Unpublished Letters of James Buchanan By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T A meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held on Friday evening, January 6th, 1928, attention was re-called that James Buchanan, Lancaster county's most distinguished citizen, and the only son of Penn- sylvania to

represented. Fortunately, a number of these letters have been preserved. I am quoting from several of them such portions as relate to Lancaster and its inhabitants. They throw an interesting side-light on conditions as they existed in that eventful year of 1777. September 24th, 1777, James Lovell wrote to

Sunday-School Society of Saint James's Church, Lancaster / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): St. James Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Female Sunday-School Society of Saint James's Church (Lancaster, Pa.) Episcopal Church--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Women--Pennsylvania

v. A BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LETTER By William Frederic Worner In the Division of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C., there is an original letter writen by Benjamin Franklin to Edward Ship- pen, Esq., of Lancaster, Pa. The communication is a short one, and in it the illustrious

"Pepper come rent" originated during the Middle Ages. Webster defines it as follows : "A rent consisting in supplying a certain amount, usually a pound, of black pepper cornes, at stated intervals ;" also "a nominal rent in kind operating to keep alive the paramount or dominant title to a property

stated that President Buchanan "returned to his home [Wheatland] following his term as President of the United States and prac- tised law at the Lancaster bar." James Buchanan was admitted to the bar, in Lancaster, November 17th, 1812, and practiced law here until he entered upon his political career

letters, autographs, etc., by his uncle, the later George M. Steinman, president of the Lancaster County Historical Society for twenty years,—from the time of its re-organization in 1896, until the end of 1916. In this history is an interesting letter, written, by William Augustus Atlee, in June, 1781

"Mr. Carusi will present a variety of novel and interesting composition, among others the new and much admired music, with its echo, on the same instru- ment. Also the favorite tune of Yankee Doodle, with the recent variations." Whether or not this was the last concert given by Mr. Carusi in

President was received by a committee from Lancaster which bad journeyed to Columbia to receive him. It was composed of the following prominent citizens: Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Capt. Joseph Reynolds, Alexander L. Hayes, Col. George W. Hamersly, James Buchanan, John C. Van Camp, William Gleim, Ellis Lewis

. Attempts were made during the reign of this monarch and that of his successor, James II, to establish the Church of England in Scotland and destroy the religious system universally established and dearly cherished by a people devoted to king and country• These attempts were pursued by persecutions as mean