] came a day or two ago — & I have taken the liberty of referring the gentleman (whom I do not know) to you — for an account of the "ne- gotiation" — as you will best know, what had better be told, & what withheld, in case there is still any hope of the purchase, & proper ar- rangements being made. I

incidentally absorbing his statesmanlike view of the political questions of the day." (Pages 165-166, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century). Perhaps at about the time she was completing her book Mrs. Ellet interviewed Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston and thus procured first-hand information. Two of Mrs

"demonstrated" in her later life "that she was an American queen by nature and social position, if not by birth, and one of the kindliest and sweetest in the nation's capital." One of the longest editorials in the Philadelphia Inquirer,Mon- day morning, July 6, 1903, was entitled "Death of Harriet Lane Johnston

of the building would be devoted. In an article in the Baltimore American for the same day, Mar- tin J. Porter said that the Harriet Lane Home had been completed and that it would form a "conspicuous factor" in the "broad humani- tarian work" of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and that the new build- ing

, to accompany the Book of Common Prayer. When Dr. J. S. B. Hodges came to St. Paul's in Baltimore he saw an opportunity to introduce English cathedral tradition. In American churches in the 1870's choirs consisted of men and women in street clothes. Hodges wanted to have boys replace women in the