their children they founded and amply endowed the Harriet Lane Johnston Hos- pital for boys, and a training school for nurses." The Boston Even- ing Transcript for May 9 carried an almost identical statement, ex- cept referring to a hospital for girls, rather than for boys. Mrs. Johnston's Bequest To

surmounted by the letters A-0 in- �tertwined (Alpha and Omega) and on the orle of the cress,—"The souls of the righteous are in the hands of the Lord." Henry Elliot Johnston June 30, 1831 — May 5, 1884 Harriet Lane Johnston May 9, 1830 — July 3, 1903 In her will, Harriet Lane Johnston directed her executors

, 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

devotion to the Relief of the Sufferings of Childhood. �A fund was left in her will to found in 1904 the St. Alban's Choir School on the west side of the Cathedral Close in Washington. This is a memorial to her two sons. Half of her legacy saw the construction of the Lane-Johnston Building, which houses

mother, which Quickened and deepened her devotion to the Relief of the Sufferings of Childhood" In The Cathedral Age for 1951 there appeared this beautiful tribute to Harriet Lane Johnston: Erected on the west side of the Washington Cathedral Close, St. Albans School was founded in 1904 through the

purser ship in the Navy, or pay Master in the Army." Mrs. Clymer's letter comprises pages 1172 and 1173 in the Harriet Lane Johnston Papers in the Manuscript Division of the Li- brary of Congress. And of course, during the White House years Harriet was asked �to intercede for persons aspiring appointment

United States and the Buchanan family, over a period of fifty years, was priceless at time of his death and would become increasingly useful as source material for historians. Main- ly through the efforts of his niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, a large portion of these papers have been preserved in both