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

York under date of February 12, 1874, and, among other things, stated, "Not a word from the Executors or any thing further from Mr. [James Buchanan] Henry. I think it is high time." (Page 2154, Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Con- gress). In a letter of April 21, 1874, from 120 Park Street

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