Presents a biography of James Buchanan's niece who was the White House hostess during her uncle's presidency, helped create the National Gallery of Art, and started the first pediatrics hospital.
Warne's picture puzzle toy book. : Comprising The house we live in. Our holidays. The nursery play book. Holiday fun. : With twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim
Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden. ;
Scribner, Welford and Co.,
Date of Publication
[1869]
Physical Description
[12] leaves, [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm
Notes
"This volume contains four distinct subjects, with upwards of eight hundred figures represented in blank spaces. These have to be filled up by the careful cutting out of the coloured pictures from the keys, and their insertion in the blank spaces of the respective books."--preface, second leaf.
The story of president James Buchanan's lost love. He was engaged to be married to Ann Coleman in 1819. She broke off the engagement and told Buchanan she never wanted to see him again. Within a few months she died suddenly. Buchanan never married and kept her portrait in his bedroom until his death.
v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
