allow her $180 per annum, so as to make her income $600. Yours affectionately, James Buchanan P.S. I send this letter by General Thomas for greater security. �Harriet Lane Johnston (1830-1903) Painted in 1899. Photo Courtesy of A. Aubrey Bodine �Surgeon General Foltz shows us the self-assertiveness of

of her life. It reads In the memory of the Founder of this House Harriet Lane Johnston and of her husband Henry Elliot Johnston and her two sons James Buchanan and Henry Elliot Johnston, Jr. And in perpetual witness of the love and sorrow of the wife and mother which quickened and deepened her

Buchanan letters / by F. R. Diffenderffer, Litt.D. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence. Caldwell, James A. Barton, George W., 1807-1851. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1904/1905 Description: [37

to the United States Senate. That during this period he made a professional incursion into Kentucky or was a party to any of the incidents above related is certainly apocryphal. We have no diary of his movements in 1813; but there is little probability and no trace in his biographical papers or

. Hoping you may be able to proclaim on the 5th of November, from it in thunder tones, to the inhabitants of your beautiful city and the sur- rounding country, that Pennsylvania's Favorite Son, the Hon. James Bu- chanan, is the President-Elect of these United States. I remain, yours respectfully, Henry B