executors and that they should turn all of the residue over, "absolutely," to the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children of Baltimore City. However, �if her brother-in-law, Josiah Lee Johnston, would survive her and would file in Baltimore City orphans court within six months after her death a written

, Washington, D.C., for July 5, 1903, commented as fol- lows: Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the niece of President James Bu- chanan and lady of the White House during his Presidency, was a person in whom the people of our nation took a kindly interest for half a century. This regard is due not alone to the fact

. His love for music had a great influence on Mrs. Johnston, and it prob- ably caused her to establish what is now St. Albans School. Dr. Hodges was born in Bristol, England, in the same year that Harriet Lane was born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania-1830. He acquired his love of music naturally, from his

admit, but not enough to entice an American Prin- cess from her home! God bless you, my dear Hattie, and believe me, Yours devotedly, George [Plitt] March 12, 1858 Miss Lane. The original of this letter is preserved as pages 1180-1182 in the Harriet Lane Johnston Papers in the Library of Congress