Ltewi-rd, wife of cy cousin of that nano, to v.’hoia I have previously referred, aa occupants with eg o f the hunting - box at Karkot IF Thorough, Neither Fisc Yenags nor Jilee Stevens had then been to Í ; ngl&nd, nor consequently begun th9 renarkable sooial careers which fell to their lot in after years• Both of then, hovrevej were - 7C e-up ©Bed at the tino, to lisve fen ga^b on Europe for husbands, and I roneuber Hiss Ltevens reproaching as afterwards for not hvving mentioned nore distinctly to her the nane of a friend of cine from England who olined up on the front wheel of the coach to Epenk to no, and whom I introduced to her, lord Lewichan (now and for nany yonrE jnet D. rl of Dartmouth), eb she would liave liked to cultivate his acquaintance. Like so taany o f his co m p atrio ts, Lord Lewisham veb at that time, rather shy, without very much to say, and kiss Etevens had not found him apparently in te re s tin g to ta lk t o , which however, would not have boon tho c a s e , ev id e n tly , i f she had known who he wbs. The party vac a very lively one, and although I hr.ve been to «my race-parties on coaches from country houtec in England, since that day, it haE left an ineffaceable jnerory. — - The only surv-lrora of tho party now living are 1'rs» Ieelin., (at that tins it rah King), Thus- s liewbold, and im-self. A few words hero about the Knickerbocker Club ray not bo inappropriate. It was founded in 1872, on a principle not then generally approved, by monbers of clubs, but which has undoubtedly preserved the Knickerbocker sb the nost select club in TTevr York, vis: the self perpetuation of tho conmittea by its own calibers (vacancies thereon being filled by members of tho Committee, only, and not, &E in most other clubs, by votes of the whole membership o f tho c lu b ). I reasnber this principle was very much criticised at 78 - tho iiico, and t number of t. oto whon I knew ro ‘'used to to in the inickorbockcr for tbz»t roaecn, but tho wisdom of those who founded the Club on th-t tr-Bit, h s boon thoroughly ¿notified« 1 bsotitvi a reubor in 1073« In 1079 - December Drd - I v a t n arricd a t S t« b erk 's Church - in — thy Bom/erie, liuw York, to liurgarct ituyvo&ant hutherfurU, tho oldest daughter of I hr« her 1b Morris Tuthorfurd, the uetrononor, v/Jioee wife we. a IT.rg>(ret rhuiiler« Che l»d boon a. beautiful wonun in iter youth, and retained ranch of it even at , tlw tiuo of ry nurriag« to Ik t (laughter, but was in delioato health, and 1 t-d lout tlio sight of ;ne pyo, and to a considerable extent that of the other, which in no way, ho..over, seoiusd to ruodiiV har vivacity, wit aria interest in overvthing« *A, the tine of rr-/ ^ferriage, the huthorfurd family ♦ occupied a large brisk house on the corner of hoc end .'venue Grid I icvuuth itreot (on th-o opposite side of which latter wore, end still arc, Lt. bark’s Ghuroh and its Ancient burial ground^. The house Ijad bean built by ;.:r« Peter ftuyveeunt, a lineal descendant of the '¡hitch Governor of that mno of Kcw /.naterdac, before th^t city was o&ptured by the Ingllsh, and boca.no therou]>on hew York* »a ; Ly wife’s oldest brother hud changed his ns.no from btuyvesant hutherfurd, to >uthc-rfurd i tuyveeant, in order to inherit a largo part of the fortune of Peter f-tuyv?3fcnt, his granduncle by rr.rrlage iy nother-in-lnw being a ni&cc of tbo said Peter’s wife, and a favorite niece of his. Tho old family house was loft by Ur» 79 btuyvoaont to ny Jjrother-in-lav , v-ho gave it to his parents* At that tire Second Avo ua was still to a considerable extent, though not mmrly 60 much as it h d been, a residential quarter, for those in society, but within a few years of tha tire of my Ef-rriag©, i t » u e entirely abandoned by society, end the old house is new a hospital (I think) for diseases of Worsen# Up to tho time of cy rf-rrlar©, I had - os previously stated, I think - livod a lifo of en^oyaant, with no thought of doing nay serious work, or of making nyeolf useful in tho world otherwise than by tha cult*v-tion of friendships, and the pro motion thereby of good fellowship and good feolingE among thoco by wiion I we.B eurrounded, both at home ana abroad» But shortly after our marriage sy wife, v ho had an exceptionally ir.tere ting nind and a strong seriso of public duty, began to talk to me about doing something useful in the world, a m ttor which we thereupon began to d iscu ss from tiias to t i r e . I.Ventually we oame to tho cone ius ion that Diplomacy would be on tlio whole the U sEt wuy in which I oould serve our Country, especially *..s she would be able to bo of great ftssifetance to do in the pursuit of that profession* One norning th t winter, after we had talked the matter over I rononber getting up early and tz king a train to Philadelphia, with a view to consulting I£r* John belch, a woll known banker of that city, end who had been Minister to Png lend, and of whom 1 h d 80 — _ seen a pood d eal during e$- hunting days, as to the best course to pursue if ono «ranted to tako up Iilplooucy cs life- work, At that tie- ve had no regular diplomatic service, and secretaryships of le{rjrtions wore usually given to those v.ho lud political bucking without any particular regard to the qualifications of the appointees for-the representation of-our country in foreign lands, Er, Telsh advised no to fc&ko it known tb toy friends tint I ras prepared to bnter tho service, and in view of tho nany I had at that tino, in public life, he thought there would bo no particular difficulty to ny obtaining such an appointment, whon a vacancy such aa I wished to fill should occur. My wife and I decided, however, that as long as my « - * grandfather liv e d , i t would not be p o ssib le for rac to uEr.ume arty duties or obligations under our fkrv: rnnont, owing to the fact that it was necessary for mo to share with uy brother and our nothor in looking aftor him, iVe had intended speiding the winter of 1879-50 in Pew York and . ai hington, going into the world and extending our acquaintances end friendships of which we both had a largo number, 3ut, one month after our n&rriago, her sister-in -law, ¿drs, Putherfurd i'tuyvceant, died suddenly, and threw tho whole family into mourning* there by proventing uh from carrying out our pi*- ns j for tho en^Q'Tsent o f s o c ie ty , during the t i m e r , / After remining for nearly throe weeks at Tranquillity, "V Mr, 4 I’re » hutherfurd's country' seat at . arrenford, Tow Jersey, re spent Chrifctr&s and Lcr Ye: r 1s with then in the old Second >vanuo house, and then went to stay vith nr,- brothcr-in-lar., the widower, who are in a terrible state of grief end loneliness• It r&s not a cheerful way of beginning a carried life, but rat unavoidable *o far at one could nee, and wo rade the best of it» Another innate of the house at that tirfi was hie brother- in-law, .Tay Pierrepont, who had .lust lost hie wife, which, of course, notwithstanding the effectB of th** latter, added to the atmosphere of glooc. Fortunately, our own happiness was so great that r.o rrrkod Ir.preacion of gloom is left upon ja y roir.d re a re su lt o f th a t sta y o f tro nonthB r i t h ny b ro th er-in -law , who ra:. the kindest and best of nan, and bore hie sorrow rith gre^-t couth^b . Towards the end of the month of February, we decided to take a trip to f'anada, where. Lord Lome, oldest son of th Duke of^rgyle, vue then f-overr.cr-leu'-ral; the distinction of his position us euch being m torially enhanced by the pn ser.ee of hie r ife, Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of ueen V ictoria» i>e stayed a t Cttowa nei.rly a week, and er.^oj-ed the hospitality at Co’ emnert IToure on soveral occaEldns; not only at dinner, but toboganning and ekating with the Governor General, I 3’rincess and the Household» The r.ight of our departure for Toro-to, the IVinocse LouI eo rat rith a serious accident in her sleigh on the way from Government Louse to the houses of F u rller-cn t, to attend the opening cererony of that rody» I forget the details of the aceiden2, but, be ft-r as I renrmber, tho sleigh n s upcot - 82 - \ fantl ar&gn'ed for fone distance, and shs received bruises, but war not permanently injured* One of the gursts fat Oovernnant Rouse was L&rl Grosvenor, oldest eon of the first Duke of Hestuinster, a curiouc inconsouueritis.1 overgrown nan, who had o&rried not n&ny years before the beautiful Lady bybell Lumley, one of the doubters of Lord Scarborough* Poor Gronsenor, known in his family as Baggy, t« s a hopeless kind of person for one in his position* Re slept nearly ell day, getting up usually only in time for dimer, for which ho vfeK ns rly always late; but hud charming manners, was very kindly in his nature, and unfortunately suffered periodically from epileptic fits* Fortunately he died before hie father, fa fee yefars afterw ards* Fron Gitnf'.da, after a brief stay in i'ontrefal, we went t»o «Hshington, end spent a week or ten dfcye there at ¡ orcley’s It Hotel, on the oorner of II and loth 1 treat* It ske fa favorite place of sojourn, and even cf reridenoe, for those public men - Lenutore end Representatives - who did not happen to Iw-ve houses of th e ir own, end war. kept by e negro by tho ns.ee o " r-ornley* Iv o ry - thing as I renenbor it, was rather prirdtivo, eyaept the food, which was of th€i best kind of southern cooking, fend very much appreciated by all tha inmates of the house, which vac a former dwelling house, the back building of which hsd been extended* On the other clue \ of H f troot was the house of hr. L. I * I’orton, at that tiu-e one of the lianbers of Congress from Few York, who had married not long before Hiss f t r e e t , and was ju st en terin g upon fa public career of - 83 im.oort&nce and considerable d is tin c tio n . Both F o re le y 'e end the Forton House, hud long since disappeared, to make »•ay, the former for a Bky-Bcrsper office building, and the latter for the well known Ehorehar. Hotel. Washington i'R.B in those daye s till, as it had been, from the tine of its foundation, very simple and primitive in its ways, «social and otherwise. There were very few dinner parties of a foraal kind, but a great deal of informal meeting at the houses of certain of the leading people, in the evening, after dinner - usually not by Invitation, but friends of the family u su ally "Dropped i n " . John iiay » a t ai.eifcte.nt S ecretary of State, having not Very long been carried to Hiss Stone, an heiress, of Cleveland, Ohio. She wa however, r.otvith him at the time. we savr e certain amount of him, and of the k'orton6, of I/onsieur Outrey, ¿be French Minister, who had carried *• ; o f S ir Edward and lady Thornton, the n ritlsh I’in ia te r and hit wife, and other Diplomatists, as well as Senators Edmunds of Vermont, Hale o f !.fe.ine, Hoar of U atsach u eetts, and others of importance in the political world. ; ltogethor ny recollection of that visit is exceedingly pie sant, and m e out first introduction to the political life of tills country. From ».ashlngtbn, wo returned to ray brother-in-law's house in Hew York, and remained there, until our dopurture for 1 urope in Huy or .Tune to visit ny grandfather and mother in :^--ris. ^ftor spending a few weeks at the Hotel du Ehin, we accompanied ny family to a houEe "Los Frc ronts“, whioh they had taken i on the top of the h ill behind Trouville in Fornfcndy, where we remined for several eohths* Before leaving Baris, we decided that as long as ny grandfather liv e d , i t would be n ecessary for us to n-e core or lees in Paris, and we therefore took an apartment at T*o» 2 Avenue Hoche, where, on the 12th of October, 1S80, our daughter liargarot JJu riel, was born* Tha Avenue Koche apartment remained our hone for the next three years, although vs were frequently absent therefrom on visits to this country, and occasionally to Fngland* During those three ye^rs, we formed quite an extensive acquaintance in Paris, among people who were interesting front one point of view or another* The various members of the Rothschild family were very kind to us, and I recall cany pleasant evenings spent at dinners in their housc6. Barons Alphonse, who owned the house in which Prinoe Talleyrand lived and died, in the rue it. llorentin, corner of the Rue de Rivoli, opposite the gardens of the Tuiloriec; y Guctave, rhose house surrounded bp a large garden, wag in the venue .‘"-rigny, opposite the Rlysee Palace and Gardens; and Edmond, the three eons of the Baron James, who k s a son of the original founder of the family in Frankfort, were all entertaining at that tine, and oooupying a seloot position in society. And in addition to then was Baron Nathaniel, originally of the i'aplos branch of tho family, whose wife, a daughter of tho hoed of the Frankfort house of Rothschild, was a lady of singular charm and clev rnecs* Their beautiful "hotel" was at the edge of the rt.ro hone -au, and they also had a beautiful pdlaco at the outskirts of Geneva, overlooking the lake* All these Rothschild houses were full of the roost beautiful - 85 - work* of art, and' they entertained at that tine the leading nenbers, not only of Frenoh society, tut of the artistic end literary world* Convorsfction at which, the Fronch in general are so ver good, ttg always nofet interesting, and at tines of a high order of wit and learning at those entorta inner te - particularly the snftll dinners, which were the more attraotive, because one was surrounded by everything that is pleasing to the eye fron an artistic point of vie?;, as to both works of art and decorations of the roon» V.’o used to see a c e r ta in amount in those days o f the famous fountess (’ kslanio ) de Fourte-les, one o f the beauties and intimate friends of the Knprese Eugenie, during the French Enpiro» the had been one of the leaders of Eociety at that tins, and rer^inod so - that is of such society l i renainod after the fall * of the iIr.piro - until her death» The had great distinction and ebarn, and those qualities in ny wife, appealed greatly tc her» Vt.ny pleasant and interesting dinners at the Countess de Pourtales' h^use in the Ruse Tronohot, stand out vividly in oenory* My wife’s cousin, nee Anna Morris, had married the Conte do i'ontraulnin ** a Trench gentlcran of the old school - typical really. In every »ray and brilliant in converstftion, who h*d flond his part in the Franco-Prussian bar, and was at that tin? a Deputy fron hiB I _ fir. I have especially pleasant recollections of the Spanish Anbcaeador to France, ct that time, the i'arquia do Loiins and his vifo, who wore both typical in the oest sense of Spaniards of the upper c l a s s , and who wore a t hone in th s ir charging Embassy on th? ^uay d'O rsay, near th e Pont de la Concorde, every lionday evening, when there vuc, usually dancing and very pleasant assemblage of Earls society* Old igueen Isabella, vho had been deposed from the throne * i . ' * . '* of Spain in 1858, and had lived In Paria thereafter, was frequently a guest at those parties, and im.s a marvel to behold of enormous obesity, and otherwise, H r career as reigning queen is eo well known from the tine of the famous "Spaniah (.ferriages" devised by Xing Louis Phillip « and hia nlniater Ilonaieur Hulrot, that I need not dwell upon i t . I t w ill be remembered th a t the iniquitous intention of those two distinguished p;T£onag©8 was based on the theory that, as a result of the Vuean’s having no children, the y crown of ¿ pain should pass eventually, to the King’s son, the !>uo lo L'crtpensier and h is w ife, the younger s i s t e r o f The latter, however, completely foiled their intentions, and led a life which was not an example of the highest morality; besides hing a victim of endless revolutions, the last of which, under Ifershal . Prim, two years before the fall of the French Empire, resulted in her permanent expulsion from i pain, although the crown afterwards reverted to her son, and upon h is d eath , to hia grandson, upon whoee head i t V still riEte, howover insecurely* he used also to soe a certain amount of the German Ambassador to Fr- nco, at th?-t tire . Prince Lohonlohe, and were - 87 frequent%y guests a t th e Eabassy in the hue de L illo which building was interesting from tha fact that during the reinn of the first .Lapoleo j,it bad boon & residence of the I mpree# Josephine’s son - at one tine Viceroy of Italy - Frince Eugene boauharnais • At the ffe.ll of the first empire, tha house was bought by the Prussian Government for its fcnbassy, just as the Eritioh Embassy in the Faubourg S t. Honoré, which was the residence of tho Enpcror Fapoleon’s sister, Princess ifeullne ? Aorghese, ir-d been bought &t the sane tins by the Prltish Oovernnont, fet tho Instance of the Duke of Wellington, at that tiro Gorr-ander in chief of the tilled Amies, who were occupying France• .'*oth hoiisec, were bought at very low figures. In this connection, it is interesting to noto the differonoc in policy pursued by our ©cm Govemswirt, and the leading powers of - rurp?o - frost tirita in particularly - in rcet>ect to thoir represent ativos abro- d. For more than & hundred years, &s previously staled, the uritifeh and Prufenian (a ^ tcr 1871 Gorman) Fjsb&aBioe, had been pcminer.tly established in those two beautiful houses, with gardens attached, those of tho former extending fron the Faubourg £ t. Konoro to tho "harps rlysess find those of tho German Embassy f oa tho Kuo do Lille to tho Ct»i d’hrsty, at thich they end in e high terrace. Kron th is te rra o o a b eau tifu l view i; obt?. liied o f the f e in e , up and down, for a corxider&blo distance with tho Gardena of the Tuilerios on tho othor oido *« * • «yoeoo. tho M .. of tho touvro. tho oboliet of 88 th© TV.ls.oe do la. Conoorde, the column o f the Palace Vendors©, and othr,r public buildings tnd monuments. 15o*nwhile, the rep resen tativ es o f the United S ta te s (for cany years only a liinister, while those of the leading European powers, »ore Anbassadors ) had been shifted about front one building to another acoordlng to the private means of the person holding that position« At one time he was living in a house containing h&lf a dosen or nore other fbm lies; at another (notably iir. L. r. "orton and Hr» -¿rhitelaw Held) in handrono houi>eB of their cron, the rnnt of which they could afford to pay from thoir private fortune« It ie difficult to exaggerate the I oes of prostige as well as of aooorplishrvsnt, involved by such neglect on the part of a oourttry of its representatives abroad. The late Andrew 1). uhita who was twice our representative at Berlin, the first as i'inister, ‘and the seoond as /.Sib&6Eador,-and at another time in huesia, twmtions in his Renoirs, how he failed to obtain a concession from the Russian Tcrvernrsent, which was greatly desided by ours, solely because he was obliged to live in a comparatively penurious way in an apartment, while the British Ambassador obtained what itr. i.h ite wanted, bac&uee he v&e living in a fin®, large house in the best situation in ft* Petersburg, furnished and kept up by his •Jovernntcnt• The krabassy hcut.es o f Great B rita in and Germany are as well known in the Capitols of bur ope, as are the palaces in which the lov-raigna or A*osidents live, while,until recently, scarcely a cabman or any one else, except those having relations with our i - 89 Legation or Lsbossy, had any idea of its location, I had 6 painful experience of this situtation cr/salf, rhcc, upon going to Peris shortly after the close of our Civil * tr, and, Efter eeoing the British and Oerr»Ln Labaxciee, acting the csbrnn to ' take ne to the /.morioan Legation* he ocrutchod hie head, and Bald ha had no idoa where that place was, tut after some reflection he middenty seonad to seethe lirht, eald he knew where I wanted to go# end took no to tho Legation o f Peru t Pubsaquent inquiry/ on ny part load to the discovery of our kin-later, at that t In« no lese a person than the lato John Bigelow. - the L eorotary o f Legation being tho la te John Hay, in an apartment on the third floor, with only four windows looking on the street, which was an obfeure one, called at that- tine, the rue du 'Centre. On the-whole ny nanories of tho three years Epent in Paris after ny mrriago, are very happy. IV wife end I, ir.Epired no doubt by the oo&utiful objects of art which wo were in the hacit of seeing at the various houses previously described, of our friends, bcoarac* a good deal interested in that subjeot ourselves, and, besides picking up old furniture, stuffs, and occasional pictures, etc., for our sportnent, eho devolo-»ed that the French call a "flair” for such things* In 18 0 the insisted upon ry being painted by Leon Tcnnat, b oelebrtted portrait painter o f th a t t i r o , by whoa e great nunbor of our oonpatriotE have had their portraits painted. he was b e tte r - SX) - however, for old nen, than young ones, and while ay portrait is very good, I have always regretted that I wls not pa inted by John Sargent, who fortumfcely not long afterwards nado a beautiful full / length portrait of ay wife, which is in our Washington houee tcong the most precious of sy possess ions9 Sargent was at that tins but l i t t l e known, and I t was a conciderable venture on our p art to give hie tho conniBBion for such an important portrait; but I h3d 6©en one which he had painted of a Hiss Burckhardt, which indicated talent of an exceptional order in a nan so young as he then wt.B, and i t decided us to ask hiss to p ain t ay w ife* he had no idea a t th a t time th a t he would become the greatest portrait painter of hie day, and have often regretted sin ce th a t I was not painted by hies, instead o f by bonnet. Fortunately, the latter was commissioned to do a portrait of ny grandfather about the sane tine th^t mine was painted, and i t turned out to be one o f the fin e st over produced by Bor.r.&t; indeed one of the best of an old mn that I have ever seen* grandfather died on :'hristms.s Day, 13B2, had he lived for another month, he would have attained the age of 89 years* his death was as peaceful as his life had oeen. He simply sunk to I the flo o r while Wf.Bhinr his ffe.ee, sh o rtly a f t e r having gotten up, apparently in his uEual health, in the corning, fell backward, end was dead* I ranched h is room, -from the tvenue Koche w ithin h a lf an hour of his df'ath, and could hardly believe he was not breathing* he looked perfectly natural, end in purfect health, as he seened to be &s he lay cm his bod» He vae gifted with a happy nature, and a ch&rnlng c h a r a c te r , and vwe always anxious to sake those shout hin happy» To cy brother and me he wre the noet devoted of grandparents, ©yen going to tho oxtent of giving us unlitritod credit et the banks fet which ho kept an account» I ao glad to add that nsighfer of ue abused his confidence in that or any other respect* i.fter his death, we began to turn out attention to tho quor-tion of ev going into Diplon&cy, and, l!r» L. ?» i;orton happening to be our minister to France at that tine, and a groat friend ot ours, I consulted hlr. on the Eubiect» E® had been appointed to that poet in 1661 by President -Barfield, who m l RSBREEinatod s h o rtly aftcrvrsrds but »ae on the best terras possible with* President Arthur, who had succeeded to the Presidency, Hr, Norton seestd to think there right be a vacancy ; in the first secretaryship of hie Legation, which turned out to be th® case not long afterwards, end he comranded rae strongly to Procident Arthur for the Post, Unfortunately, however, or rather very fortunately as it turned out afterwards for ne, political reasons - tho conciliation of tome politician or group in i Louisiana - caused tho President to prefer a nan from that i'tate, •who m s accordingly appointed, Hr, Morton’s nsntion of ray name, hpuever, to the President, brought ns to his attention, and not long afterwards when I vas in «.ashington, I went to see hin at the request of >b*» Frelinghauysen, the Lecrotary of ita te , who v s an old friend of ev wife's family. The President was very cordial, but said nothing about fry wish to entor the Dlplor&tie fervlee, r.or did I, end shortly afterwards I sailed for Europe to pay son» country house visit* In England Kith ny wife, - among thee I remember thst of Ferdinand Rothschild nt haddesdon lienor, to whioh I have previously referred* Xt tfif a great house warningj the piece having juet been completed y * end in condition, he considered, iio be shown to his friends, and a) particularly to his relations* i ll the Rothschilds sere very particular In regard to their re^Letione, end usually would not allow any of them to see the places which they wore creatine until they were in as perfect a oonfiition as possible* On the occasion to which I refer, hsdeesdon-was crowded to its utmost capacity, and among the guests were tho Prince of \ (.alee (afterwards King Edward V Il), the ’nichcss of Ife-nch^ster, (r ften.-ards Ijevor.ehiro), the i-eautiful lady Kildare (afterwards Duchess o f .e in s to r ) and as many parsons o f im portance, p o litic a lly or otherwise as -onld bo,gotten into the house* Thero was a ball one night, end a great display of fireworks another* In connection w ith th e l a t t e r , I remember that a number of guests, among them nr-solf, were playing lawn tennis, until almost Fight o'oloek in the evening, up to which time there lvid been no symptoms, ar, far as we c. uld see, of preparations for the display of fireworks, which was to take place after dinner* »•hen I got to sy room, however, and happened to look out of the window, I saw & p e rfe c t array o f non creeping out fron under tha bushes in all direct ions, who began to set up the framework for the various set. “pieces" for the cvoning’R display. They hsd evidently been kept in hiding; there for some hotrs - probably since lunch tine - otherwise soeb of ub would have seen then going into the bushes . Among the many incidents of that vie it, I remember a well known French Actress being imported from T^ris, end, there being no roon for her in the house, she was established at the village Kectorv, with a member of the French Fnbassy, and several guests of the Diron stayed there also, to look after her. The Keetor, who tob not apprized of the lady’s identity, nor pursuit in life, found her charging - as she certa'nly was, though not exactly the person whoa the average individual would have thought of suggesting as a guest to the Hector of a parish in Furland. It was while staying at VJ&ddesdon thst I received a tele gran from }.fr. Alphonso Taft, at that tine cur 1'inirter to A ustria (whose Eon, *.illian, w~ s President of the bnited i tates from 1909 - 1915, and is now, 1926, Chief Justice), asking rea • i 5 I whether I had been notified of ny appointment by President Arthur ns Secretary of his Legation, and asking c» not to decline It u n til I had hoard fron h ie by n a il* I norer had had the ple&suro of ceeting lor* le ft, nor had the information to which ho referred, reached me, although it did so a day or two later, and simultaneously or thereabouts. 94 I received l?r. Taft's letter, also. In it he explained that an unfortunate co n d itio n had e x iste d a t the Vienna L e c tio n Binoe ho becans its Chief, in the combination of the Consul-Generalship and the feeretaryahip of the Legation, by our government, for motives of economy, in the came person, trhioh had naturally been objectionable to the Austrian Government. Vr, Taft added that the two offices had now been separated, and he hoped very' auoh that I would accept tho fecretr-ryship of the Legation. I answered, expressing ¡sy sincere appreointion of tho desire which • r ha expressed, to assooiote no with his mission to Axistrla, and saying t.h>t I would give the natter serious consider-tion. I there :por. conferred with ny good friende, i‘r. James Kussell Lowell, cur Minister to London, and !?r. L. V • ’‘orton, to whom y I had previously referred as representing the United Ltctes in France, and as baring been desirous that I should become his tecn-ta y of his Legation. They both advised me strongly to accept the appointment, vhich they felt, if I did not oere to retain it for any length of tire, would serve as a basiS for my transfer to ar.othor post. I followed tho advice, wrote to Ur» Taft, and to tho ctate r:epnrtnont, notifying both of ry acceptance of the post at Vienna,whither I proceeded shortly afterwards, alone, as it wa.B not convenient for various reasons for vsy wife to accompany e» at that tine. And thus began my long career in 95 biplor&oyj although no ono hud any idea in those days t.han tho nEpoil i-yB'.en" was in f u ll v ig o r, except porhfcpa cr/B el?, th a t I should bo lllrely to rcnain longer than tho existcnco of the liopu oilcan i driinir tre t ion,'¿iich v s thon in power» being however of a hopeful disposition, and having realized tho groat dicadvantaro of tho interests of our country abroad iron tha appointment to posts in our Legations (we had no rnbcsfioB then), of non, bocause they wore bached by an important politician at hone, without p-ny qualifications whatever, for diplomtic work, - not evon tie knowledge of french or any other foreign language, I decided to bee ora tha huoleus, If poccibla, of a perraanent service» iuch an idea » of considered chimerical by all of ay fri'-nds, but I had u feeling tret it would bo possible for tha inited its tea to have, as the other lc ding powers of the world then ir.d, u r.on-partican ( ue f r an corsstic politics ware concerned) uarvice, to which ap^roir. ananas should be rebe according to fitneep only, and I an able to look bach with sutisf-ctior. upon tho attainnent, on the whole, of that ourly ar.bition» It v/ac, however, not an ©acy natter, as trill be subeequontly shown, for .one whose sole idea wue tho service of the r-tion, and the furtherance of its inter nts f s diot’nct from those of one or tire other political parties at hone, to continue to do bo, and I r.'s given to understand, as previously stated that I night as well aul:e up ny nind to tho ongoj-nent of London focicty for Buch a period orrly ar, the Kopublican / drini strut ion should retre in 96 in power* KotfcvL ike tending which I deto mined to prove the contrary, if possible* After tho rcoeipt of icy Connies ion es Leoretury of the Legation fct Vienna, I paid a fera rare vicitB to country houses in England, and took sy departure for nv post, leaving ny wife and little girl in Fngland for tho rest of tho sumar, ae I wa.e afraid that the heat of Vienna night be too great for then. I did not retain long in tho Austrian Capital, chiefly !| for tho reason that it wus impossible to obtain a furnished house or apurtraent th'>r9, and I vu* not prepared to take an unfurnished residence with ell the trouble of furnishing it, not feeling that a prolonged period of service there was probable for re* I took up nv sbode at ths Imperial hotel, formerly the palaoe of one of the .“.rohdukes, and settled down to ny work* Ab shov ing of what * little importance diplomatic work, was looked upon in our country in those dayt certainl r in bo fur as Austria v b concerned, I would eay th a t upon xsy inquiring r.hothor it would not bo desirable for no to visit the iopprtrnent of itato at .ashington, with a view to acquEinting syEelf fron its archivoB, with the hictory .of our relations with Austria, I wu6 told thc-t such a stop web not in the least necessary, ug I could find out anything I night wish to know along thoso lines .-'You tho files of tho Vienna Legation* If, however, ny stay et Vienna was not long, it was exceedingly pleasant, and I have tho happiest recollections, not only of ny relations with Hr. Taft, who w- s a re.n of exceptional 97 ability, r ro common sense, and looked at things in general fron the broadest and most impartial point of view, but also of tan)' pleasant acquaintances -which I nsda there* ;.c an evidence of hr* Taft's desire always to obtain the substances, rathor than fee shadow, of things, I cey rant ion a bit of advice? which he gave ns on ny arrival, and which was tho last sort of advice that I should have oxpected fron one of his J extreme simplicity of habits and associations* lie said to cs. I think at our very first interview, that he had two suggestions, amounting practically to requests, to make of no; first, that I should never occupy seats in tha two court throfcreB, the Opora and the Burg - T h eatre, save in the two first rows, ana secondly that I should use only t’^o-horee cabs in the dsv time* He explained that those were two ridiculous custom! at that tin» prevalent in respect to any one connected with tho Court of Vienna, but that if wo did not conform to then, we should simply be considered as unaccustomed to the ways of society, and as tho object of our Legation was to conduct our Country's business to the best advantage pos:.ible, and rot to criticize the manners and habits of the Austrian upper class, it was desirable to conform, instead of placing ourselves in antagonism to, their customs* I realised not long afterwards, how wise i‘r* Taft's advice had been, b e , shortly afterwards, upon asking the hotel porter to obtain seats for mo on a certain evenin- at the Imperial Opera House, and hie subsequently telling me th a t none were to be had, I thought I would n&ko inquiry nyself at tho ox office, and found that acrverwl scats wore available, quito forgetting at tho tine that they -were rot in the firct or second row- of orchestra stalls, Upon reproaching tho portar at the hotel, subsequently, I vr-c told by him that of course thore were seats available, but they were not in tho first or second ro?.?, end he never supposed I vris tillin g to go elcewhero« Lubsequontly, also, I realised the inportance attached to never being seen in & one-horse 6a b in tho day time, by a nea.>cr of the Eiplcoitic 3cdy, or of the upper class o f f o c i c t y . In th e ''I r s t plr.ee, a l l th e non whoa I got to Imorr afterwards, usually wont about in two-hor; o epon Victorias - known as f l a k e r s , whoso d riv ers would p it th e ir horses a t a full gallop between cross streets, and suddenly pull then up on reaching the latter, by orders of the police, ur.d aftor crossing those streets at tl»e walk, would dtsh o""f again at a full gallop, i\ further illustration of l'r, Taft’s visdon in the natter was 'X conveyed to ns when, on arriving at cne of the stations from a country visit, I asked tho policenfm on duty to call no a cab, and ho said that there v.-ero none on the stand, I called his attention to tho fact that there were several ir. sight, to which ho replied that thore were only "oin - spanners" (i.d . bne- horre vehicles), which he did not suppose I vould drive in. - 93 ..ustria was at that tins a charming but exceedingly narrow-nindod nation, certainly In bo ftir ac the oourt and society were concerned, and not »ny years previouc to cy rocider.ee there it hud been called by I5r. Disraeli (aftorwardo lari of « Sosioonsfioid) the "China of buropa", and the description lc not at all a bod one« As far as I could ascertain, little or no interest wus taken in any other country, with the exooption of bngland, between the upper class of which and that of Austria and Hungary, there t.tE a sporting sympathy, and the members of those classes used to visit each other fron tine to tine, for shooting, which was vory fine in certain parts of Austria. The Unl'-ed itates »as hardly known or thought of, and our Legation, as such, w s of about the same importance from a % social ~cint of view, as that of Persia. The Diplomtic business between the two countries 'oneisted chiefly of questions of nationality; that is to esv, of i.uEtiians by birth, who had become naturelisod in the United itatCE, end on returning to their country, wore frequently arrqBted as not having really divested themselves of their original nationality. The dispatches vre-re few and ft r between, and cablegrams s till fewer* L5r. Taft, however, took a great interest In his ,1ob# and undoubtedly impressed those when ho met, and s till more those at the horeign Office, with whom he had to do business, by hi* nature. 1 dietinctions under a eonewhat rugged exterior, and thereby enhance tho dignity of our country. - 100 - i upi’io^rT i (Leo F - 3 ) . Origin of tho 'It-soton* Fldrclyg» . * Robert Rldgely, progonitor of the Panpton branch v of tho fu n ily , wae ft. neraber o f tho p ro v in cial Bar, holding public offices at it. li-ry'o (tlion tho capital of the Provinoo) and acting as Secretary of tho Province in or about the year 1676 during tho &beence of Lir hilliao. Talbot in England* At his doath in 1681, he left 5054 acres of land in various countios to bo divided botiroon h is widow and th ree sons* The portion of hie son Charles lay in Prince Ooorge*s County, t.horo C had lee diod early in the 18th oentury, leaving his affaire in suoh confusion* 3ut Charles* father-in-law, John Dorsey of /jme Arundel County, eo adjusted ratters that the interests of his Rid go ly grand-cons did not suffor. C=ne of those, Charles (2d), held land on the Cun-pcr*cer when Joppa (later EuperEodod by .altiuore Town on the Fttapsco) v.t. c the county coat; here known as Colonel Ridge ly and bocano ownor of what my bo called the nucltms of the Panpton tm ot of land whore his ftnily has over cinoo boon seated* There is no proof that this tract was received in exchange for land in 'rlnco Ooorgo’e County; t)jO rmise of Damall, whioh appears on the transfer, -h pponlng to be that of a fardly seated in tho lattor region my have left to the theory' of an exchange* a ft or it vue fit for occupancy, vue the birth on January 9, 1730, of .John, .seoond Bon of Charles Pidgely Caruan, the nsphov of Cr.ptc.in Char lee Fidgoly* The young Ccm n family had ev id en tly boon in s ta lle d in tho now house in tin e fo r the tbovo event, but before plans c .uld be perfected for the house-framing which follonod shortly afterward«* This day, briefly reoordod by Kobocoa, tho Captain's wife, &s tho one in which the;-' wont to th e 'new hoube* and 'hud P ray ers*, is notable in the fh n ily ann als* P.ebeoca v&b & hethodiBt, and io alludod to in one of riiebop /.sbury'e letters to her ae a 'nothor in Israel of dry breasts*. The Ceptain was a dsep- dyod politician with a keen eye to the min chance* Jlc had at firct invited ccrso of hir. cronios to take part in a colo brat ion arbund tho festive bowl; but finding that rsany of his constituents vero disciples of Le bury, he roc Lned with then in hie w ife's conpany and sont his nephesr Charles to c-nduct festivities in an attic roon far removed fr 03 tho religious ritos v/hlch vero correctly tcconplichod dormstairc* Vihon Cockoy Doyo, tho Captain's political opponent heard of this ch&ngo of progran, ho osclalred: *iell, veil, with Charles Tidgely r.nong tho saints and Charlie Caman anon g tho cinnorc, I my as veil givo up** Tho Captain dlod within six rjonths of tho houte- warning, and in accordance with his will the nacso of his nephew Charlee Ridgely Ctrmn wue by Act of Legislature changed to that of Ch. rlec RLdgoly; the portrait of this eeln, b etto r kn'wn as General Ridgoly, who rue Governor of li-ryland in 1515» 1818, hangs c.t Hampton. And thus hie son, John Carnen, born at Iiacpton in 1790, booaco on the death of the elder eon Charles (whioh occured during the father's life ), John Ridgely o f Hampton, tho * grandfather* bo often mentioned in these renlnl%- ooncos. I zvp.vr.iaxn 5 . (foo p-5* ) HIIsa, only ohlld of liicholfas "'rer-nberry Rid roly and vrlfe of John Rldgoly of lianpton» * At the tioo of Lafayette ' e visit in ie24, among the bolloe of the day known in Hiiladelphia, fccEhlngton and wherever cocLal functions drew to g eth er tho e l i t e , v.as R lica K idgely, the daughter of Hlcholec Groenberry Ridgoly, the successful vine» merchant. Che onoe viEited Lechlngton with her friend I'Ieb Colemn, daughter of an iron master fron Philadelphia, and bob» t wit wrote about the visit as follcwe: n7o vioit CongretB curse two raids divine. i The Ono in iron rich, tho other wlnej ahich wao tho fairer i t were hard to e o ttle Tho mid of cpiriit or the mid of mettle.® Lafayette was sufficiently impressed by her extractions to begin, after hor carriage in 1626, a correspondence with her lasting till hie death in Usy, 1854 (hie lt.st letter to her 1b dated ISarch 13, 1854), end chc and her husband wore enterteinod by h ie a t La Orange during th e ir v is it to Lurppo in 1833-1854. suptl: i r « T 4 . (Soe p -7 ). Elisa nldgoly and hor grandnothor. .ih ilc H. 7,m ¡aantionB his unusual exporienco in having soon both his o?n grand-no the r and bars, he e&vs nothing about a second re la tio n sh ip between the two ladies which is oosrasno rated \ in the finally annals. Elisa Eidgely *s cother died at the age of 19 on the day of Elisa’s birth (fob. 10, 1803), and her grand mother, It s . it-.rtin Eichelborgor, the ’vigorous old lady*, became hor fostor-nother. hunt ’henry*, I have understood, was the baby who partook of a share in hor mother’s ministrations to the orphaned grand -ohlld . SUPPLT.lfllfJT 5 * (Lee p -1 3 ). John H. ji. Latrobo. Tho'gentloaan T?ho did not thave* was tho erdnent l&wyor, J . H. 3« Latrobo, vrhoce ’ Life* "has lately bean w ritten by John K. Sonnes. He was the ex a ct contenpors-ry o f E lira liidgoly, both being born in 1803, and th ere en ie ts o f eaoh a portrait by Lully. At tho tico of Laffeyotte’s visit in Baltimore in 1834, Latrobo wad ono o f the esoort appointed by Ton. Eobort Ooodloo Harper to acoisapany the distinguished visitor, and ho has given an sousing account of the aiecenfort Trhioh he experienced in riding to Washington beside the Genera carriage orring to the rapid pace at which this V-B driven. Line© Latrobo been a friend of Elisa Jiidgoly’s fron her youth, hor daughter Mrs. Shite vn.s naturally coixoended to his care. His father Ben^auin K. Latrobo ic well known as the arohitoct of tho Capitol in Washington In 1 L 0 3 and again after tho cataotropho of 1812; anyone n o ticin g the •tobacco* colunaiB in the jlorth Wing can judge of tho beauty o f hi6 designs. Ferdinand C. Latrobo, tho 'perpetual* n».yor of Baltinore, was a non of John 11. 3. Latrobo; to his adninictrntion v.e cwo the three bridges over the F. R. R. tracks and Jonoa' Fells. EUPTU H-HT 6. (Toe p-24«) Countsrmn3 ing of the d rill In 1861« "he /late lire. Charles Tiddly (aunt of H* ?.«) explained her husband's hurried turning to hie company, known c.G 'The Baltimore County I'orso Guards', that thoro would be no d rill on the following taturday. On tho day appointed the ladies of the family more driven to Towsontaim as U6ual in tlie open c a rria g e ; thero they found knots of people gathered on the street corners who appeared to bo on the tip-toe of expectancy; at or-oh group the carriage me ordered to stop and the ladies smilingly distributed religious tracts. l*ctn- wrhile in response to a Turnons, Captain Kidgely arrived on horseback in plain c lothoc; ho dismounted a t Ady's tavern, whore a military officer ordered him to give up the arms, otc« his answor was that ho had roceived then frori tho State of Jiiryland and thf-t the State elon© had 1 authority to withdraw then« ITo ms not arrested, but a \ hoavy p is to l in one o f tho h o lste rs o f his saddle mas appropriated« The rate of this pistol had remined at kanpton, whero a t a la te r day i t aocoapanled the n ig h t- watchman on h is rounds» I / / ¿ w ^ /gv) (\! 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