its obscurity, and has given to us the only out- line, so far as known, of the original building of St. James's church. LETTERS OF JAMES BUCHANAN By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN 1908, the J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia and Lon- don, published, in twelve volumes, "The Works of James Buchanan

many years ago by the Right Rev. Dr. Samuel Bowman, assistant bishop of Pennsylvania and beloved rector of St. James's Protestant Epis- copal church, Lancaster, from 1830 to 1861. James Damant, organist of St. James's church and an excel- lent scholar, taught a school for young ladies, which was quite

the printing establishment of Sleight & Tucker, Jamaica, L. I., and the title page contained the following: "A Valedictory Sermon preached in St. James's Church, Lancas- ter," etc. In the library of The Lancaster County Historical Society are books which were originally the property of the Sunday

many who walk our streets a cen- tury from now will be as much surprised to learn of our, to them, old-fashioned and primitive ways of living, as we who read this article, are to learn of the doings of our forebears of early Lan- caster. "Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." ("Times change, and

affording medical relief to the needy.1 At this meeting a constitution was unanimously adopted as follows : Article 1. This society shall be called The Dispensary of Saint James's Church, Lancaster. Article 2. The object of the society shall be to afford med- ical relief to the indigent. Article 3. All

. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1925 Description: 30-35 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 28, no. 2 Notes: From newspaper entitled "Neue Unpartheyische Lancaster Zeitung und

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

church, and sat with them during divine service. During the first year, twenty pupils earned prayer books, and this enabled them to participate in the public services. Attached to the school was a library. The books were presented by members of the congregation. The library was used as an additional

1842." Since that article was published I have discovered in a local newspaper that another flag handsomely decorated by a local artist was pre- sented to the Lancaster Fencibles in the fall of 1841, nine months before the beautiful standard—a gift of the citizens of Baltimore, Md., — was presented to

could see you ; I can hear you and you sound fine. I have always wanted to come to Lancaster and I am going to do so sometime in the daylight and see the home of President Buchanan. I have a personal interest in the Buchanan home ; many years ago, my father was secretary to James Buchanan when he was