{"1": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nDDDDBSDEt.T?", "height": "3105", "width": "1762", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ".V U\\n1; ^o v^", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2990", "width": "1623", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2954", "width": "1335", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2990", "width": "1623", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2990", "width": "1623", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Jil_", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SALONS\\nCOLONIAL AND\\nREPUBLICAN\\nBY\\nANNE HOLLINGSWORTH\\nWHARTON\\nu\\nWITH NUMEROUS REPRODUCTIONS OF\\nPORTRAITS AND MINIATURES OF MEN\\nAND WOMEN PROMINENT IN COLONIAL\\nLIFE AND IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE\\nREPUBLIC\\nPHILADELPHIA LONDON\\nJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY\\n1900", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED.\\nL/brary of Cangrti%\\nOffiee cf th\u00c2\u00ab\\nAPR 7 1900\\nlt(eKl\u00c2\u00abt\u00c2\u00abr of Copyrigkttf\\n64508\\nCopyright, igoo, by\\nJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.\\nFIRST COPY,\\n%^*^3", "height": "2970", "width": "1550", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nTHE interest felt in Colonial life in\\nAmerica has become deep and wide-\\nspread, nor does it show signs of\\nabatement. Indeed, the subject is almost\\ninexhaustible, if we include under the term\\nColonial the settlements along the northern\\nborders of the United States and the no less\\npicturesque Spanish mission-life of the Pacific\\nslope.\\nTo treat in this volume of some phases of\\nAmerican life of a later date has been sug-\\ngested to the writer by two or three incidents.\\nWhile in W^ashington last spring, she had\\nthe pleasure of meeting several persons who\\ndistinctly remembered Mrs. Madison the de-\\nlightful Dolly as she appeared in later\\nyears at a reception given by Mr. Webster in\\nthe house afterwards owned by Mr. Corcoran.\\nAgain, while standing before a picture of\\nStenton, which hangs upon the walls of the\\nHistorical Society of Pennsylvania, a lady\\nentered the hall who recalled Mrs. Deborah\\nLogan as she presided over her tea-table at\\nStenton, reviving pleasant impressions of the\\ndelectable crispness of the short-cakes which", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nthe Quaker lady handed to her guests with a\\ncup of tea, in her drawing-room, long before\\nthe fashion of afternoon tea prevailed in\\nAmerica. Another person, who was known\\nto the writer in her childhood, delighted to\\nrelate to her grand-nieces a pleasing tale of\\nbeing taken by her mother ta one of the\\nwindows of their home, which overlooked\\nthe State House in Philadelphia, and there\\nbeing told to stand upon a chair and look at\\nthe tall gentleman who was entering the build-\\ning opposite, as she might never again see so\\ngreat a man. The tall gentleman was His\\nExcellency President Washington, who for\\nnearly seven years, while the new^ capital on\\nthe banks of the Potomac w^as in course of\\nerection, walked from his house on High Street\\nto the State House and Congress Hall, and in\\nand out among these buildings. These hu-\\nman links with a storied past lend a vividness\\nand reality to the life of an earlier day that\\n\\\\vritten history fails to supply. It was with\\nan idea of giving some of the recollections\\nof those who could still recall incidents and\\npersons in the early years of the fast fading\\ncentury, that to the Colonial chapter of this\\nbook, and to those upon life in New York and\\nPhiladelphia soon after the Revolution, there\\nhave been added chapters upon the Federal\\nCity during the administrations of Adams,\\nJefferson, and Madison, and upon Philadelphia\\nlife during the brilliant social reign of Mrs.\\nJames Rush.", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nThe word salon has been used to des-\\nignate the Republican dra\\\\ving-rooms here\\ndescribed, because no other term so fitly repre-\\nsents social circles presided over by cultivated\\nwomen as that which was first applied to\\nthe brilliant coteries gathered together by the\\nfamous French women of the seventeenth\\ncentury, who knew so well how to combine\\nintellectual ability with womanly grace and\\ncharm.\\nA. H. W.\\nBirdwood, York Road,\\nPhiladelphia, November, 1899.\\nvu", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS\\nPage\\nMRS. CHARLES AUGUSTUS MURRAY (Miss Elizabeth\\nWadsworth). From portrait by Thomas Sully, in posses-\\nsion of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hopkinson, of Philadelphia,\\nThis panel portrait bears on the reverse the monogram\\nT. S. Frontispiece\\nCOLONEL WILLIAM RHETT, of Charleston, South Caro-\\nlina. Miniature in possession of Mrs. Nephew West i8\\nMRS. CHARLES WILLING (Anne Shippen). From original\\nportrait by Robert Feke, in possession of her great-grand-\\nson, Mr. Edward Willing, of Philadelphia. Dark hair and\\neyes, florid complexion gown of olive and black brocade 25\\nMRS. ADAMS (Sarah Eve). From original miniature by Charles\\nB. J. F. de Saint Memin, owned by her niece, Mrs. Anna L.\\nEve Stevenson 33\\nCOLONEL WILLIAM BRADFORD, born January ig, 1721\\ndied September 15, 1791. Miniature owned by great-great-\\ngreat-grandson, Willing Spencer, of Philadelphia 33\\nLADY CATHERINE DUER (Catherine Alexander). From\\noriginal miniature, owned by Mr. William Alexander Duer,\\nof New York 40\\nWILLIAM KING, first Governor of Maine. From original\\nminiature in possession of Mr. Edv^ard King, of New York 40\\nCOLONEL JEREMIAH WADSWORTH. From original\\ncrayon by James Sharpies, owned by Mr. Charles A. Brin-\\nley, of Philadelphia. The complexion delicate and fine the\\ncoat a dark blue 49\\nLADY TEMPLE (Elizabeth Bowdoin). Portrait by John\\nSingleton Copley, painted about the time of her marriage to\\nMr. Temple, afterwards Sir John Temple, owned by Mrs.\\nWinthrop Tappan 52\\nM. PIERRE HENRI, of Paris. Miniature painted by himself,\\nowned by his granddaughter, Mrs Edward Y. Townsend, of\\nPhiladelphia 62", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS\\nPage\\nMRS. CHAUNCEY GOODRICH (Marianne Wolcott). From\\nminiature by a S\\\\vedish artist, owed by Mrs, Charles A.\\nBrinley, of Philadelphia. Brilliant complexion, brown hair,\\nthrough which a blue ribbon is tied blue gown of the same\\nshade as the ribbon 62\\nHENRY PRATT. Original portrait by Gilbert Stuart, owned\\nby Mrs. Joshua Lippincott, of Philadelphia. Dark eyes,\\nflorid complexion powdered wig, red waistcoat red curtain\\nin the background 73\\nMRS. HENRY NIXON and MRS. JAMES MARSHALL, the\\ndaughters of Robert Morris. Portrait by Gilbert Stuart.\\nMr. Morris had ordered the picture and paid sixty guineas\\nfor it but when he ventured to make some criticism, Stuart\\nwas so angry that he cut the canvas and had the picture\\nstowed away in his ov^rn garret. Mr. James Marshall after-\\nwards bought the picture, at the original price, from Stuart\\nor his daughter. It has been carefully restored and is now\\nov^^ned by the granddaughters of Mr. Marshall, the Misses\\nMarshall of Happy Creek, Warren County, Virginia 97\\nCOLONEL JOHN COX, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey. Minia-\\nture owned by great-granddaughter, Miss Mary Clapier Coxe,\\nof Philadelphia 108\\nMAJOR-GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. From miniature\\nby John Ramage, in possession of his great-grandson. Major\\nWilliam Wayne, of Paoli, Pennsylvania 108 L\\nJUDGE WILLIAM BARTON. Portrait by Charles Willson 1\\nPes i, owned by Dr. William Barton Hopkins, of Philadel-\\nphia no i\\nMRS. WILLIAM BARTON (Elizabeth Rhea). Portrait of Mrs.\\nBarton with her little daughter Betsy in her arms. Light t\\nbrown hair dark background, the gown of rich brocade or\\nvelvet of a delicate old-rose shade 113\\nTHE HONORABLE SAMUEL BRECK. From original por-\\ntrait painted in France by Loubet, in possession of grand-\\nnephew, Mr. Charles du Pont Breck, of Scranton, Pennsyl-\\nvania. Blue eyes and fair complexion. Mr. Breck is in court\\ncostume, ivith powdered hair his coat is of golden brown\\nwith large white buttons lace ruffles, white stock 138\\nMR. and MRS. HENRY PHILIPS. Copied from miniatures by\\nRichard Cosway, owned by great-grandson. Colonel James 4\\nEglinton Montgomery, of Philadelphia. Both of these min-\\niatures are very beautiful in composition and color, with the\\nbackground of blue sky and light clouds beloved by Cosway. 139\\nxii i", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS\\nPage\\nMRS. WILLIAM BINGHAM (Anne Willing). From portrait\\nby Stuart, owned by Countess Jacques de Bryas, of Paris X41\\nMRS. W^ILLIAM BYRD, of Westover (Mary Willing), and\\ndaughter. From portrait by Cosmo Alexander, in possession\\nof Mr. Edward Willing, of Philadelphia. Black hair, brown\\neyes, fair complexion white satin gown, the sleeves slashed\\nwith delicate pink satin.\\nThe child has brown eyes and fair hair, and wears a blue\\ndress, with flowers and a blue cockade in the hair 145\\nMRS. JOHN REDMAN COXE (Sarah Cox), Portrait by\\nThomas Sully, owned by Mrs. Edward Parke Custis Lewis,\\nof Hoboken, New Jersey 168\\nMRS. THOMAS LAW (Eliza Parke Custis). Portrait by Gil-\\nbert Stuart, owned by Mrs. George Goldsborough, of Balti-\\nmore, granddaughter. This is one of the most beautiful of\\nStuart s portraits of \\\\vomen, the flesh tints are fine, and the\\nmodelling of the face and arms is very good 174\\nMRS. JOSEPH HOPPER NICHOLSON (Rebecca Lloyd).\\nOriginal miniature by Richard Cosway, owned by Mrs.\\nEdward Shippen, of Baltimore, granddaughter 187\\nCHARLES HALL, of Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Miniature\\nowned by the descendants of Mr. Hall. Fair complexion,\\nblue eyes, light hair, powdered the coat is of a delicate\\nshade of violet or mauve, and the white waistcoat is dotted\\no^fer vfith _fieurs-iie-fys of the aame shads of violet 187\\nLADY ERSKINE (Frances Cadwalader). Portrait by Gilbert\\nStuart, owned by grand-nephew, Dr. Charles E. Cadwal-\\nader, of Philadelphia. Dark hair and eyes, delicate feat-\\nures simple white muslin gown, which contrasts wrell with\\nthe dark red background of the picture. This portrait was\\npainted soon after Mrs. Erskine s marriage, when she was\\nabout eighteen years of age 195\\nDR. JOHN BULLUS, U. S. N. Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, in\\npossession of granddaughters. Miss BuUus and Mrs. Taylor,\\nof New York 199\\nMRS. JOHN BULLUS (Charlotte Jane Rumsey). Portrait by\\nGilbert Stuart, in possession of granddaughters, Miss Bullus\\nand Mrs, Taylor of New York 200\\nMRS. JAMES H. CALLANDER (Jane Erskine). Portrait\\namong celebrated beauties in the King of Bavaria s gallery\\nat Munich ac6\\nMRS. JONATHAN DICKINSON SERGEANT. From original\\nminiature, in possession of great-great-granddaughter, Mrs.\\nJohn F. Hageman, Jr., of Philadelphia 214\\nKlU", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS\\nPage\\nMRS. ALEXANDER ROBINSON (Angelica Peale), From\\noriginal miniature painted by her father, Charles Willson\\nPeale 314\\nMRS. BARNES (Priscilla Birch). Miniature on enamel, painted\\nby her father, William Russell Birch, owned by Mr. Milton\\nBirch, of Philadelphia, great-grandson of the artist 233\\nMRS. CHARLES IREN^E du PONT (Dorcas Montgomery\\nVan Dyke), of New Castle, Delaware. Portrait by Thomas\\nSully, owned by daughter. Miss Mary Van Dyke du Pont, of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Wilmington 227\\nMRS. LANGDON CHEVES (Mary Elizabeth Dulles). Minia-\\nture by Edward Greene Malbone, in possession of niece.\\nMiss Mary C. Dulles, of Philadelphia 239\\nISABEL BARRON, of Charleston, South Carolina. Miniature\\npainted by Edward Greene Malbone, in 1806, cwned by Miss\\nAugusta Bliss, of New York. The eyes and hair brown,\\nthe latter of a rich auburn shade, the complexion fair with\\na brilliant bloom on the cheeks the gown of deep red\\ntrimmed with black lace 339\\nMR. and MRS. RICHARD DANA, of Boston. From original\\nminiatures by Edward Greene Malbone, in possession of\\ngrandson, General Charles W. Darling, of Utica, New York.\\nThese miniatures are beautiful and delicate in color, espe-\\ncially that of Mr. Dana. He wears a blue coat with fine\\nlace ruffles. Mrs. Dana s gown is white with lace around\\nthe neck and a waistband of pale pink ribbon 331\\nMR. and MRS. FRANCIS MARTIN DREXEL. These two\\nminiatures were painted by Mr. Francis Martin Drexel and\\nare owned by his daughter, Mrs. John G. Watmough, of\\nPhiladelphia 333\\nTHE ANTWERP STRAWBERRIES, Susan and Phoebe\\nAnn Ridgway. Portrait painted at Antwerp in 1805, owned\\nby Mrs. Edward ^Villing, of Philadelphia 337\\nDR. and MRS. JAMES RUSH. Miniatures owned by the Ridg-\\nway Library Company, of Philadelphia 340\\nTHOMAS FISHBOURN WHARTON. From crayon portrait\\nby Vander Lyn, the inscription being Done by Vander Lyn,\\nParis, Prairial, Aug. 7, 1799. Original portrait in possession\\nof Miss Susan Fishbourn Wharton 343\\nMR. JAMES DUNDAS, of Philadelphia. Original portrait by\\nHenry Inman, owned by niece, Mrs. Joshua Lippincott.\\nGray eyes, florid complexion, brown hair 347", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS\\nPage\\nMRS. JAMES DUNDAS (Anna Pratt). Original portrait by\\nHenry Inman, owned by Mrs. Joshua Lippincott. Dark blue\\neyes, light brown hair, fair complexion gown of Indian red 247\\nMRS. JOHN JACOB RIDGWAY (Elizabeth Willing). From\\nportrait by Alexandre Cabanel, of Paris 251\\nMRS. JOHN WILLIAM W^ALLACE, of Philadelphia (Dorothy\\nFrancis Willing). From an original miniature by George\\nFreeman, in her own possession. Delicate complexion,\\nbrown hair white gown 254\\nMRS. JOHN BUTLER (Gabriella M. Morris), New York. Por-\\ntrait by George Freeman, in possession of Miss Adele Biddle,\\nof Philadelphia. Brown eyes and hair, white gown with\\nlace bertha 26a\\nMRS. JAMES S. WADSWORTH (Mary Craig Wharton).\\nFrom portrait by Thomas Sully, in possession of her son,\\nMr. Charles F. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, N. Y 263\\nNICHOLAS BIDDLE, of Philadelphia. Original portrait by\\nThomas Sully, owned by his son, the Honorable Craig\\nBiddle, of Philadelphia 267\\nMRS. NICHOLAS BIDDLE (Jane M. Craig). Original portrait\\nby Thomas Sully, owned by her son, the Honorable Craig\\nBiddle. Eyes and hair dark, complexion florid; large hat\\nwith gray feathers, gown of salmon-colored silk, mantle of\\npinkish gray silk background sky effect with clear blue 269", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nCHAPTER I Page\\nA Colonial Salon ii\\nCHAPTER II\\nRepublican Drawing-Rooms 35\\nCHAPTER III\\nLife in the Quaker Capital 70\\nCHAPTER IV\\nSalons Gay and Grave 118\\nCHAPTER V\\nLife in the Federal City 172\\nCHAPTER VI\\nAn Early Art Centre 210\\nCHAPTER VII\\nMrs. Rush and Her Salon 235\\nix", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "SALONS\\nCOLONIAL AND REPUBLICAN\\nCHAPTER I. A COLONIAL SALON\\nFOR some cause unknown to the mind\\nof man, but better understood by those\\nfeminine processes that are said to take\\nthe place of the reasoning faculty in the other\\nsex, it has always been the ambition and de-\\nlight of a certain class of superior w^omen to\\nrule and shin-e in a social atmosphere some-\\nwhat different from that of the conventional\\nball and dinner.\\nIn France this taste early found expression\\nin the salon. At the Hotel de Rambouillet, la\\nbelle ArtM7iice and her daughter Julie gathered\\naround them the gay and the wise of Paris,\\nproving, in that pleasure-loving age and city,\\nthat even the frivolous could at times yield\\ngracefully to the claims of learning and elo-\\nquence.\\nHere, at the bidding of the hostess, whose\\nmandates none might disobey, Corneille and\\nMoliere read their dramas, Voiture and Chape-\\nlain recited their poems, or the ardent, inspired\\nBossuet preached a sermon to the gayest\\nand the most critical hearers in Europe.", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAmong the guests of Madame de Rambouillet,\\nlistening, and taking notes for her beloved\\ndaughter in the provinces that were destined\\nto be read with delight by future generations,\\nis Madame de Sevigne, and by her side the\\nbeautiful and witty Anne Genevieve de Bour-\\nbon, Duchesse de Longueville, who conceals\\na yawn behind her fan and whispers to her\\nneighbor that Chapelain s Z is doubt-\\nless a very beautiful poem, but also very\\ntiresome, or admits that the productions of\\nthe great Conde, who sometimes courted the\\nMuses, were bad for a poet, but fairly good\\nfor a warrior.\\nThe London salon of a later date, which\\nwas an adaptation from the French, always\\npossessed certain Anglo-Saxon characteristics,\\nand if less graceful, charming, and epigram-\\nmatic than that of Paris, was marked by\\ndeeper thought and perhaps by greater sincer-\\nity. Mrs. Montague, and other members of\\nthe Blue Stocking Club, held salons that were\\ndeemed not unworthy of the presence and\\nconversation of Dr. Johnson and his literary\\nconfreres. These reunions of the literati of\\nLondon were largely dominated by the auto-\\ncratic lexicographer, w^hose gentle hostesses\\nwere ever ready to welcome him w^armly and\\ngive him a comfortable place by the fire, in\\nwhich to imbibe his innumerable cups of tea\\nand to utter for the edification of the company\\nhis dogmatic, racy strictures upon the world\\nand the inhabitants thereof.", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAlthough no salon could have been held in\\nthe New W^orld that in any degree approached\\nthese brilliant circles in Paris and London,\\nthere were not a few^ clever women in Colonial\\nlife, lovers of good literature and, especially\\nin the Northern and Middle Colonies, women\\nwho wielded ready pens, like Mrs. Simon\\nBradstreet, Mrs. James V/arren, Mrs. John\\nAdams, Mrs. Richard Stockton, and Elizabeth\\nGraeme. It is not strange that the idea of a\\nsalon, of drawing together men and women\\nof learning and conversational powers, should\\nhave suggested itself to the active and intelli-\\ngent mind of Elizabeth Graeme, and that she\\nshould have gathered around her a circle of\\nchoice spirits at her father s home in Philadel-\\nphia and at his country-seat, Graeme Park, in\\nMontgomery County.\\nElizabeth Graeme, better know^n as Mrs.\\nHugh Ferguson,* was during the latter half\\nof the last century easily the most learned\\nw^oman in America. A chronicler of the pe-\\nriod says A mind like hers, imbued with\\nAlthough a fac-simile of the signature of Elizabeth\\nFerguson shows that she \u00e2\u0080\u00a2wrote her name Fergusson, the\\nabove spelling is used by contemporary historians. Mrs.\\nFerguson is the Cat Ferguson at whose expense Dr.\\nMitchell s Aunt Gainor so frequently sharpened her\\nwits. It is only fair to say that the author of Hugh\\nWynne has availed himself of a novelist s privilege and\\ndrawn a fanciful character, as Mrs. Ferguson was a\\nwoman of lovable and gentle nature, despite her keen wit\\nand marked personality.\\n13", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nelegant literature, and herself a poetess, readily\\nformed frequent literary coteries at her father s\\nmansion so much so, as to make it the town-\\ntalk of her day.\\nDr. Thomas Graeme was a leading physi-\\ncian and a man who held important positions\\nin the government, while his wife, a step-\\ndaughter of Sir W^illiam Keith, Governor of\\nPennsylvania, had been reared in such luxury\\nand refinement as the English life of her day\\nafforded. A woman possessed of a masculine\\nmind, with all the female charms and accom-\\nplishments which render a woman agreeable\\nto both sexes, Mrs. Thomas Graeme was\\ndescribed by an acute and discriminating ob-\\nserver of the time, to which it may be added,\\nupon the authority of another writer, that she\\nwas deeply religious and devoted to all that\\nwas best in life and character. Young Francis\\nHopkinson, while upon a visit to Graeme Park,\\ndedicated one of his earliest poetic efforts to\\na description of this lady s lovely and noble\\nqualities. It is not, ho\\\\vever, as an austere\\nsaint that Mrs. Graeme appears upon the pages\\nof Colonial history. From her own letters,\\nand from the descriptions of contemporaries,\\nshe seems to have been a warm-hearted, affec-\\ntionate woman, loving her kind, and possessing\\nthe power, which her daughter inherited from\\nher, of gathering around her certain choice\\nspirits whom she elected as her associates.\\nIn speaking of the Graemes and their country\\nhome in Montgomery County, Dr. Benjamin\\n14", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nRush said This retreat was, moreover, con-\\nsecrated to society and friendship. A plentiful\\ntable was spread daily for visitors, and two\\nor three ladies from Philadelphia generally\\npartook with Miss Graeme of the enjoyments\\nwhich her situation in the country afforded.\\nMrs. Graeme, like her daughter, possessed\\na certain facility for verse-making, although\\nshe lacked the delicate fancy and nimble wit\\nthat characterize some of Elizabeth Graeme s\\nwritings, perhaps because the older w^oman s\\nMuse was of a chastened and religious nature.\\nReligion was then considered the only proper\\nsphere for women in literature, no matter\\nwhat frivolous or even naughty verses the\\nDean of St. Patrick s or Mr. Pope might be\\nwriting at the same time in England.\\nAlthough Mr. Joshua Francis Fisher wrote\\nof Elizabeth Graeme s poems that she can-\\nnot be said to be a favorite of the Muses,\\nand her lines are not perfumed with that fra-\\ngrant nectar which those divinities are said\\nto sprinkle over the verses of their friends,\\nsome of these lines possess a grace and charm\\nfound in few women s poems of the period. To\\nthe small circle of her own city. Miss Graeme\\n^vas known through her contributions to the\\nPennsylvania Packet and the Columbia Magazine.\\nHer most extensive work was the translating\\nof Fenelon s Aventures de Tde maque into Eng-\\nlish verse, which was undertaken when the\\ntranslator was about twenty-one years of\\nage. This translation of Tdimaque was never\\nIS", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\npublished, but the manuscript, carefully pre-\\nserved, is in the possession of the Philadelphia\\nLibrary Company, a lasting memorial to the\\nindustry and intelligence of this remarkable\\nyoung woman. Instead of the classic French\\nof the Abbe, Calypso ne pouvait se consoler du\\ndipart d Ulysse, with its picture of the dis-\\ntracted Goddess roaming the shores of her\\nisland home in the hope of the return of the\\nbeloved wanderer, \\\\ve read in Miss Graeme s\\nmanuscript volumes the following lines\\nNo dawn of comfort could Calypso find,\\nNo balm to soften her distracted mind\\nEternal hope her tortured bosom pain d,\\nAnd immortality her anguish chain d.\\nA length of years appeared a train of woe;\\nA dreadful channel for her griefs to flow.\\nUlysses gone, no place affords delight,\\nThe absent Hero haunts her anxious Sight\\nHer voice Mellifluous echo d not around.\\nNo floating air returned the silver sound.\\nWhatever may be the faults of Miss Graeme s\\ntranslation of Td^maque, it must be admit-\\nted that there were few women in America,\\nor even in England, who would have at-\\ntempted such a work, or who, having under-\\ntaken it, could have succeeded half as well. In\\n1764, when about twenty-five years of age,\\nit was Miss Graeme s good fortune to spend\\na year in England under the care of the Rev.\\nRichard Peters, rector of the united parishes\\nof Christ Church and St. Peter s. In speaking\\nof the advantages which the American girl\\nx6", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nenjoyed during her sojourn in the Old World,\\nDr. Rush wrote She was accompanied by\\nthe Rev. Dr. Richard Peters, of Philadelphia,\\na gentleman of highly polished manners, and\\nwhose rank enabled him to introduce her to\\nthe most respectable circles of company. She\\nsought, and was sought for by, the most cele-\\nbrated literary gentlemen who flourished in\\nEngland at the time of the accession of George\\nthe Third to the throne. She was introduced\\nto this monarch, and particularly noticed by\\nhim. The celebrated Dr. Fothergill, whom\\nshe consulted as a physician, became her\\nfriend and correspondent as long as she lived.\\nWhile abroad, Miss Graeme visited Scot-\\nland, where she was warmly welcomed by\\nher father s relatives. Dr. Graeme s nephew,\\nThomas Graeme, of Balgowan, gave his young\\nAmerican cousin the family coat-of-arms, and\\nwith it his own book-plate. This book-plate\\nis to be found in some of Elizabeth Graeme s\\nbooks, and is probably the first book-plate\\nused by a woman in America.\\nIn London Miss Graeme numbered among\\nher friends the Honorable Thomas Penn and\\nhis wife, Lady Juliana Penn, both of whom\\nhad sho^vn their interest in the advancement\\nof learning in Pennsylvania by sending gifts\\nto a circulating library at Lancaster.* The\\nFrom the records of this circulating library at Lancas-\\nter, established in 1759, to which Governor Hamilton, the\\nRev. Thomas Barton, Edward Shippen, and Judge William\\nHenry gave generously of their means, it appears that\\n2 17", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nintroductions which Miss Graeme enjoyed\\nthrough her friendship with the Penns, Sir\\nJohn Fothergill, and the Rev. Richard Peters\\ngave her an entree to many interesting circles\\nabroad. It is to be regretted that her diary,\\nw^ritten for the entertainment of her parents\\nand friends at home, has not been preserved.\\nDr. Benjamin Rush, in speaking of this record,\\nw^hich it had been his privilege to read, said\\nthat it contained life-like and spirited pictures\\nof personages and places, such as could only\\nemanate from the mind and the pen of an in-\\ntelligent and impressionable traveller. Por-\\ntraits of some members of the famous Blue\\nStocking Club were doubtless sketched upon\\nthe pages of this diary, which w^as so eagerly\\nlooked for by Dr. and Mrs. Graeme in their\\nPhiladelphia home. Dr. Johnson himself may\\nhave been described by the young American,\\nand Sir Joshua and Garrick and the great\\nBurke, then a young man. A spirited account\\nof Elizabeth Graeme s meeting with Laurence\\nSterne has come down to us from the pen of\\nDr. Rush, who said An accident attached\\nThomas Penn and his wife, Lady Juliana, daughter of the\\nEarl of Fermor, made a donation of books, globes, and as-\\ntronomical apparatus. In testimony of the gratitude of\\nthe founders to this patroness the association was named\\nThe Juliana Library Company in Lancaster, and to further\\nsignify the honor in which this early patroness w^as held,\\nthe quaint seal of the company bears the figure of Minerva\\nleading an illiterate person with one hand, while with the\\nother she points to a shelf of books and a pair of globes.\\nx8", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Colonel William Rhett\\nPage 224", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe sentimental and then popular author of\\nTristram Shandy to her. She took a seat on\\nthe same stage with him at the York races.\\nWhile bets were making on different horses,\\nshe selected a small horse that \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was in the\\nrear of the coursers as the subject of a trifling\\nwager. Upon being asked the reason for do-\\ning so, she said that the race w s not always\\nto the s^wift, nor the battle to the strong.\\nMr. Sterne, who stood near to her, was struck\\nwith this reply, and turning hastily towards\\nher, begged for the honor of her acquaint-\\nance. They soon became sociable, and a\\ngreat deal of pleasant conversation took place\\nbetween them, to the great entertainment of\\nthe surrounding company.\\nAlthough we have not the advantage of\\nreading the notes taken by Miss Graeme\\nabroad, it is quite evident that the literary\\ngatherings to which she w^as introduced in\\nLondon made a deep impression upon her\\nmind, for soon after her return we find her\\npresiding over a smaller circle in her own city\\nmodelled after the English fashion. This was\\nafter the death of Mrs. Graeme, when Dr.\\nGraeme and his daughter were living in a large\\nhouse on the north side of Chestnut Street\\nabove Sixth, which had been built by Joshua\\nCarpenter for a country residence. This house,\\nwith its large garden reaching from Sixth to\\nSeventh and from Chestnut to High Street,\\nwas the home of Governor Thomas from 1738\\nto 1747. It is quaintly recorded that the Gov-\\n19", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nernor s lady, with a kindly feeling for the boys\\nin the neighborhood who cast longing looks\\ntowards her fine cherry-trees which overhung\\nthe sidewalk on Chestnut Street, sometimes\\nallowed them to help themselves to the fruit,\\nwhich was certainly as politic as it was gen-\\nerous. She also, upon June days when her\\nroses were in bloom, frequently indulged the\\npretty girls who strolled past her garden with\\nfragrant nosegays. Mr. John Ross afterwards\\nlived in this house, and although it was within\\na square of the State House, his wife deemed\\nit too remote for their family to live in. Here,\\ndespite the remoteness of her residence, Eliza-\\nbeth Graeme gathered about her the best ele-\\nments of the Philadelphia life of her day. Dr.\\nBenjamin Rush, who was a literary man as\\n^vell as a physician of distinguished ability, de-\\nlighted in the society of Dr. Thomas Graeme\\nand his daughter, and was a constant habitui\\nof their house. To the versatile ready pen of\\nthis writer we are indebted for a description of\\nthis earliest American salon and of its presid-\\ning genius\\nIn her father s family she [Miss Graeme]\\nnow occupied the place of her mother. She\\nkept his house and presided at his table and\\nfireside in entertaining all his company. Such\\nwas the character of Dr. Graeme s family for\\nhospitality and refinement of manners that\\nall strangers of note who visited Philadel-\\nphia were introduced to it. Saturday even-\\nings were appropriated, for many years during\\n20", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMiss Graeme s winter residence in the city,\\nfor the entertainment, not only of strangers,\\nbut of such of her friends of both sexes as\\nwere considered the most suitable company\\nfor them. These evenings were, properly\\nspeaking, of the Attic kind. The genius of\\nMiss Graeme evolved the heat and light that\\nanimated them. She soon discovered,\\nby the streams of information she poured\\nupon her friends, that she had been all eye,\\nall ear, and all grasp during her visit to\\nGreat Britain. One while she instructed\\nby the stores of knowledge contained in the\\nhistorians, philosophers, and poets of ancient\\nand modern nations, which she called forth\\nat her pleasure; and again she charmed by\\na profusion of useful ideas, collected by her\\nvivid and widely expanded imagination, and\\ncombined with exquisite taste and judgment\\ninto an endless variety of elegant and de-\\nlightful forms. Upon these occasions her\\nbody seemed to evanish, and she appeared\\nto be all mind. It was at one of these\\nevening parties she first saw Mr. Henry\\nHugh Ferguson, a handsome and accom-\\nplished young gentleman, who had lately ar-\\nrived in this country from Scotland. They\\nw^ere suddenly pleased with each other. Pri-\\nvate interviews soon took place between them,\\nand in the course of a few months they were\\nmarried. The inequality of their ages (for he\\nwas ten years younger) was opposed in a cal-\\nculation of their conjugal happiness by the\\n21", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsameness of their attachment to books, retire-\\nment, and literary society.\\nDr. Rush s pleasant augury with regard to\\nthe married life of Elizabeth Ferguson \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was\\nnot destined to be realized, as the ill-assorted\\nunion proved most unhappy, and as a climax\\nto the sorrows of this woman, who was cap-\\nable of writing good poetry herself, a versifier\\nof the time penned some wretched lines upon\\nher marriage\\nCan the muse that laments the misfortune of love\\nDraw a shade o er the sorrowful tale,\\nThat Laura was cheated and fully could prove\\nThat Scotchmen have honor that sometimes may fail\\nFor pastoral changed to the tragedy style,\\nAnd taught a hard lesson too late\\nThough the rashness of youth in its folly may smile,\\nYet in tears must submit to its fate.\\nLaura was the pseudonym under which\\nMiss Graeme carried on a rhymed correspond-\\nence, half gay, half serious, with the Rev.\\nNathaniel Evans, who was evidently deeply\\nin love with his fair correspondent. It was in\\nthis merry war of words, especially in certain\\nverses addressed to The Country Parson,\\nthat she revealed the brilliancy of her mind\\nand the delicacy of her wit. Many sorrow^s\\novertook the later years of Elizabeth Fergu-\\nson in consequence of her uncongenial mar-\\nriage, and the unfortunate position in which\\nshe placed herself, during the War of the Rev-\\nolution, by allowing herself to act as an inter-\\nmediary between Governor Johnstone, a Brit-\\n22", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nish Commissioner, and General Joseph Reed,\\nof the Continental Army, with regard to a ces-\\nsation of hostilities. By those who knew^ her\\nbest, Mrs, Ferguson has been estimated as a\\nwoman of elevated and unselfish character,\\nwho acted, whether wisely or unw^isely, ac-\\ncording to the dictates of her conscience. Hers\\nwas a nature cast in a less heroic mould than\\nwere those of her sister poetesses, Mercy\\nWarren and Annis Stockton, both of whom\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2were ardently patriotic, as were Mrs. John\\nAdams, Mrs. David Bell,* Mrs. Philip\\nSchuyler, Mrs. Clement Biddle, and many\\nother ^vomen who, like Elizabeth Ferguson,\\nhad been reared amid English ideas and stand-\\nards and with a certain love and loyalty for\\nthe mother country. The position taken by\\nMrs. Ferguson seems to have been prompted\\nby her great sensibility and her sympathy for\\nthose who were suffering from a war that, as\\nshe thought, was desolating her country, rather\\nthan by any sentiment of loyalty toward Great\\nBritain. She later sho-wed her patriotism and\\nkindness of heart by ministering to the soldiers\\nin her neighborhood, and when General Howe\\nMrs. David Bell, Judith Gary, like Mrs. John Adams,\\nwas a woman of decided and advanced opinions. When\\nthe Virginia Convention was passing laws for the govern-\\nment of the State, she spoke and wrote to her brother,\\nColonel Archibald Cary, and other leading members of the\\nConvention, in favor of abolishing primogeniture and of the\\ndisestablishment of the Church. This position Mrs. Bell\\nstoutly maintained, although she was an aristocrat by\\nbirth and association and a devout churchwoman.\\n23", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwas in possession of Philadelphia she sent a\\nquantity of linen, spun with her o wn hands, for\\nthe use of the American soldiers who had been\\ntaken prisoners at the battle of Germantown.\\nIn the loneliness and sorrow that came to\\nher in after years, Elizabeth Ferguson must\\noften have turned back in thought to the gold-\\nen days of her youth, when in London she\\nenjoyed the society of the most brilliant men\\nand women of the time, or in her father s\\nhouse gathered around her a circle of devoted\\nand admiring friends. When Dr. Benjamin\\nRush became one of the most eminent of\\nAmerican physicians and Francis Hopkinson\\ngained an enviable reputation as a writer and\\npolitical satirist, she could recall with pride\\nthe days w^hen these and many other noted\\nmen had surrounded her, deeming her conver-\\nsation one of their choicest pleasures, while\\nyoung Nathaniel Evans dedicated verses to her,\\nhis Laura, like another poet of an earlier time.\\nThe Philadelphia of Elizabeth Graeme s day\\nwas a suitable place in which to hold the first\\nAmerican salon of which there exists any rec-\\nord, as no other Colonial town contained so\\nlarge a number of literary and scientific men\\nas did this Quaker City.\\nIn addition to Dr. Franklin s ingenious\\nfriends, who assisted him in his scientific\\nexperiments, there was another circle in Phila-\\ndelphia which represented what may be looked\\nupon as the liberal education of that day,\\nchiefly composed of men of fortune and posi-\\n24", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Charles Willing\\nBy Robert Feke\\nPage 29", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntion who had enjoyed the advantages of early\\neducation and whose tastes were literary.\\nThis group included such men as Tench Fran-\\ncis, who is described as a bon vivant, a wit,\\nand a man of talent, Dr. William Shippen,\\nWilliam Allen, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania,\\nthe Rev. Richard Peters, Charles Willing, the\\nHamiltons, father and son, Dr. Thomas Cad-\\nwalader, and the Bond brothers, Thomas and\\nPhineas. Most of these men were classical\\nscholars; many of them had been educated\\nabroad.\\nPhiladelphia, despite an admixture of Scotch,\\nIrish, and German in its population, was more\\ndistinctly English in its characteristics than\\nany other Colonial city. With its two strongly\\ncontrasting elements, the English Quaker\\nand the English Churchman, it presented\\nsharper and more notable contrasts than ex-\\nisted elsewhere, because both of these ele-\\nments were represented in the government,\\nthe church party here acquiring power and ad-\\nvancement more rapidly than in Puritan Ne-w\\nEngland. Between these two parties little\\nlove was lost, and although no persecution for\\nconscience sake darkens the fair pages of the\\nhistory of the Province of Pennsylvania, some\\nacrimonious remarks are to be found in diaries\\nand letters of leading Friends upon the hot\\nchurch party, and the church party with its\\npacked vestry, while William Penn, in one of\\nhis letters to James Logan, speaks of two as\\ngaudy and costly Common Prayer Books as the\\n25", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nQueen has in her chapel and a fine commun-\\nion table, designed for Christ Church, both\\nof which, he says, charms the baby in the\\nBishop of London as well as Parson Evans.\\nThese remarks were returned with no less\\nacrimony by the church people, we may be\\nsure but however these two opposing fac-\\ntions may have differed upon questions of\\ngovernment or religion, they united in their\\ndesire to advance science and learning and to\\neducate the youth of Pennsylvania. Conse-\\nquently we find, appended to Dr. Franklin s\\nProposals for a college, the names of such\\neminent Friends as James Logan, an old man\\nin 1749, of Robert Strettell, a man of affairs\\nas well as a scholar who had taken a promi-\\nnent position in the much discussed question\\nof representation in the Assembly of the Prov-\\nince of those who were opposed to the bearing\\nof arms, and of Dr. Lloyd Zachery, side by side\\nwith the signatures of Tench Francis, William\\nAllen, Thomas White, father of the Bishop of\\nthe same name, John Inglis, Joseph Turner,\\nand other churchmen. Most of these gentle-\\nmen proved the catholicity of their spirits by\\ntaking a leading part in founding the City Danc-\\ning Assembly about the same time. The fact\\nthat men of learning and influence, many of\\nthem classical scholars, united with Franklin\\nin founding the College of Philadelphia seems\\nto answer the question asked more than once,\\nHow was it that the academy which Franklin\\nwas so active in establishing should have been\\n26", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfrom the first, to a great extent, a classical\\ninstitution, his own views having been in favor\\nof a more practical course Franklin himself\\nwrote that he submitted his views to some of\\nhis friends, who concurred with him, adding,\\nbut Mr. Allen, Mr. Francis, Mr. Peters, and\\nsome other persons of wealth and learning,\\nwhose subscriptions and countenance we\\nshould need, were of the opinion that it ought\\nto include the learned languages.\\nKnowing well that wealth and social in-\\nfluence would inevitably tip the balance when\\nplaced in the scales against even so good a\\ncounter opinion as his own, the shrewd\\nFranklin tactfully yielded to the more pow^er-\\nful claims of his colleagues.\\nMen of scholarly tastes and classical attain-\\nments were always to be found among Friends\\nfrom the days of Thomas Lloyd and James\\nLogan to later times, when Charles Thomson\\nhelped the students of the College of Phila-\\ndelphia to climb the rocky hill of learning\\ncontained between the covers of the Latin\\ngrammar, and John Dickinson penned his\\nlearned treatises upon liberal government.\\nIn addition to English scholars among\\nFriends and worldlings, Scotch learning was\\nrepresented by James Wilson, the distin-\\nguished advocate, who later impressed him-\\nself upon the Constitution of the United\\nStates, and by Mr. John Beveridge, who taught\\na grammar school in Edinburgh and in Hart-\\nford, Connecticut, before he was invited to\\n27", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nPhiladelphia to conduct a private Latin school\\nin that city. Mr. Beveridge, like Mr. James\\nDavid Dove, Thomas Makin, and other in-\\nstructors of youth, sometimes welcomed the\\nvisits of the Muse of Poetry. Another learned\\nScotchman was Dr. Francis Alison, vice-pro-\\nvost and rector of the Academy of Phila-\\ndelphia, a Presbyterian divine, upon w^hose\\npreaching John Adams occasionally attended,\\nat his church on High Street, at the corner\\nof Bank, sometimes called the Buttonwood\\nChurch, on account of the large trees of that\\nvariety surrounding it. John Adams seems to\\nhave been generously catholic in his church-\\ngoing, as he wrote to his wife of pleasant\\nexcursions into the Episcopal churches, where\\nhe confessed to hearing better prayers, better\\nspeaking, softer, sweeter music, and seeing\\ngenteeler company than elsewhere. Upon\\nanother occasion Mr. Adams spoke of stroll-\\ning into the mother church, or rather the\\ngrandmother church, as he filially denom-\\ninated the Romish Chapel of St. Joseph s,\\nstill standing among the high buildings and\\nnarrow^ streets of the business part of Phila-\\ndelphia.\\nIt is a significant fact that a city, which led\\nthe Colonies in literature, science, and phi-\\nlanthropy, should have possessed two such\\nprinters as Benjamin Franklin and William\\nBradford. Although these men were industri-\\nous and skilful craftsmen who were proud of\\ntheir honest calling, they both set out in life\\n28", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nto be much more than printers. Franklin s\\ntalents and avocations were so varied that\\nthey defy all attempt at classification, while\\nWilliam Bradford was a publisher as well as\\nprinter, a scholar, a discriminating lover of\\nliterature, and, like Franklin, an ardent patriot.\\nIn the Franklin family the printing trade does\\nnot seem to have been hereditary, while Brad-\\nford belonged to a family of printers and\\npublishers. His grandfather. Colonel William\\nBradford, was the first printer in the Middle\\nColonies, while his maternal great-grandfather\\nwas Andrew Sowle, an eminent printer and\\npublisher of London in the time of Charles the\\nFirst and during the Restoration.\\nStanding in the background of this life, as\\nbecame the well-bred woman of that day,\\nyet wielding an important influence in social\\nmatters, were such capable w^omen as Mrs.\\nThomas Hopkinson, whose letters give evi-\\ndence of superior mind and character, Mrs.\\nWilliam Plumsted, and Mrs. Joseph Shippen,\\nonce pretty Jane Galloway of Maryland, who\\nin a picturesque gown and gay hat has come\\ndow^n to this generation from the brush of\\nBenjamin West. Here, also, holding a promi-\\nnent place in the social life of Philadelphia as\\nwife of its Mayor, in days when that office\\nwas filled by gentlemen of position and stand-\\ning, was Mrs. Charles Willing. Mrs. Willing\\nwas a daughter of Joseph and Abigail Shippen,\\nand in 1731 became the wife of Charles Will-\\ning, who had emigrated to Philadelphia from\\n29", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nBristol, England. Mr. Willing filled the posi-\\ntion of mayor in 1748 and again in 1754, when\\nhe died of ship fever, contracted while in the\\ndischarge of his official duties. Charles Will-\\ning was universally respected and esteemed\\nas a public officer and as a merchant, being\\nassociated with his brother Thomas in one\\nof the leading mercantile houses of the day.\\nMr. Willing was one of the founders of the\\nCollege of Philadelphia and of the Dancing\\nAssembly, and we find Mrs. Willing spoken\\nof at one of the earlier meetings of this festive\\ncircle, in English fashion, as the Mayoress.\\nHer portrait by Robert Feke represents a hand-\\nsome young matron of much dignity and force\\nof character, arrayed, as became her position\\nin social life, in the fashion of the gay world\\nof her time, her rich brocade being w^orn over\\na high and somewhat exaggerated hoop.\\nMrs. Charles Willing, Mrs. Thomas Hop-\\nkinson, and Mrs. Joseph Shippen, like Mrs.\\nFerguson, belonged to the Church of England\\ncircle in Philadelphia, and doubtless were\\npresent at the literary lady s reunions. Un-\\nfortunately, Dr. Rush, in describing these\\nmeetings at Mrs. Ferguson s, was so wanting\\nin the reportorial spirit of a later day that he\\nfailed to give a full list of the names of those\\nwho assisted at this feast of reason and flow\\nof soul.\\nA charming girl w^ho must have entered into\\nthe enjoyment of Mrs. Ferguson s evenings\\nwith all the enthusiasm of youth and her own\\n30", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nexceptionally bright mind was Miss Sarah\\nEve, who was an intimate friend of the Rush\\nfamily. Like Elizabeth Ferguson, this young\\nlady kept a diary for the entertainment of her\\nfamily, especially for that of her father. Cap-\\ntain Oswald Eve, who, being a sea-captain,\\nwas away from home for months at a time.\\nBy some happy fortune. Miss Eve s spirited\\nchronicle of the small happenings and gossip\\nof the little circle in which she lived has been\\npreserved, to give to men and women of to-\\nday the color, atmosphere, and such fleeting\\nlights and shadows of that life as are only\\nto be gained from the pen-pictures of vivid\\nimpressionists. Although Miss Eve s parents\\nhad been married in Christ Church, and she\\nwas herself a regular attendant of the English\\nChurch, her visiting in Philadelphia seems to\\nhave been chiefly among the Quaker aristoc-\\nracy, and this despite the fact that her red\\nhair was always fashionably dressed and her\\nappearance very stately. In consequence,\\nprobably, of her stately appearance Miss Eve\\nw^as accused of being too proud but al-\\nthough so keenly alive to the humorous side\\nof life as to have been at times in danger of\\nmaking enemies, Sarah Eve seems to have\\nbeen singularly free from pride or vanity.\\nFrom her home, a country place situated\\nupon a wooded stream which fed a mill-dam\\nnear Fifth and Thompson Streets, Miss Eve\\nmade many pleasant excursions to Rocky\\nPoint, Mr. Thomas Clifford s country-seat on\\n31", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe Delaware, and to the Guests place on\\nthe New Jersey side of the river. Miss Anna\\nClifford and Betsey and Amelia Guest were\\nSarah Eve s most intimate friends and in her\\ndiary she tells of visits to them in their Phila-\\ndelphia homes, as well as to Betsy Rush,\\nTaby Fisher, Deby Mitchell, and Amy Horner,\\noften remaining overnight, unexpectedly, in\\ntrue girl fashion.\\nMiss Eve sometimes illustrated her remarks\\nwith quotations from the books that she had\\nbeen reading, which included The Fashion-\\nable Lover, a prodigious fine comedy -wrote\\nby Cumberland, the poems of Thomas God-\\nfrey, an early Philadelphia poet, and The\\nAdventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.\\nThe latter work, she finds herself in an ex-\\ncellent humor to enjoy, lying in a fine soft bed,\\nwhile Miss Bets (Betsy Rush) is sitting up\\nin the parlor with her lover, Captain Bethel.\\nReading this young girl s chronicle of the\\nlife of her day, the people whom she met,\\nand her own clever, pungent observations upon\\nboth, we fail to wonder that Benjamin Rush\\nlost his heart to the fair chronicler. Through\\nthe simple record of daily happenings, the\\njunketings and the visits, the arrival in the\\nProvince of Governor John Penn, and, evi-\\ndently no less important to Miss Eve, that of\\nMrs. Smith s new baby, there runs the fine\\nthread of a love-story. Wherever Miss Eve\\nwas drinking tea. Dr. Rush seems to have\\nhappened in, either to enjoy the sociable meal\\n32", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Adams (Sarah Eve)\\nBy Saint Memin\\n-ja\u00c2\u00ab-iS22?;\\nColonel William Kradfiml\\nPage 28", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwith the gay little circle, or later in the evening\\nfor a chat, or a moonlight stroll with the young\\nladies to the Mineral Spring at Sixth and\\nChestnut Streets.\\nOnce, when Miss Eve and her mother had\\nbeen ill for several days, Dr. Rush called upon\\nthem and expressed surprise and regret that\\nhe had not been informed of the state of affairs.\\nBeing aware of the good Doctor s propensity\\nfor bleeding upon all occasions, we are con-\\nscious of a feeling of relief that he did not ap-\\npear upon the scene until the cases required no\\nmore severe treatment than for mama some\\npowders and me some elixir, which we think,\\nsays Miss Eve, have been of service to both.\\nAre we not blest with the best of friends\\nThe romance of these two brilliant young\\npeople w^as not destined to reach the climax of\\na happy marriage, as Sarah Eve died in De-\\ncember, 1774, just three weeks before the date\\nnamed for her wedding.* In a sketch entitled\\nAmong St. Memin s portraits is one of Sarah Eve.\\nThe quaint, charming little face does not, hovrever, repre-\\nsent the diarist, Sarah Eve, of the last century, but a niece\\nwho was named after her. This Miss Eve was born in\\nor near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1783, and, oddly\\nenough, married an Irish gentleman named Adams. While\\ntravelling abroad with his wife, Mr. Adams died. On her\\nreturn voyage, during the War of 18 12, the American ship\\nin which Mrs. Adams had sailed was taken by the British\\nand she was carried to Halifax as a prisoner of war. Mrs.\\nAdams was, of course, released, and after a tedious jour-\\nney was restored to her father, who was then living in\\nGeorgia.\\n3 33", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nA Female Character, which appeared in\\nthe Pennsylvania Packet a few days later, Dr.\\nRush paid a glowing tribute to the lovely and\\nnoble character of his fiancee, whom he classed\\namong the first order of beings.\\nDr. Rush was fortunate in having numbered\\namong his intimate friends two of the first\\norder of beings, Elizabeth Ferguson and Sa-\\nrah Eve but alas for the constancy of man\\nhe soon discovered a third being of this\\nsuperlative order in the person of Miss Julia\\nStockton, of New Jersey, whom he married\\ntwo years after the death of Miss Eve.\\n34", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCHAPTER II. REPUBLICAN DRAWING-\\nROOMS\\nIN New York the social etiquette of the first\\nadministration, as well as much of the\\npolicy of the new government, was out-\\nlined. A small matter, it may seem to us\\nto-day, to know how the President and Mrs.\\nW^ashington were to receive their guests, and\\nwhether they were expected to make calls\\nupon the families of cabinet members and\\nstrangers, or only to receive at stated times\\nwhen called upon. Yet these questions were\\nof moment, and it \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was with an earnest de-\\nsire to conduct his life in accordance with his\\nhigh position that the President propounded\\nthe following questions to the Vice-President,\\nMr. Adams, to Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and\\nMr. Madison\\nWhether, after a little time, one day in\\nevery v^reek w^ill not be sufficient for receiving\\nvisits of compliment\\nWhether, w^hen it shall have been under-\\nstood that the President is not to give enter-\\ntainments in the manner the presidents of\\nCongress have formerly done, it will be prac-\\ntical to draw such a line of discrimination, in\\nregard to persons, as that six, eight, or ten\\nofficial characters, including in rotation the\\nmembers of both houses of Congress, may be\\n35", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ninvited, personally or otherwise, to dine with\\nhim on the days fixed for receiving company,\\nwithout exciting clamors in the rest of the\\ncommunity\\nWhether it would be satisfactory to the\\npublic for the President to make about four\\ngreat entertainments in a year, on such great\\noccasions as the Anniversary of the Dec-\\nlaration of Independence, the Alliance with\\nFrance, the Peace with Great Britain, the\\nOrganization of the General Government;\\nand whether arrangements of these two last\\nkinds could be in danger of diverting too\\nmuch of the President s time from business,\\nor of producing the evils which it ^vas in-\\ntended to avoid by his living more recluse\\nthan the presidents of Congress have hitherto\\nlived\\nW^hether there would be any impropriety\\nin the President s making informal visits that\\nis to say, in his calling upon his acquaintances\\nor public characters for the purpose of socia-\\nbility or civility And what, as to the form of\\ndoing it, might evince these visits to have been\\nmade in his private character, so as that they\\nmay not be construed into visits from the\\nPresident of the United States And in what\\nlight would his visits rarely at tea-parties be\\nconsidered\\nTo these questions Mr. Adams replied with\\nall seriousness, that no visits of ceremony\\nwere to be required of the President and his\\nwife, nor were large entertainments to be ex-\\n36", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\npected of them. Certain days and hours were\\nto be set apart for the reception of visitors.\\nThese receptions, Mr. Adams thought, should\\nbe conducted with some form and ceremony,\\napplication to be made through the Minister\\nof State, and in every case the name, quality,\\nor business of the visitor to be communicated\\nto the chamberlain or gentlemen in waiting,\\nwho should judge whom to admit and whom\\nto exclude.\\nMr. Hamilton quite agreed with the Vice-\\nPresident; but to some Republican ears these\\nregulations savored of the audience chamber\\nof a monarch. Mr. Jefferson gave it as his\\nopinion that the glare of royalty and nobility,\\nduring his mission to England, had made him\\n[Mr. Adams] believe their fascination a neces-\\nsary ingredient in government, while William\\nMaclay, United States Senator from Pennsyl-\\nvania, declared himself boldly against all the\\ndevices of this son of Adam. Mr. Maclay,\\nwho w^as as strongly Republican in his view^s as\\nMr. Jefferson, and was always on the lookout\\nfor stumbling-blocks and rocks of offence from\\nthe Federalists, wrote in his diary at this\\ntime\\nI entertain no doubt that many people are\\naiming with all their force to establish a splen-\\ndid court with all the pomp of majesty. Alas\\npoor Washington, if you are taken in this\\nsnare Then will the gold become dim Then\\nwill the fine gold be changed Then will your\\nglory fade Again, when a motion for ad-\\n37", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\njournment carried, in order to allow the sen-\\nators to attend the President s levee, Mr. Ma-\\nclay wrote with a pen dipped in gall Levees\\nmay be extremely useful in old countries\\nwhere men of great fortunes are collected, as\\nit may keep the idle from being much worse\\nemployed. But here I think they are hurtful.\\nThey interfere with the business of the public,\\nand, instead of employing only the idle, have\\na tendency to make men idle who should be\\nbetter employed. Indeed, from these small\\nbeginnings I fear we shall follow on nor cease\\ntill we have reached the summit of court eti-\\nquette, and all the frivolities, fopperies and\\nexpense practiced in European governments.\\nI grieve to think that many individuals among\\nus are aiming at these objects with unceasing\\ndiligence.\\nDespite these and other strictures upon the\\nsocial etiquette of this administration, we can-\\nnot fail to look upon it as a fortunate circum-\\nstance that the President and some of his\\nadvisers were not of Mr. Jefferson s and Mr.\\nMaclay s way of thinking. Washington, with\\nrare wisdom and foresight, said with regard to\\nsocial usages about to be inaugurated Many\\nthings, which appear of little importance in\\nthemselves and at the beginning, may have\\ngreat and durable consequences from their\\nhaving been established at the commence-\\nment of a new general government. It will\\nbe much easier to commence the adminis-\\ntration upon a well-adjusted system, built on\\n38", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntenable grounds, than to correct errors, or alter\\ninconveniences, after they shall have been con-\\nfirmed by habit.\\nMr. Hamilton and Mr. Adams were both of\\nthe opinion that a certain amount of form and\\nceremony added to the dignity of a republican\\ngovernment as well as to that of a monarchy,\\nin addition to which the stated days and hours\\nfor receiving guests prevented the President\\nand Mrs. Washington from being intruded\\nupon at inopportune times. The President\\nwas especially desirous that the ceremonial\\nof the receiving of visits should be arranged,\\nas he realized soon after his inauguration that\\nhe was no longer master of himself or of his\\nhome. By the time I had done breakfast,\\nhe wrote, and thence till dinner, and after-\\nwards till bed-time, I could not get rid of the\\nceremony of one visit before I had to attend\\nto another. In a word, I had no leisure to\\nread or to answer the dispatches that were\\npouring in upon me from all quarters.\\nThe question of tea-drinkings Mr. Adams\\nanswered summarily by saying that the Presi-\\ndent had a right to attend festivities of this\\nnature whenever and wherever he chose, such\\ninvitations being accepted by him as a private\\ncitizen.\\nMr. Maclay s jeremiads upon the vanity of\\nthe world in which he w^as dwelling, where\\nnothing was valued or regarded but the\\nqualifications that flow from the tailor, barber,\\nor dancing master, are amusing enough when\\n39", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ncontrasted with the dignified simpHcity of the\\nPresident s much criticized Tuesday afternoon\\nlevees. Each guest was introduced by one\\nof the secretaries, Mr. Tobias Lear or Major\\nWilliam Jackson. After the introductions\\nwere completed, the President passed along\\nthe line of guests, calling each one by name\\nand saying a few words to each in turn. No\\nrefreshments \u00e2\u0096\u00a0were served.\\nMrs. Washington held her drawing-room\\non Friday evenings, and although these func-\\ntions were not lacking in dignity, they were\\nprobably a little less splendid than would\\nappear from Mr. Huntington s picture of the\\nRepublican Court. Mrs. Washington, who\\nwas eminently domestic, seems to have pos-\\nsessed the power of giving a homelike charm\\nto all that she did, whether it v^^as to make a\\ncup of tea at her own table for Mr. Wansey,\\nor to receive in her drawing-room the guests\\nof the nation. The descriptions that have\\ncome down to us of the Friday evening re-\\nceptions at the Presidential mansion, with\\ntheir tea, plum cake, and early hours for\\nmeeting and retiring, suggest no social usages\\nthat could by their artificiality or splendor\\nendanger republican institutions. Great balls\\nwere given during the first administration, by\\nthe Comte de Moustier and others, but none\\nseem to have been given by the President.\\nFor the arduous task that lay before him,\\nthe President associated -with him the best\\nelement that the country afforded in birth,\\n40", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Lady Catherine Duer\\nPage 64\\nGovernor William King\\nPage 45", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nbreeding, and scholarship, as well as in char-\\nacter and statecraft. It was less difficult then\\nthan to-day to bring to the service of the\\nnation the best talent of the land. The regu-\\nlar business of many prosperous individuals\\nhad been unsettled by the long war, and\\nfurthermore, be it said to their honor, men of\\nability were content to forego the more rapid\\nbuilding up of fortunes for the sake of giving\\ntheir time and talents to the support of a\\nnational life that had been bought with a\\nprice. Nor can the emoluments of office\\nbe looked upon as weighing heavily in the\\nbalance against private interests, when Jeffer-\\nson s compensation for his services as Secre-\\ntary of State was thirty-five hundred dollars,\\nwhile his associate cabinet officers received\\nonly three thousand dollars. Upon this mod-\\nest sum these gentlemen and their families\\nwere expected to make a good appearance,\\nentertain strangers, and live in a style suited\\nto their position in a city, where living w^as\\nnaturally more expensive from the fact that\\nCongress had established itself there. Every-\\nthing, however, depends upon the point of\\nview and when twenty thousand dollars was\\nproposed for the President and eight thousand\\ndollars for the Vice-President, Mr. Maclay,\\nwith withering sarcasm, proposed to reverse\\nthe old proverb and make it read, Be no ser-\\nvice but salary, feeling that such princely\\nincomes would lead to extravagance and pos-\\nsibly to office-seeking.\\n41", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nBefore accepting the position of Auditor of\\nthe Treasury, offered him in the new govern-\\nment, Mr. Wolcott wrote to Mr. Oliver Ells-\\nworth to ascertain something with regard to\\nthe expense of living in New York, that he\\nmight decide v^rhether the modest sum of\\nfifteen hundred dollars would enable him to\\nsustain such an outward appearance as he\\ndeemed suitable for an official of his position\\nin the administration. On learning that a\\nhouse and stable could be had for two hun-\\ndred dollars and the best wood for four dollars\\na cord, he concluded that, despite the fact that\\nmarketing \\\\A^as twenty-five per cent, above the\\nHartford rates, it would be safe to make the\\nexperiment. In writing to his wife upon this\\nsubject Mr. Wolcott said I am confident\\nthat no change in our habits of living will in\\nany degree be necessary. The example of the\\nPresident and his family will render parade\\nand expense improper and disreputable.\\nIt is needless to say that Mr. Wolcott s ex-\\npectations with regard to the moderation of\\nthe President s household were not disap-\\npointed. Extravagance and luxury were never\\nencouraged by the President or Mrs. Wash-\\nington, and even if Mr. Maclay found their\\ndinners the best that he had ever eaten, he\\nnever once speaks of them as too elaborate.\\nIt is pleasant to know that this very critical\\nSenator had, at that time, no fault to find \\\\vith\\nthis first Character in the world, or with\\nhis amiable lady.\\n43", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMost of those who held positions in the new\\ngovernment had already served the Colonies\\nby their counsel, their statecraft and their\\ndiplomacy, such men as John Adams, the\\nVice-President; John Jay, Chief Justice of the\\nSupreme Court Alexander Hamilton, Secre-\\ntary of the Treasury his great colleague in\\nFederalism, James Madison and their brilliant\\nopponent, Thomas Jefferson, who had re-\\nturned from his mission in France in time to\\naccept the most important portfolio in the new-\\ncabinet. No less distinguished were Edmund\\nRandolph, first Attorney-General of the United\\nStates; Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the\\nState of New York, who had just administered\\nthe oath of office to the President at the City\\nHall; James Iredell, of North Carolina, who\\nhad forfeited a large fortune in the West\\nIndies in order to serve the patriot cause, and\\nwas, in 1790, appointed by the President, As-\\nsociate Judge of the Supreme Court of the\\nUnited States Charles Carroll of Carrollton,\\nUnited States Senator from Maryland Wil-\\nliam Bradford, Attorney-General of Pennsyl-\\nvania, and later of the United States; Robert\\nMorris, and Benjamin Huntington, of Con-\\nnecticut, grandfather of the artist, Daniel\\nHuntington, whose brush has perpetuated the\\nfaces and figures of this illustrious group for\\nfuture generations.\\nMr. Maclay has left an amusing pen-picture\\nof three of the cabinet officers as they ap-\\npeared at a dinner given by the Pennsylvania\\n43", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndelegation Hamilton, he says, has a very\\nboyish, giddy manner, and Scotch-Irish people\\nwould call him a skite. Jefferson trans-\\ngresses on the extreme of stiff gentility or lofty\\ngravity. Knox is the easiest man, and has\\nthe most dignity of presence. They retired\\nat a decent time, one after another. Knox\\nstayed the longest, as indeed suited his aspect\\nbest, being more of a Bacchanalian figure.\\nOne of the younger statesmen in the Con-\\ngress of the first administration was Rufus\\nKing, from Maine, who had served in the\\nCongress of 1785, and there, at the age of\\nthirty, had introduced a resolution which was\\nlater adopted in the ordinance of 1787 for\\nthe government of the Northwestern Terri-\\ntory. Mr. King s resolution was\\nThat there should be neither slavery nor\\ninvoluntary servitude in any of the states\\ndescribed in the resolution of Congress in\\nApril, 1784, otherwise than in punishment\\nof crime whereof the party shall have been\\npersonally guilty and that this regulation\\nshall be made an article of compact, and\\nremain a fundamental principle of the Consti-\\ntution between the original states and each\\nof the states named in the said resolve.\\nMr. King married Mary Alsop, daughter of\\nJohn Alsop, member of the Continental Con-\\ngress from his o^vn State. This marriage took\\nplace while the Congress was in session in\\nNew York. John Adams, who was abroad\\nat the time, wrote to congratulate the groom,\\n44", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand at the same time very cleverly announced\\nthe marriage of his own daughter, by saying\\nthat he takes especial interest in Mr. King s\\nmarriage to Miss Alsop, of New York, and\\nMr. Gerry s recent marriage, because A good\\nwork of the same kind, for connecting Massa-\\nchusetts and New York in the bonds of love,\\nwas going on here. Last Sunday, under the\\nright reverend sanction of the Archbishop of\\nCanterbury and the Bishop of St. Asaph, were\\nmarried Mr. Smith and Miss Adams.* It will\\nbe unnatural if federal purposes are not an-\\nswered by these marriages.\\nMrs. Rufus King is described as charming,\\ncultivated, and possessed of great personal\\nbeauty.\\nWilliam King, a brother of Rufus King, took\\nan active part in the separation of Maine and\\nMassachusetts, and was subsequently elected\\nthe first Governor of Maine. At the conclu-\\nsion of his term of office. Governor King was\\nappointed Commissioner for the adjustment\\nof Spanish Claims.\\nSide by side with statesmen and diploma-\\ntists were such gallant soldiers as General\\nHenry Knox, who occupied the position of\\nSecretary of War, which bureau, during this\\nand the following administration, included\\nnaval matters General Philip Schuyler, now\\nColonel William S. Smith, of Jamaica, Long Island,\\nwas appointed Secretary of Legation, and while in Eng-\\nland married Abigail Adams. Charles Adams married\\nSally Smith, a sister of Colonel William S. Smith.\\n45", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nSenator from New York Charles Cotesworth\\nPinckney, from South Carolina, who is better\\nknown as a statesman than as a soldier, and\\nwho, during a mission abroad, upon -which he\\nentered a little later, formulated the truly\\nAmerican maxim, Millions for defence, but\\nnot a cent for tribute General Philemon\\nDickinson, United States Senator from New\\nJersey, and his brother-in-law, Samuel Mere-\\ndith, who had fought at Princeton, Brandy-\\nwine, and Germantown, and now served his old\\ncommander as first Treasurer of the United\\nStates. Mr. Meredith held this position for\\nmore than twelve years, and is said to have\\npaid into the Treasury its first deposit, a loan\\nfrom himself to the government of twenty\\nthousand dollars. The gallant and intrepid\\nPennsylvania soldier, Anthony Wayne, has\\nbeen appointed by his former comrade-in-arms\\nGeneral-in-Chief of the United States Army.\\nAs there is still trouble in the Northwest,\\nwhere certain Indian tribes are making a\\nstand for Great Britain, Wayne finds little\\ntime for councils of state and still less for\\nplaying carpet knight in ladies drawing-\\nrooms, handsome as he is, and fond as he\\nmay be of fine uniforms on dress parade.\\nA distinguished circle was this, which was\\nassembled around Mrs. Washington, the most\\ndistinguished that had ever been gathered\\ntogether in the New World, and one rarely\\nif ever equalled in later times, for here\\nwere men and women who had learned their\\n46", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nlessons of patriotism in the school of danger\\nand adversity. Many of the wives and daugh-\\nters of men who had come from other States\\nto fill positions in the national government\\nwere with their husbands and fathers, while\\nall the w^omen belonging to representative New\\nYork families were present at the Tuesday\\nevening receptions. During the early months\\nof the administration, the Washingtons lived\\nin the house of Walter Franklin on Cherry\\nStreet, at that time owned by his widow, who\\nhad married Mr. Samuel Osgood. This was\\na substantial square building with five windows\\nfacing on the Cherry Street front, and the same\\nnumber on Franklin Square. To this house,\\ntradition says, the President w^alked from the\\nfoot of Wall Street, after the inauguration,\\namid the joyful shouts of the assembled mul-\\ntitude. The Pennsylvania representatives,\\nGeorge Clymer and Thomas Fitzsimons, were\\nquite near the President s on Pearl Street.\\nAnother Pennsylvania statesman. Senator\\nMaclay, was nursing his rheumatic knee that\\ngave him so much trouble, and the bitter prej-\\nudices that caused him even more uneasiness,\\nat Mr. Vandolsom s near the Bear Market,\\naccording to the Register for 1789, which\\nalso states that Mr. Henry Wynkoop was at\\nthe same house, while Colonel Jeremiah Van\\nRensselaer was at Mr. Strong s, near the\\nAlbany Pier. Mr. Oliver Wolcott wrote his\\nfather that he was comfortably lodged at Mrs.\\nGrinnell s, No. 27 Queen Street, where he says\\n47", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthat he procured lodgings in a good family.\\nAlthough Mr. Jefferson later had an establish-\\nment on Broadway, he wrote to his son-in-law\\nthat he was glad to secure a small house on\\nMaiden Lane. This street with its quaint\\nname ran down to the Vly (or Vlye) Market,\\nnear which once stood the alluring Bunch of\\nGrapes tavern, where food was provided, not\\nonly for man and beast, but for mind and\\nbody, as here the Three R s were taught in\\na commodious room and youth fitted for the\\ncounting-house. Near the President s home\\non Pearl, or Queen Street, was the Friends\\nMeeting, as this was the aristocratic Quaker\\ndistrict of old New York. The Franklins,\\nwhose house the President occupied, were\\nleading Friends. Here, says Mr. Griswold,\\nv/ere the Pearsalls, the Pryors, the Embrees,\\nthe Effinghams, the Hickses, the Hawxhursts,\\nthe Halletts, the Havilands, the Cornells, the\\nKenyons, the Townsends, the Tituses, the\\nW^illetts, the Wrights, etc. Interspersed, how-\\never, with these residences were others, equal-\\nly substantial, though not as plain, such as\\nthose of the Waltons and Roosevelts. The\\nBank of New York was first kept in the large\\nWalton House, and its first President, the\\nelder Isaac Roosevelt, had his dwelling nearly\\nopposite.\\nColonel Theodoric Bland, James Madison,\\nJohn Page, and other Virginians gave evidence\\nof their proverbial clannishness by living in the\\nsame street, Maiden Lane. The Nestors of\\n48", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Colonel Jeremiali Wadsworth\\nBy James Sharpies", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe administration, Colonel Jeremiah Wads-\\nworth, who had filled with honor during the\\nwar the important position of Commissary\\nGeneral to the Continental Army, and Jona-\\nthan Trumbull, the brave old war Governor of\\nConnecticut, the original Brother Jonathan,\\nwere both living at 195 Water Street. Mr.\\nHamilton s residence w^as at the corner of\\nBroad and Wall Streets, and the following\\nyear Mr. and Mrs. Osgood returned to their\\nown home on Cherry Street, and the President\\noccupied Mr. Macomb s house on Broadway\\nthe Secretaries of State and of War were\\nthen living quite near on the same street. Sir\\nJohn Temple, British Consul General for the\\nEastern States, was established on the other\\nside of Broadway, on Cortlandt Street, while\\nTheodore Sedgwick and Fisher Ames were\\nthankful to find an abiding-place at Mrs. Duns-\\ncomb s fashionable bachelors boarding-house.\\nThe Reverend Manasseh Cutler, while in\\nNew York, dined with the Temples, and found\\nmuch to admire in them and in their elegant\\nestablishment. It being Sunday, the dinner\\nhour was two o clock, and even without the\\nmellow glow of wax candles, Mr. Cutler\\nconfessed that the brilliancy of the liveries\\nand service was only exceeded by the beauty\\nof the hostess, who was, he says, The\\ngreatest beauty, notwithstanding her age, I\\never saw. To a well-proportioned form, a\\nperfectly fine skin, and completely adjusted\\nfeatures, is added a soft, but majestic air, an\\n4 49", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\neasy and pleasing sociability, a vein of fine\\nsense which commands admiration and infuses\\ndelight. Her smiles, for she rarely laughs,\\ncould not fail of producing the softest sensi-\\nbility in the fiercest savage. Her dress is ex-\\nceedingly neat and becoming, but not gay.\\nShe is now a grandmother, but I should not\\nsuppose her more than 22: her real age is 44.\\nSir John, Mr. Cutler pronounced a Com-\\nplete Gentleman, and his wines superlative\\nin quality, nothing pleasing him more than to\\nhear his Madeira praised and to have his\\nguests frequently beg for the honor of a glass\\nwith him.\\nThe small daughter of the house, Augusta,\\naged six, the New England parson found even\\nmore remarkable than her mother, her man-\\nners being, according to his description, those\\nof a complete woman of society. She in-\\ntroduces herself, says Mr. Cutler, with an\\neasy politeness to every person in the com-\\npany, and is never at a loss for a subject of\\nconversation, and so sensible and pertinent\\nare all her observations and remarks that she\\nnever fails of pleasing.\\nShe distinguishes characters in paying her\\nattentions with a judgment and precision\\nwhich w^ould do honor to mature age.\\nNo lady is more complete mistress of all\\nthe little etiquette which adorns a finished\\neducation.\\nIt is to be hoped that Mr. Cutler somewhat\\nexaggerated the attainments of this very\\nSO", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nyoung lady, as his picture suggests an infant\\nphenomenon, rather than the intelligent and\\nwell-bred child that little Miss Temple doubt-\\nless was. It is gratifying to learn from family\\nrecords that, despite this wisdom beyond her\\nyears, Augusta Temple lived to reach matu-\\nrity. She became the wife of William Pal-\\nmer, of Boston, and the grandmother of the\\nlate Rufus Prime, of New York.\\nLady Temple, who was a daughter of Gover-\\nnor Bowdoin, of Massachusetts, married John\\nTemple in 1767, many years before he in-\\nherited his title, which came to him in a rather\\nroundabout fashion through his great-grand-\\nfather, the Reverend Thomas Temple, LL.D.,\\nRector of Burton-in-the-Water, Gloucester\\nCounty, England, who -v^^as the devisee of his\\ncousin. Sir Thomas Temple, Governor of\\nNova Scotia. The circumstances of Sir John\\nTemple s birth and residence seem to accord\\nwith the description given of Mr. Henry\\nJames, the novelist, an English gentleman\\nwho happened to be born in America, as\\nJohn Temple was born near Boston, of Eng-\\nlish parents, was Lieutenant-Governor of New\\nHampshire under the Crown, and later repre-\\nsented England as Consul-General for the\\nEastern States. Sir John Temple died in New\\nYork in 1798, and was succeeded by his son\\nGrenville, tenth baronet, who married Eliza-\\nbeth, daughter of Colonel George Watson, of\\nBoston. Charming portraits of Lady Temple\\nin her youth and in her \\\\vidowhood are in\\nSI", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\npossession of her descendants, the first by\\nCopley and the last by Stuart. Lady Temple s\\nportrait by Gilbert Stuart was painted when\\nshe was in London in 1806, and as a pendant\\nto this picture Stuart made a copy from Cop-\\nley s portrait of Sir John Temple as appears\\nfrom a letter written by Mrs. Thomas Win-\\nthrop, ^vho was abroad with her mother at\\nthe time that the portraits were painted. John\\nTrumbull also painted a family group, con-\\nsisting of Sir John and Lady Temple, with\\nGrenville Temple and the infant Augusta.\\nMr. Huntington has in his famous painting\\nof the Republican Court made the McComb\\nhome on Broadway the background of his\\npicture. This w^as a much more commodious\\nhouse, to which the President and his family\\nremoved in the spring of 1790. Mrs. Wash-\\nington, although most dignified in her bearing\\nand manners, v/as of small stature, and Mr.\\nHuntington, whether true to life or simply to\\nhis own artistic instincts, has made the small\\nhostess appear as if standing upon a slight\\nelevation above most of her guests. Some of\\nher particular friends are near her, among\\nthese Mrs. Robert Morris, who is spoken of\\nby a diarist of the time as the second female\\nfigure at court. The two Custis children\\nstand near their grandmother, Nellie, a beau-\\ntiful girl of twelve, and her younger brother,\\nGeorge Washington Parke Custis, both far too\\nyoung to have been present at a formal draw-\\ning-room, except for the purpose of having\\n52", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Lady Temple\\n(Elizabeth Bowdoin)\\n3y Joliii Singleton Copley", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntheir portraits painted. The President did not\\nusually stand beside his wife on these occa-\\nsions, as he considered himself a private citizen\\nwhen at Mrs. Washington s receptions, and\\nmoved from group to group. Dignified ma-\\ntrons and youthful beauties from North and\\nSouth gathered around the hostess of the na-\\ntion, while no less charming were those who\\nwere here upon their native heath, such\\nwomen as Mrs. John Jay, Lady Kitty Duer,\\nMrs. Ralph Izard, who, although she be-\\nlonged to a loyalist family, was the wife of the\\npatriotic Senator from South Carolina, Mrs.\\nJames Beekman, Mrs. GeorgeClinton, Mrs. Rob-\\nert R. Livingston, Mrs. Walter Livingston, Mrs.\\nJohn Bayard, and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton,\\nwho, as Miss Betsey Schuyler, had been w^ooed\\nand won by Washington s young aide-de-camp\\nduring the Morristown encampment, ten years\\nbefore. Mrs. Hamilton, as the -wife of a cabi-\\nnet officer and the daughter of an old New York\\nfamily, also had her days for receiving. Her\\ndrawing-room is described as one of the most\\nbrilliant of the time, her mother and sisters\\noften assisting her. Mrs. Church, Mrs. Ham-\\nilton s eldest sister Angelica, had recently re-\\nturned from abroad, bringing w^ith her the\\nlatest fashions, among them \\\\vhat Walter\\nRutherfurd called a late abominable fashion\\nfrom London, of Ladies like Washwomen\\nwith their sleeves above their elbows. M.\\nde Warville, who met Mrs. Hamilton, spoke\\nof her as a charming woman, v/ho joined to\\nS3", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nall the graces the simplicity of an American\\nwife. It was this same observing traveller\\nw^ho, when he found Alexander Hamilton\\nvi^orking until a late hour over his law cases,\\nexpressed his astonishment that a man who\\nhad made a fortune for a nation should be\\nlaboring all night to support a family. Ham-\\nilton s brilliant, intellectual face was often\\nto be seen at the President s table, as a\\nwarm friendship existed between the grave\\nVirginian and his gay, versatile young Secre-\\ntary, who was yet capable of solving such\\nserious problems for the nation. ^A( ashing-\\nton probably knew Hamilton s faults as well\\nas anyone but, with his own strict ideas of\\nlife and duty, he was capable of looking be-\\nyond them and seeing what was great and\\ngood in his character. The complex, contra-\\ndictory nature of Hamilton seems never to\\nhave been fully understood but we may be-\\nlieve that the best part of his character, as\\nv^ell as his genius, was known and valued by\\nthe Chief, who loved him.\\nMrs. Hamilton, lovely in old age as in her\\nyouth, is described as having a delicate face,\\nfull of character. Her fine eyes, which were\\nvery dark, held the life and energy of the\\nrestrained countenance. Mrs. Hamilton may\\nnot have been as handsome as her mother, but\\nshe was equally brave and high-spirited. Mrs.\\nPhilip Schuyler s daughters all seem to have\\ninherited their mother s courage, which was\\noften put to the severest test during the\\n54", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwar. Her daughter Margaret, who now bears\\nher mother s maiden name, having married\\nStephen Van Rensselaer, was a girl of about\\nthirteen when the Schuyler home, near Albany,\\nwas attacked by a party of Indians, Canadians,\\nand French under John Walter Meyer. The\\nGeneral, his w^ife and children, had gained an\\nupper room, from whose w^indow^ he fired to\\nalarm the town and the sleeping guard, when\\nMrs. Schuyler suddenly discovered that the\\nyoungest child had been left in her cradle on\\nthe first floor. General Schuyler would not\\nallo w his wife to risk her life by going dow^n to\\nrescue the child; but Margaret, quicker than\\nthought, flew down two flights of stairs,\\nsnatched her little sister from the cradle, and\\nwas running upstairs with the baby in her\\narms when an Indian hurled a tomahawk at\\nher. The young girl s dress was cut, and the\\nweapon passed within a few^ inches of the\\ninfant s head and lodged in the railing of the\\nstairs. Meyer saw the girl running upstairs\\nwith a child in her arms, and, taking her for\\nthe nurse, called out, Wench, wench, where\\nis your master Gone to alarm the town,\\nwas the clever reply and in another moment\\nMargaret had gained the upper room and laid\\nthe baby in her mother s arms, while Meyer\\nand the marauders misled by Margaret s\\nansw^er and by the voice of the General calling\\nfrom the window, as if speaking to a large\\nparty of men, Come in, my brave fellows\\nSurround the house Seize the villains who\\n55", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nare plundering suddenly and precipitately\\nretreated with a large amount of plate, which\\nthey had found in the dining-room. The baby\\nthus bravely rescued was Catherine Schuyler,\\nwho afterwards married Major Cochran.\\nOther women, as heroic as Mrs. Schuyler\\nand her daughter, had shared with their\\nhusbands and fathers the dangers and the\\nexcitements of camp life and now^, in her\\now^n drawing-room, Mrs. Washington rene^ved\\nfriendships formed in days of trial and sus-\\npense. Chief among her army friends were\\nMrs. Knox and Mrs. Greene. Little Mrs.\\nSmith, John Adams s daughter, wrote to her\\nmother of dining with the General and Mrs.\\nKnox, and finding the former not half so fat as\\nhe had been and the latter much improved in\\nher appearance. This improvement must have\\ntaken place after Mr. Cutler met Mrs. Knox,\\nas he described her and her costume in terms\\nfar less flattering than those of Mrs. Smith.\\nDined with General Knox, wrote the New\\nEngland parson, who seems to have been a\\ngreat diner out; Introduced to his lady and a\\nFrench nobleman, the Marquis Lotbiniere,\\nat dinner, to several other gentlemen, w^ho\\ndined with us. Our dinner was served in high\\nstyle much in the French taste. Mrs. Knox\\nis very gross, but her manners easy and grace-\\nful. She is sociable and would be very agree-\\nable, were it not for her affected singularity\\nin dressing her hair. She seems to mimic a\\nmilitary style, which to me is disgusting in a\\n56", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfemale. Her hair in front is craped at least a\\nfoot high, much in the form of a churn bottom\\nupward, and topped off with a wire skeleton in\\nthe same form covered with black gauze, w^hich\\nhangs in streamers down to her back. The\\nhair behind is in a large braid, turned up, and\\nconfined with a monstrous large crooked comb.\\nShe reminded me of the monstrous cap worn\\nby the Marquis La Fayette s valet, commonly\\ncalled, on this account, the Marquis Devil.\\nThis seems a cruel description of good Mrs.\\nKnox, who w^as the soul of kindness, and was\\nalways the beloved Lucy of her faithful\\nHarry, even if she chose to disfigure her\\nhead with an unsightly pyramid.\\nMrs. Nathaniel Greene, no longer the gay\\nyoung matron who danced upwards of three\\nhours w^ith General Washington without once\\nsitting dow^n, but a w^oman saddened by a\\ncrushing sorrow and three years of widow-\\nhood, was a frequent visitor at the President s\\nhome. During his Southern tour Washing-\\nton recorded in his diary, that on his way to\\nAugusta he stopped to dine with the widow\\nof his old friend and companion in arms.\\nGeneral Greene, at her seat called Mulberry\\nGrove; while in his New York diary the\\nPresident often spoke of having Mrs. Greene,\\nMrs. Knox, and Mrs. Montgomery to dine\\nwith Mrs. Washington and himself, and to\\njoin a theatre party afterwards. To these\\ntwo widov/s of his former associates, Mrs.\\nNathaniel Greene and Mrs. Richard Mont-\\n57", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ngomery, the President always paid marked\\nattention.\\nIn order to add to the interest of his paint-\\ning, Mr. Huntington has been guilty of such\\nanachronisms as introducing into his picture\\nGeneral Nathaniel Greene, who died before\\nthe new government was established, while\\nthe Duke of Orleans, afterwards King of the\\nFrench, and the Duke of Kent, father of Queen\\nVictoria, w^ho. were in America at different\\ntimes, are represented as making their bows\\nto Mrs. Washington at the same time. Such\\nanachronisms as these may be overlooked in\\nthe poet, novelist, or artist, and although\\nsometimes misleading do not in this case\\ndestroy the historic value of Mr. Huntington s\\npainting, which has been most carefully\\nstudied in the matter of costumes as well as\\nwith regard to the faces and figures repre-\\nsented.\\nMr. Jefferson s daughter, Martha, who mar-\\nried Thomas Mann Randolph soon after her\\nreturn from abroad, appears in this picture\\nbut as no mention is made of a visit to New\\nYork in the numerous letters that passed\\nbetween her father and herself, it is doubtful\\nwhether she left the congenial domesticity\\nof Monticello for the gayeties of the capital.\\nMartha Jefferson s marriage was evidently\\npleasing to Mr. Jefferson, w^ho summed up\\nhis son-in-law s advantages in one of his char-\\nacteristic sentences, as a man of science,\\nsense, virtue and competence.\\n58", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMary, Maria, or Polly Jefferson, as she was\\nusually called, accompanied her father to\\nPhiladelphia in the autumn of 1791, as he\\n\\\\vrote to Mr. and Mrs. Randolph soon after\\nhe arrived at the capital:\\nThe first part of our journey was pleasant,\\nexcept some hair-breadth escapes which our\\nnew horse occasioned us in going down hills\\nthe first day or two, after which he behaved\\nbetter, and came through the journey pre-\\nserving the fierceness of his spirit to the last.\\nI believe he will make me a valuable horse.\\nMrs. Washington took possession of Maria\\nat Mount Vernon, and only restored her to\\nme here [Philadelphia]. It was fortunate\\nenough, as w^e had to travel through five days\\nof north-east storm, having learned at Mount\\nVernon that Congress was to meet on the 24th\\ninstead of the 31st, as I had thought.\\nMr. Huntington introduces Miss Haber-\\nsham, of Georgia, into his picture. This\\nyoung lady, of whom no contemporaneous\\ndescription is to be found, was the daughter\\nof Colonel Joseph Habersham, whose portrait,\\nby Charles Willson Peale, has lately been\\nacquired by Independence Hall. Colonel Hab-\\nersham was one of the heroic Southern figures\\nof the war. In 1775 he seized the powder\\nin the arsenal at Savannah, thus securing it\\nfor the patriot cause, and later as Major of\\nthe First Georgia Battalion defended the chief\\ncity of his State against a British naval attack.\\nColonel Habersham was appointed by Presi-\\n59", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndent Washington to succeed Mr. Samuel\\nOsgood as Postmaster-General, which posi-\\ntion he held during several administrations.\\nSenator Charles Carroll from Maryland was\\naccompanied to New York by his daughter\\nPolly, who had married Mr. Richard Caton,\\nan English gentleman w^ho came to America\\nin 1785. Mrs. Caton, who was herself charm-\\ning in manners and appearance, is now chiefly\\nknown as the mother of the beautiful Catons.\\nThe eldest of these daughters married Mr.\\nRobert Patterson, of Baltimore, and while\\nabroad with her husband was much admired\\nby young Sir Arthur Wellesley, afterwards\\nDuke of Wellington, who regularly corre-\\nsponded with Mrs. Patterson after her return\\nto America. Mrs. Patterson after her hus-\\nband s death revisited London. Her former\\nadmirer, the Duke of Wellington, was mar-\\nried; but as if it were written in the book of\\nfate that the American beauty should marry\\na W^ellesley, his elder brother, the Marquess\\nof Wellesley, then Viceroy of India, was cap-\\ntivated by the still young and lovely w^idow,\\nwhom he married. One of the sisters of the\\nMarchioness of Wellesley married Colonel\\nHervey, an aide-de-camp to Lord Wellington\\nat Waterloo, and becoming a widow was mar-\\nried to the Marquess of Caermarthen, after-\\nwards Duke of Leeds, while a third daughter\\nof Richard Caton married Baron Stafford, and\\na fourth became the wife of Mr. McTavish,\\nfor many years British Consul at Baltimore.\\n60", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nGeneral Oliver Wolcott, who had rendered\\nsuch good service in the field as well as in\\nCongress during the Revolution, was not in\\nNew York much of the time during the first\\nadministration. He was one of the first to\\ngreet the President when he reached New\\nHaven, during the Eastern tour of the Chief\\nMagistrate, and as Lieutenant-Governor, and\\nlater as Governor, of Connecticut was in con-\\nstant correspondence with the President, by\\nwhom he was highly esteemed.\\nIt was General Oliver Wolcott who, after\\nthe overthrow^ of the leaden statue of George\\nthe Third in New York, had it conveyed\\nto his home at Litchfield, Connecticut, where\\nunder his direction it ^vas converted into\\nbullets for the use of the army. In this patri-\\notic work General Wolcott was aided by the\\nwomen of his family.\\nIn writing to his wife from Philadelphia,\\nwhere he was attending the sessions of Con-\\ng -ess in 1777, General Wolcott asked for par-\\nticular information about the health of the\\nfamily, as Mrs. Wolcott and the children were\\nthen undergoing the barbarous process of in-\\noculation for small-pox. I perceive, he\\nsays, that Mariana has had it bad he [Dr.\\nSmith] writes very hard. I am heartily sorry\\nfor what the little Child has suffered, and very\\nmuch want to see her. If she has by this lost\\nsome of her Beauty, which I hope she has\\nnot, yet I well know she might spare much\\nof it and still retain as much as most of her\\n61", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "t\\\\\\nSALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nSex possess. Then the good New England\\nfather adds, as if in excuse for having made\\ntoo much of the fatal snare of beauty, But\\nI hope the Small Pox will give her no un-\\neasiness, tho it may have a little hurt her\\nComplexion, as there is no valuable or lasting\\nBeauty but what exists in the Mind; and if\\nshe cultivates these Excellencies, she will not\\nfail of being beloved and esteemed.\\nFrom her portrait and from the descriptions\\nof contemporaries, it is evident that Mari-\\nana did not lose her beauty, even if she had\\nthe small-pox very hard. Marianne was\\nthe youngest daughter of General Wolcott,\\nand was one of the brides of the first adminis-\\ntration, as she married Chauncey Goodrich in\\nOctober, 1789. Mr. Goodrich was in Congress\\nlater but in these early years he and his wife\\nspent much of their time in their Hartford\\nhome, as appears from Mrs. Goodrich s letters\\nto her sister-in-law, Mrs. Oliver W^olcott, Jr.\\nA warm friendship evidently existed between\\nthese ladies. Before their marriage they wrote\\nfanciful school-girl letters to one another, and\\nafterwards long domestic epistles about their\\nhusbands and children and of their ov/n doings\\nat home and abroad. Soon after her mar-\\nriage Mrs. Goodrich w^rote to her sister-in-\\nla-w, who was with her husband in New-\\nYork, that her letter had found her seated by\\nthe fire with her good man like sober, honest\\npeople, while to her mother she wrote, a little\\nlater, that although her sister Laura had gone\\n62", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Chauiicey Coodrich", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nto the Assembly with all the gaiety and good\\nspirits of a girl of sixteen, she is spending the\\nevening at her own fireside, and means to\\ntake Oliver s advise and not play too many\\nmodish pranks this Winter. This was Oliver\\nWolcott, Jr., who was in New York as Audi-\\ntor of the Treasury. Mr. Wolcott was made\\nSecretary of the Treasury upon the resigna-\\ntion of Mr. Hamilton.\\nSecond only in importance to Mrs. Wash-\\nington s drawing-rooms and dinners were the\\nentertainments of Mrs. John Jay and Lady\\nKitty Duer. By some good fortune, the visit-\\ning-lists of both of these ladies have been\\npreserved, and on them are to be found the\\nnames of statesmen, diplomats, foreign min-\\nisters, and consuls, side by side with those of\\nthe men and v/omen prominent in the social\\nlife of New York and of other leading cities of\\nthe Union.\\nMrs. John Jay, a daughter of Governor\\nLivingston, of Ne^w Jersey, was a v^^oman of\\nconsiderable natural ability, of great charm of\\nmanner, as well as of distinguished beauty.\\nMrs. Jay accompanied her husband upon his\\nmissions to Spain and France, and while in\\nParis in 1782 made many friends. Among these\\nwas the lovely Marquise de Lafayette. In a\\nletter, written from the French capital a few\\nyears later, Mrs. Adams said, Every person\\nwho knew her when here bestows many en-\\ncomiums on Mrs. Jay. Another contempo-\\nrary in writing of Mrs. Jay said that with\\n63", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nher father s stern patriotism, she blended feat-\\nures of gentleness, grace and beauty peculiarly\\nher own.\\nAn own cousin of Mrs. Jay was Cathe-\\nrine Duer, who with her mother, Lady Stir-\\nling, her sister. Lady Mary Watts, Lady\\nTemple, and Lady Christiana Griffin, wife of\\nthe President of Congress, were among the\\ntitled dames of this administration. Cathe-\\nrine Alexander -was a daughter of Major-\\nGeneral William Alexander, Earl of Stirling,\\nthe American claimant to the Scottish earl-\\ndom of Stirling. During the w^ar, while Lord\\nStirling was engaged in active service. Lady\\nKitty was with her mother, at the Stirling\\nmanor-house among the hills of Basking Ridge,\\nand naturally entered into whatever military\\nfestivities served to dispel the gloom of those\\nanxious days in the winter of 79, when the\\nenemy in New York was rather too near for\\ncomfort or security to be felt in any of the New\\nJersey homes of that vicinity. Perhaps for\\nthis reason the young people enjoyed their\\nlittle frisks all the more. Lady Kitty cer-\\ntainly enjoyed one especial gaiety at Plucka-\\nmin, held in honor of the French alliance, to\\nwhich Colonel William Duer, her father s\\nfriend and her own, came and danced with\\nher again and again. After some months a\\n^vedding followed, a military w^edding, w^hen\\nthe Commander-in-Chief himself gave away\\nthe bride, and all around the lawn troops\\nwere on guard, lest the army in New York\\n64", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nshould suddenly appear upon the scene and\\nturn the wedding into a surprise party of a\\nvery disagreeable kind.\\nAlthough possessed of no lordly title, Colonel\\nWilliam Duer was in every way worthy of his\\nfair bride, as he -was a distinguished man and\\nan ardent American, even if he had begun\\nhis career in the British army. Colonel Duer\\nhad rendered important service in the Com-\\nmittee of Safety of New York and in the\\nState and National Councils, and it is said\\nthat to his influence was largely due the\\nfailure of the infamous Conway cabal, whose\\nobject ^vas to depose General Washington\\nfrom his command of the army. Colonel\\nDuer and his wife were valued friends of the\\nPresident and Mrs. Washington and were\\nfrequently their guests at dinners and recep-\\ntions, while in their o^vn home on Cortlandt\\nStreet they entertained in a style befitting\\ntheir station. Mr. Cutler of course dined\\nwith the Duers, in company, he records, with\\nMr. Osgood, President of the Board of the\\nTreasviry, Major Sargent, and several other\\ngentlemen.\\nAt table we were honored with the com-\\npany of Mademoiselle La Fouche,* a French\\nlady of the family of one of the noblesse, and\\nLady Kitty, the wife of Colonel Duer. Lady\\nKitty, for so she is called, was the daughter of\\n*This may have been Mademoiselle Fauchet, whose\\nfather, M. Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet, succeeded M.\\nGenet as Minister from France.\\n65", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nLord Sterling, and inherits the title from her\\nfather, who had no male heir. She is a fine\\nwoman, though not a beauty, very sociable,\\nand with most accomplished manners. She\\nperformed the honors of the table most grace-\\nfully, was constantly attended by two servants\\nin livery, and insisted on performing the whole\\nherself. Colonel Duer is Secretary to the\\nBoard of Treasury, and lives in the style of\\na nobleman.\\nWhether Lady Kitty s performance con-\\nsisted in anything more than helping to the\\nsoup and dessert, Mr. Cutler does not state.\\nWhat seems to have impressed him the most\\nwas Colonel Duer s wine list, fifteen dif-\\nferent kinds, and a certain sort of bottled\\ncider that the New England parson evidently\\nmistook for champagne, in the first instance.\\nWhat it w^as to a city with a population\\nof a little over thirty thousand, -which had\\nbeen laid waste by a destructive fire and by\\nthe even more destructive seven years resi-\\ndence of the British army, to receive so great\\nan influx of inhabitants as came with the\\nsessions of Congress, we may well imagine.\\nSeeing New York arise from her ashes and\\nput on the garment of praise for the spirit of\\nheaviness, it is not strange that all the other\\ntowns of any size, and some of no size at all,\\nshould have contended for the honor, glory,\\nand profit of making the capital their ow^n. A\\nfar hotter contest was this than that waged\\nover the title by which the President should\\n66", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nbe addressed, or that about the etiquette and\\nceremonial of the new government, because\\nthe residence bill was a matter of more\\nvital and material interest. General Philemon\\nDickinson had been appointed by the Conti-\\nnental Congress of 1784, in company with Mr.\\nRobert Morris and General Philip Schuyler,\\nto select a site for the federal capital. These\\nthree gentlemen reported in favor of Trenton.\\nThis report, like many others upon the same\\nsubject, was laid upon the table, which was\\ndoubtless the best place for it. Other propo-\\nsitions for the residence, as it was called,\\nwere to place the capital at Lancaster,Wright s\\nFerry, York, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Reading, or\\nGermantown. One of the Pennsylvania Sena-\\ntors went through the form of putting these\\nnames in nomination, the real point at issue\\nalv/ays being Avhether the seat of government\\nshould be established in New York, Philadel-\\nphia, or on the ten-mile space, to be known\\never after as the District of Columbia. Those\\nw^ho have studied this question most thor-\\noughly say, that the establishing of the gov-\\nernment in the District of Columbia was a\\nforegone conclusion, being the result of a com-\\npromise between the assumptionists North\\nand South. The Pennsylvania delegates were\\nnaturally in favor of a residence in their\\nown State, Mr. Robert Morris advocating the\\nfalls of the Delaware Mr. George Clymer spoke\\nstrongly in favor of the banks of the Susque-\\nhanna, Harrisburg, as the most favorable posi-\\n67", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntion in the State, while Mr. Wynkoop, named\\nby some of his associates His Highness of\\nthe Lower House, seems to have wavered\\nbetween Germantown and the banks of the\\nPotomac. ^A^ith all their efforts and lobbying,\\nthe most that the Pennsylvanians were able\\nto do, and that mainly through the influence\\nof Mr. Morris, was to secure the temporary\\nresidence of the government while the\\nnational buildings were being erected in the\\nDistrict of Columbia. Mr. Maclay evidently\\nthought that the Pennsylvania delegates had\\nnot played their cards adroitly, as he remarked\\nto Mr. Wynkoop, Mr. Clymer, and Mr. Fitz-\\nsimmons that they might say to themselves,\\nas the Scotchman said in his prayers, We\\nwere left to the freedom of our ow^n vv^ill, and\\na pretty hand we have made of it.\\nThe Nev Yorkers, who had lost the capital,\\nrevenged themselves by caricaturing the affair,\\nand presenting Mr. Morris in the most absurd\\nlight. Why indeed, said they and others in the\\nopposition, should not the capital be estab-\\nlished in Philadelphia for the next ten years\\nWas it not a finer city than New York, was\\nnot the theatre always open, and w^as it not\\nthe residence of Bobby the Treasurer\\nOne of the caricatures represented Mr. Morris\\nas Bobby marching off with the Federal\\nark upon his shoulders, w^hile the Devil\\nattended him at the Jersey City ferry-house,\\ncalling This way, Bobby.\\nDespite opposition and lampooning, carica-\\n68", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntures of Bobby and Miss Assumption\\nwith her ill-gotten offspring, Philadelphia and\\nPotowmachus, the residence bill was\\ncarried and New York w^as shorn of her glory.\\nAfter a residence of a little over a year, Con-\\ngress and all that belonged thereunto were\\nremoved from New York to the banks of the\\nDela-ware. Mr. Maclay moralizes over the\\neffect upon Philadelphia should a great com-\\nmercial town arise upon the Potomac, utterly\\nleaving out of his calculations the potentialities\\nof the great metropolis that was destined to\\narise upon the scene of the long and destruc-\\ntive occupation of the British troops, and of the\\nbrilliant, fleeting vision of brave men and fair\\nw^omen, w^hose presence has forever hallowed\\nthe streets of old New York, and made the\\nnames of Wall Street and Pearl and Maiden\\nLane and Cortlandt a part of the history of\\nthe new Republic, v^^hose foundations were\\nlaid here, whose builders once lived in these\\nnarrow down-town thoroughfares.\\n69", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCHAPTER III. LIFE IN THE QUAKER\\nCAPITAL.\\nHILE different cities were contend-\\ning for Congress alive, as those of\\nGreece once contended for Homer\\ndead, Philadelphians were building a suitable\\nhall for the sessions of the Senate and House.\\nIt is difficult now to understand why Phila-\\ndelphia, or any other city, should have been so\\ndesirous of a merely temporary residence of\\nthe government. Mr. Maclay, with ingenuity\\nas w^ell as acrimony, gives it as his explanation\\nThat the Citizens of Philadelphia believe\\nthat Congress \\\\vill become so enamoured of\\nthem as never to wish to leave them, and all\\nthis with the recent example of New York\\nbefore their eyes, w^hose allurements are more\\nthan ten to two compared with Philadelphia.\\nOther persons seem to have entertained the\\nsame opinion as Mr. Maclay with regard to\\nthe hopes of the residents of the Quaker City,\\neven if they expressed themselves somewhat\\nmore mildly, and the fact that the erection of\\na handsome and spacious residence for the\\nPresident of the United States was begun in\\n1791 would seem to carry out this idea.\\nThe impulse that would be given to trade\\nand manufactures by the residence of the gov-\\nernment \\\\vas naturally an important factor in\\nthis connection.\\n70", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nA writer of this period says, that upon the\\narrival of ships from England, in the spring\\nand autumn, all along Front Street from Arch\\nto Walnut, the pavements were covered with\\nboxes and bales of English dry goods. The\\nretailers, principally women, hovered around\\nwhile the men were opening the boxes, vie^v-\\ning with admiration the rich varieties of for-\\neign chintzes, muslins, and calicoes of the\\nlatest fashion. The first brilliant retail fancy\\ndry goods shop was opened about this time\\nby a Mrs. Whitesides, as it was said, from\\nLondon in the true Bond Street style, at 134\\nMarket Street and the uncommon size of the\\npanes of glass, the fine mull-mull and jaconet\\nmuslins, the chintzes and linens, suspended in\\nwhole pieces and entwined together in puffs\\nand festoons, and the shopman behind the\\ncounter bowing and smiling, created for a time\\na sensation. Attractive shops were to be\\nfound at 30 South Second Street and on North\\nFront Street, ^vhere Mrs. Holland dispensed\\nher goods and her smiles, and where Mrs.\\nJane Taylor sold dry goods and trimmings, at\\nthe sign of the Golden Lamb, which, let us\\nhope, v^^as intended as a guarantee that no\\nfleecing was to be done inside the door over\\nwhich the gilded genius presided. These pop-\\nular establishments were precursors of the\\nfamous Levy s, a shop situated near the Cus-\\ntom-House on Chestnut Street, to \u00e2\u0096\u00a0which the\\nbelles of the early years of the present century\\nrepaired for the munitions of war.\\n71", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAll along Water Street, once called King,\\nand Front Street, which was separated from\\nWater by a wall and an iron railing, were the\\nwarehouses and stores of the old-time mer-\\nchants of Philadelphia. Here were the India\\nstores of Robert Morris and Thomas Willing,\\nand here Jacob Ridgway, John Welsh, Thomas\\nP. Cope, Robert Ralston, Charles Massey,\\nManuel Eyre, Henry Pratt, Stephen Girard,\\nthe Wains, Whartons, Lewises, Hollings-\\nworths, and many others engaged in trade\\nwith South America, the Indies, China, and\\nEuropean cities, and built up great fortunes,\\nin days when Philadelphia was an important\\ncommercial centre.\\nAlthough importations from foreign lands\\nbrought many luxuries to this city, life was\\nstill primitive in certain respects. Many of\\nthe old merchants lived in houses adjoining or\\nquite near their stores, and some had large\\ncellars for storage purposes under their dwell-\\nings. Two of the greatest merchants of the\\ntime, Henry Pratt and Stephen Girard, lived\\non Water Street, the premises of the latter\\nrunning through to his store on Front Street.\\nMr. Pratt, who was a son of Matthew Pratt,\\nthe artist, afterwards bought a fine house on\\nFront Street that had belonged to Isaac Whar-\\nton. W^ithin a few doors lived Henry Drinker,\\na leading Quaker merchant, w^hose wife here\\nwrote in her diary a simple record of the daily\\nevents of her own small circle.\\nJohn Swanwick, now chiefly known to the\\n72", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Henry PniU\\n^v Gilbert Stuart", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nantiquarian as a writer of society verses, was\\nengaged in the importation of West India\\ngoods at No. 20 Penn Street, while at his store\\nnear the drawbridge Charles Wharton, who\\nimported largely from Southern Europe and\\nfrom China, was advertised in the Pennsylvania\\nPacket as setting forth an alluring stock of\\nSouchong, Congo, and Hyson teas, and wines\\nfrom Lisbon and Fayal.\\nFront and Second Streets seem to have been\\nthe favorite dvi^elling-streets of the Quaker\\nmerchants, although John and Elliston Perot,\\nwho had their store on Water Street, built\\nhouses side by side as far out High Street as\\n297 and 299, which locality was considered\\nalmost out of town in those days.\\nThe building erected for the sessions of Con-\\ngress was placed upon the southeast corner of\\nSixth and Chestnut Streets, upon the same lot\\nas the State House, a happy selection, being\\nhalf-way between the thickly settled portion\\nof the city and the western streets tow^ards\\nwhich men of speculative minds were beginning\\nto turn their thoughts.* In the second-story\\nroom of this building the Senate of the United\\nStates held its sessions, and here, on the 4th\\nof March, 1793, the oath of office was admin-\\nistered to Washington upon his re-election for\\nthe ensuing four years as President of the\\nMr. John F. Watson says that Mr. Markoe s house, on\\nthe south side of High Street, between Ninth and Tenth,\\nwas, when built, called the house next to Schuylkill, on\\naccount of being so far out of town.\\n73", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nUnited States. Edward Thornton, Esq., after-\\nv^ards Secretary of Legation to the United\\nStates from Great Britain, thus described the\\ninauguration ceremonies in a letter to Sir\\nJames Bland Burges, under date of March 5,\\n1793 I was present yesterday at the cere-\\nmony of administering the oath of office to\\nMr. Washington on his re-election for the\\nnext four years as President of the United\\nStates. It was administered by one of the\\nJudges of the Supreme Court in the Senate\\nChamber in the presence of the Senators and\\nas many individuals as could be crowded into\\nthe room. The President first made a short\\nspeech, expressive of his sense of the high\\nhonour conferred on him by his re-election.\\nThere was nothing particular in the ceremony\\nitself.\\nThere was one thing v/hich I observed\\nyesterday in the Senate Chamber, w^hich if not\\naccidental, will serve to mark the character\\nof the people, though it was trifling in itself.\\nThe portraits of the King and Queen of France,\\nwhich were presented, I believe during the\\nwar, were covered with a curtain, a circum-\\nstance which was not the case most certainly\\nwhen I have been there on former occasions.\\nAlas poor Louis\\nDeserted at his utmost need\\nBy those his former bounty fed\\nThese portraits of himself and his Queen had been\\nsent by Louis XVI. to Congress in 1785. As Congress had\\n74", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCongress Hall was conveniently situated for\\nlegislative purposes, being only a short walk\\nfrom the President s residence on High Street.\\nMr. Bradford, the Attorney-General, was liv-\\ning near the President on the opposite side\\nof High Street James ^A^ilson, one of the\\nJudges of the Supreme Court, and Mr. Otis,\\nSecretary of the Senate, were both established\\non the same street below Sixth, w^here also\\nlived Dr. Caspar Wistar, as great a physician\\nas Dr. Benjamin Rush in the estimation of\\nmany old Philadelphians. On Mulberry, now\\nArch, one square above High, lived Timothy\\nPickering, Postmaster-General, Jared Inger-\\nsoll, Attorney-General for Pennsylvania, and\\nThomas Mifflin, its Governor, and that spirit-\\nthen no permanent seat, the French Minister, Barb6-Mar-\\nbois, was not able to deliver the pictures. As he was about\\nto leave America, he asked Mr. Robert Morris in 1785 to\\ntake charge of them until a proper place for them at the\\nmeeting-place of Congress could be provided. Mr. Morris\\nconsented, and preparations were made to unpack the pic-\\ntures. To this Marbois objected in writing. Mr. Morris\\nwrote back with some irritation, as if he resented the sus-\\npicion that he was making an idle display of vanity by\\nputting up the portraits in his own house. He said that\\nhe meant to lock them up. M. Marbois, however, replied\\ncourteously, repudiating the suspicion which had been\\nascribed to him, and proposing to deliver the pictures to\\nCongress himself.\\nThe fate of these portraits has never been positively\\nascertained, but it is supposed that they were carried to\\nWashington City and there destroyed, with so many others,\\nby the fire that destroyed the government buildings in 1812.\\n75", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nual interests might not be lost sight of amid\\nsurroundings that represented things tem-\\nporal, a number of churches of different de-\\nnominations were clustered together between\\nSecond and Sixth and Arch and Chestnut\\nStreets, while quite near the Friends Meeting\\non Second Street rose the lofty steeple of\\nChrist Church.\\nMr. Oliver Wolcott w^rote to his wife that\\nhe had secured a house on Third Street at\\none hundred pounds, which was double what\\nw^ould have been exacted before the matter\\nof residence was determined. Mr. Wolcott\\nafterwards lived on Chestnut Street quite near\\nCongress Hall.\\nThe Secretary of War, James McHenry,\\nwas living at 113 South Third Street, not far\\nfrom the residence of Judge Iredell, of South\\nCarolina, Alexander Hamilton s house was on\\nthe same street, while the Assistant Secretary\\nof the Treasury, Tench Coxe, was established\\nat 126 South Second Street.\\nThird Street was a very fashionable quarter\\nat this time, the court end of the town. Here\\nlived the Willings, Powels, Byrds, Vauxes,\\nChew^s, and Hopkinsons. At the corner of\\nSecond and Union Mr. Archibald McCall had\\na large house surrounded by a great garden,\\non Union above Third was the house of Mr.\\nJohn Beale Bordley, and on the east side of\\nThird Street, with grounds reaching from Pine\\nStreet to Union, was the residence of Chief-\\nJustice McKean.\\n76", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nOn Second, Third, and Fourth Streets, and\\non Walnut Street across from the State House\\nyard, which then had an inhospitable board\\nfence all around it, senators and represent-\\natives were entertained, either in their ow^n\\nhomes or in the Union Hotel on Fourth Street,\\nkept by Francis, -who took pains to explain to\\nMr. Twining, when he applied to him for\\nboarding, that his house was not a tavern,\\nbut a private house for the reception of Mem-\\nbers of Congress. The English gentleman\\ngratefully accepted a small room at the top\\nof the house, considering himself fortunate\\nto secure a foothold in this exclusive resort,\\nwhere he dined with the Vice-President, Mr.\\nAdams, in his drab coat, and breakfasted with\\nsenators and representatives, Democratic and\\nFederalist, who forgot their political differ-\\nences in their enjoyment of Mrs. Francis s\\nunrivalled buckwheat cakes.\\nThose travellers who have left the most in-\\nteresting pictures of Philadelphia life during\\nthe latter part of the century are the Marquis\\nde Chastellux, Brissot de Warville, the Duke\\nde la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Mr. Henry\\nWansey, Mrs. John Warder, and Mr. Thomas\\nTwining. The latter was an English gentle-\\nman who came to America from India in 1795,\\naccompanied by two rather singular travelling\\ncompanions, a small Bengal cow, and a great\\nsheep which he called a doombah. Find-\\ning no grazing ground near his lodgings, Mr.\\nTwining was fortunate in the friendship of\\n77", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMr. Bingham, who extended the hospitality\\nof his fine lawn on Fourth Street to the much\\nprized doombah.\\nMonsieur de Liancourt in his diary speaks of\\nthe distinctly English features of Philadelphia\\nlife, while Mr. Wansey found the manners and\\nstyles so like London that, while sitting in the\\ntheatre, he almost imagined himself in the\\ncapital of his own country.\\nThat the Quaker City was not destitute of\\namusements may be gathered from the fact\\nthat two theatres were supported, one know^n\\nas the Southwark Theatre, at the corner of\\nSouth Street and Apollo, in w^hich Major\\nAndre, Captain Delancey, and other young\\nofficers had given amateur theatricals during\\nthe British occupation, and another place of\\nentertainment on Chestnut Street above Sixth,\\nopened in 1794. Despite petitions signed by\\nover three thousand citizens, by clergymen\\nof different denominations, including Bishop\\nWhite, the Reverend George Duffield, the\\nReverend Ashbel Green, and Joseph Pilmore,\\nand by prominent elders of the Society of\\nFriends, theatrical representations had been\\ngiven in Philadelphia, with occasional inter-\\nmissions, from 1754 until 1794, when the open-\\ning of the large theatre on Chestnut Street\\nmade it evident that this form of amusement\\ncould not be suppressed.\\nSome of the earliest entertainments in this\\ncity \u00e2\u0096\u00a0were given in a large brick warehouse in\\nWater Street below Pine, owned by William\\n78", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nPlumsted. After the building of the Southwark\\nTheatre, in 1759, the New American Company\\nbrought out Thomas Godfrey s Prince of\\nParthia, the first play by an American author\\nperformed upon a regular stage. Another\\nnative play given at the Southwark Theatre in\\nPhiladelphia was The Widow of Malabar,\\nw^ritten by Colonel David Humphreys, for-\\nmerly aide-de-camp to General Washington,\\nwho represented the United States in Portu-\\ngal and in Spain during the first and second\\nadministrations.\\nSuch influential citizens as Dr. John Red-\\nman, General Walter Stewart, Robert Morris,\\nJames Lyle, Edward Tilghman, Thomas Wil-\\nling, and Charles Biddle were so much in\\nfavor of the play that they signed their names\\nto a counter petition and when the corner-\\nstone of the new theatre on Chestnut Street\\nwas laid, the Honorable Jared Ingersoll de-\\nlivered an address upon the occasion.\\nThis theatre was the one that excited the\\nadmiration of Mr. Wansey, who had found,\\nhe says, a very bad theatre in New York.\\nHe vi^ent to the New Theatre in Chestnut\\nStreet to see Mrs. Inchbald s play, Every\\nOne has his Faults, with the farce, No\\nSong, No Supper/ and came away delighted\\nwith the theatre, the audience, and the acting.\\nThe President frequently attended the play\\nat the Southwark and at the New Theatre,\\nand sometimes indulged in going to Ricketts s\\nCircus, which was at the corner of Twelfth\\n79", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand Market Streets, and afterwards at the\\nsouthwest corner of Sixth and Chestnut\\nStreets. Mr. Ricketts, who was a superb\\nequestrian, rode two horses for the amuse-\\nment of the company, besides treatmg them\\nto performances on the tight-rope by an Italian\\nacrobat. General Washington helped to make\\nthis circus fashionable by attending a perform-\\nance, given soon after it was opened, for the\\npurpose of supplying the poor of the city with\\nfuel. An entertainment was afterwards given\\nfor the benefit of certain needy French exiles\\nwho came to Philadelphia.\\nAlthough the Old American Company\\ngave, at the Southwark Theatre, plays of so\\nelevated a character as an adaptation of\\nHamlet, or a moral and instructive tale\\ncalled Filial Piety Exemplified in the His-\\ntory of the Prince of Denmark, its enter-\\ntainments were not always classic, as Robert-\\nson, from London, sometimes illustrated the\\nAntipodean Whirligig, with his head upon\\na strong table and his feet in the air; and upon\\none occasion, when his Excellency and his\\nfriends were present, the evening, which had\\nbegun with a representation of The Young\\nQuaker or. The Fair Philadelphian, ended\\nwith a spirited leap of one of the performers\\nthrough a barrel of fire.\\nA more sedate and instructive place of\\nresort was Mr. Peale s Museum, which at\\nthis time occupied a room in the building of\\nthe Philosophical Society, on Fifth Street.\\n80", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nHere the indefatigable artist and scientist had\\ngathered together an interesting collection of\\nnatural objects, which he afterwards removed\\nto one of the upper rooms of the State House.\\nIn these, and even in earlier, days Philadel-\\nphia possessed a very gay and fashionable\\ncircle, despite the large Quaker element in its\\npopulation, and, perhaps in consequence of\\nthis element, \\\\vas distinguished for its hos-\\npitality and generous living. It may have been\\nthe English characteristics of this city, so\\noften spoken of by travellers and so like their\\nnative Virginia, whose social life in the last\\ncentury was said to be more English than\\nthe England of the Georges, that made Phila-\\ndelphia a congenial residence to the Presi-\\ndent and Mrs. \\\\A^ashington. Here they found\\na formal and established social order, which\\nwas in many cases united with great sim-\\nplicity and sincerity. This combination, v/hich\\nw^as, of course, due to the mingling of the\\nChurch and the Quaker elements in business\\nand in society, was especially suited to the\\nVirginia lady and gentleman, w^ho, with their\\nthrifty household and farming habits, pos-\\nsessed a strong predilection in favor of a\\ncertain amount of form and ceremony in pub-\\nlic and private life. Nor was it the gay and\\nfashionable side of the capital that was most\\ncongenial to the President and his wife, it was\\nrather the strongly conservative element in its\\nlife, that existed then in a far greater degree\\nthan to-day.\\n6 8i", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAmong the families of leading Quakers\\nWashington had warm friends, nor were\\nthese men likely to forget that when some\\nof their members were exiled from the city\\nwhich their ancestors had founded, it was the\\nCommander-in-Chief at Valley Forge who\\nrecommended clemency towards them, saying\\nthat humanity pleaded strongly in their\\nbehalf.\\nMrs. Henry Drinker, who with her friends\\nwas allowed to pass through the lines to visit\\nher exiled husband, expressed a certain re-\\nstrained admiration for G. Washington his\\nwrife. Mrs. Washington, who entertained the\\nQuaker ladies in her quarters at Valley Forge,\\nwas spoken of by Mrs. Drinker as a sociable\\npretty kind of woman.\\nMrs. George Logan, a Quakeress of even\\nmore cultivation and of a broader mind than\\nMrs. Drinker, spoke of General W^ashington\\nwith admiration amounting to enthusiasm,\\nfinding in him a rare and perfect pattern of\\nthe dignity to w^hich man might attain by\\nliving up to the laws of virtue and honor, his\\ncolossal greatness polished and adorned with\\nall the amenity and gentleness \\\\vhich delights\\nand endears in domestic society.\\nMiers Fisher, who was himself one of those\\nexiled to Virginia, later became a friend of the\\nPresident, was visited by him at his country-\\nseat, Ury, which was near the Fox Chase,\\nExiles to Virginia, by Thomas Gilpin.\\n82", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand is said to have presented his portrait to\\nthe Quaker lawyer.*\\nThe Quakers who were sent to Virginia\\n^vere not the only Philcidelphians who had\\nbeen exiled during the war. The Reverend\\nJacob Duche and Mr. Samuel Shoemaker found\\nit expedient to make a long stay in England,\\nwhere they led a much more agreeable life\\nthan if they had remained at home. Governor\\nJohn Penn and Chief-Justice Benjamin Chew\\nwere arrested, but ^vere permitted to retire to\\nthe Union Iron Works in New Jersey, which\\nwere partly owned by Mrs. Chew s uncle,\\nwhere they remained prisoners upon parole\\nfor more than a year. This treatment of the\\nlate Governor of the Province and of Mr.\\nChew seems to have been as unjust as that of\\nthe Friends, as no overt act could be alleged\\nagainst either of them. Mr. Chew had signed\\nthe Non-Importation Agreements of 1763, as\\nhad many of the exiled Friends, and during\\nthe sessions of the Continental Congress had\\nhospitably entertained Colonel Washington\\nand John Adams, while, upon the authority of\\nMiers Fisher, he is said to have distinctly\\nstated, when questioned by a juror upon what\\nconstituted high treason, the following limita-\\ntions But in the moment w^hen the King or\\nhis Ministers shall exceed the constitutional\\nauthority vested in them by the Constitution,\\nThis portrait, by James Sharpies, is still in the posses-\\nsion of the descendants of Mr. Fisher.\\n83", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsubmission to their mandate becomes Trea-\\nson. The head and front of Mr. Chew s\\noffending seems to have been that he held\\nimportant positions under the Crown. The\\nunpleasant campaign incidents which befell\\nthese two gentlemen did not prevent the re-\\nnewal of cordial relations between them and\\nGeneral Washington. When the latter was in\\nPhiladelphia attending the Convention of 1787,\\nhe dined and drank tea with Mr. John Penn\\nat Lansdowne, with Mr. Chew and with Dr.\\nGeorge Logan at Stenton. Later the Presi-\\ndent gave evidence of his entire confidence in\\nMr. Chew s integrity and ability by appointing\\nhim Judge and President of the High Court of\\nErrors and Appeals in Pennsylvania.\\nOn Front Street, on Second, Third, and\\nFourth Streets, and upon the thoroughfares\\nintersected by them, from Mulberry, now^ Arch,\\nto Cedar Street, beside the homes of the Wil-\\nlings, Powels, Whites, Binghams, McCalls,\\nShippens, and other leading Church of Eng-\\nland families, were the no less substantial\\nand comfortable, if less showy, homes of the\\nQuaker aristocracy. The owners of these\\nhouses wore plain clothes and used plain lan-\\nguage, yet the luxuries of life and some of its\\nornaments, in the line of handsome silver and\\nchina, seem not to have been despised by these\\ngood Friends. Many of them owned coaches\\nThe Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania, by\\nCharles P. Keith.\\n84", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndrawn by fine horses, and even if, like Thomas\\nWharton, they named such a vehicle, in all\\nhumility, a convenience, a coach was then\\ndeemed an even greater luxury than to-day.\\nThe chariot which Mrs. ^A^ashington used\\nduring her residence in Philadelphia had been\\nbuilt for John Penn while he was Governor\\nof the Province, and is described as a very\\nhandsome equipage, of a delicate cream color,\\nrichly decorated with gilt medallions. Mrs.\\nJames Pemberton, a Friend, drove so fine a\\ncoach that General Howe confiscated it for\\nhis own use w^hile in Philadelphia.\\nAnother luxury indulged in by Friends at\\nthis time, and even earlier, was the carpeting\\nof their rooms, which custom was objected to\\nby the more rigorous of the sect. Brissot de\\nWarville cites an instance of a Quaker from\\nCarolina w^ho went to dine with an opulent\\nPhiladelphia Friend. On finding the passage\\nfrom the door to the staircase covered with\\ncarpet, the Carolina Quaker declined to enter\\nthe house, saying that he never dined in a\\nhouse where there was luxury, and that it\\nwas better to clothe the poor than to clothe\\nthe earth.\\nMrs. John Warder, an English Friend, who\\nvisited Philadelphia in 1786, described a num-\\nber of sumptuous entertainments at Samuel\\nPleasant s, John Clifford s, Billy Morris s,\\nwhom she considered something of an epi-\\ncure, at George Emlen s, James Pember-\\nton s, and at the house of Miers and Sally\\n8S", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nFisher, both of whom she found truly agree-\\nable, observing the strictest gentility with the\\nQuaker. At some of these dinners and sup-\\npers Mrs. Warder partook of the unaccus-\\ntomed terrapin, which she described, without\\nenthusiasm, as a small kind of turtle. In\\nview of the frequent onslaughts that Mrs.\\nWarder records upon green-turtle soup, boned\\nturkey, roast pig, venison, oysters, and all\\nmanner of home-made pastry and sweets, in\\nthe preparation of which the Colonial lady\\nexcelled, it is not strange that John Warder\\nshould have been laid up with the gout during\\nsome days of his visit, or that his wife should\\nhave reached the conclusion that Philadelphia\\nFriends were more superb in their entertam-\\nments than in England.\\nFrom the stand-point of an English Friend,\\nMrs. Warder freely criticized the costumes of\\nPhiladelphia members of the Society, and did\\nnot hesitate to remark, that to see an old\\nman stand up in meeting, with a mulberry\\ncoat, nankeen waistcoat and breeches, with\\nwhite stockings, would look singular in Eng-\\nland while some of the women s costumes\\nseemed to her inconsistent. Mrs. Warder\\nwas, herself, remonstrated with by an intimate\\nfriend for indulging in a v/halebone bonnet,\\nwhich, for some reason, was considered more\\nworldly than pasteboard, but was comforted\\nby knowing that her cap was the admiration\\nof grave and gay. The English lady does\\nnot state in detail the difference between her\\n86", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nown dress and that of Philadelphia Friends,\\nbut she frankly confesses in one place that,\\nalthough Nancy Emlen s mind appears to be\\na perfect symmetry of heavenly love, her\\nown poor mind would have to go through\\nsevere conflicts to submit to the dress worn\\nby her and others, which was all brown\\nexcept her cap, which was coarse muslin\\nwithout either border or strings, Despite\\nher unbecoming costume, Mrs. Emlen was\\nevidently fair to look upon, as Mrs. Warder\\nacknowledged that she had all Becky Gur-\\nney s sweetness of countenance, with a taller\\nand more agreeable person.\\nRather dull, the lives of the young Friends\\nseem to us, when compared with those of\\ntheir gayer sisters and brothers in the Christ\\nChurch and St. Peter s circle yet they made\\nthe most of their small gayeties in the w^ay of\\nweddings and Yearly Meetings, and w^ere prob-\\nably quite as happy as the rest of the world.\\nThese latter occasions came to be, in a cer-\\ntain sense, important social events, when the\\nmothers of families attended to their visiting\\nand shopping and the boys and girls exchanged\\nnews, confidences, and sometimes hearts, as\\nmany Friendly marriages grew out of the meet-\\ning of young Quakers at their yearly reunions.\\nThe letters of the girls of the time to their\\nfriends, and to and from their lovers, are full\\nof the simple pleasures of their lives and the\\ninnocent gossip of their little world. A favorite\\ndevice of these young creatures was to write\\n87", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nto their intimate friends under assumed names\\nconsequently, these plain Sallies, Hannahs,\\nand Deborahs appeared in their letters as\\nJuliets, Babettes, Clarissas, and Belindas,\\nwhile their devoted swains replied to them\\nover such wicked or worldly signatures as\\nLothario, Orlando, Lysander, Philario, and\\nStrephon. The language of love then, as now,\\nknew^ no law. A Friendly lover who wrote\\nupon one page of his diary most discreetly of\\nthe solid and edifying conversation of his\\nbeloved, upon the next sighs like a Shake-\\nspearian sonneteer over the apparent coldness\\nof his fair charmer.\\nWhen Elizabeth Drinker s daughter Molly\\nran off with Samuel Rhoads, what a stir\\nand flutter there must have been in all the\\nQuaker dove-cotes Yet, after reading a de-\\nscription of a proper Friend s wedding, with\\nits prolonged passings of meeting and baldly\\nsimple service, it does not seem strange that\\nyoung people should sometimes have taken\\nmatters into their own hands and applied to\\nthe mayor for a legal sanction of their happi-\\nness.\\nJohn Smith, who married Hannah, a daugh-\\nter of the first James Logan, thus described\\nthe wedding of James Pemberton, a brother of\\nIsrael, who w^as called King of the Quakers.\\nRode home in the morning and fitted out my\\nfour wheel chaise to bring some of Jemmy\\nPemberton s wedding guests to meeting was\\nat the meeting which was large and solid\\n88", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMord[ecai] Yarnall and Eliza Hudson preached,\\nH. M. Y. prayed, then Jemmy Pemberton was\\nmarried.\\nThe bride s name is not mentioned in this\\nsimple record of an all-important event but\\nit is evident that this was Hannah Lloyd, the\\nfirst of James Pemberton s three wives, as\\nJohn Smith speaks of spending the evening\\nat Hannah Lloyd s with the new married\\ncouple,^ this being the only festivity recorded.\\nA more cheerful Friend s wedding was that\\nof Elliston Perot, which w^as described in\\ndetail by Mrs. Warder, for the benefit of her\\nEnglish relatives A pouring wet night and\\ndull morning presented but a bad prospect for\\nElliston Perot s wedding guests. However,\\nwe having the use of George Emlen s carriage,\\nit was not of much consequence to us, further\\nthan getting into meeting to which there were\\nnot less than a dozen steps from the street and\\nthese in bad w^eather so muddy as to be quite\\nuncomfortable. Met at the door Richard and\\nNancy Vaux. W^hen we got in found most of\\nthe wedding company there. Cousin Betsy\\nRoberts first said a few w^ords, then honest\\nRobert Wills, after which Betsy appeared in\\nsupplication, then was followed by a long\\nand fine testimony by William Savery. After\\nwhich the bride and groom performed, the\\nlatter exceedingly well and the former not very\\nbadly. Meeting early closed, at least when\\nthe pair had signed and certificate was read,\\nthe woman taking upon her her husband s\\n89", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nname. We went to Elliston s house but little\\ndistance from the meeting and I soon felt very\\ncomfortable \\\\vith several of my old acquaint-\\nances, among them Abijah and Sally Dawes,\\nJohn and Anna Clifford with many others, in\\nall 48.\\nWe were ushered up stairs where w^ere\\nbedrooms in order, to receive us, having fires\\nin most part of the house.\\nCake and wine were early handed the\\nBride s brother Joey Sansom brought the lat-\\nter in two decanters on a waiter with Bitters\\nand glasses, his sister going to take some an\\naccident happened that spilt it all over her\\n^vedding garment, for which I felt much less\\nthan for the poor young man whose embar-\\nrassment was very great. Our next disaster\\nproved a discovery that the black paint off the\\nscirting board in every part of the house came\\noff. Some gowns looked almost ruined but I\\ndid not thoroughly examine mine, not w^ishing\\nto be made uneasy about anything of the kind.\\nAt 2 o clock we were summoned down to\\ndinner, time having passed till then in agree-\\nable conversation, all very sociable, though\\nsome, and indeed many entire strangers to\\nme, till from enquiring I found who they were,\\nand discovered most related to some I was\\nacquainted with.\\nAll the Company sat at one horse-shoe\\ntable except cousins John Head, Jacob Dow^n-\\ning, and Billy Sansom, who were groomsmen\\nand waited on us.\\n90", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nThe bridesmaids were Sally Drinker,* her\\nCousin Betty Drinker, and a young woman\\nnamed Sykes. Jacob Downing has long courted\\nthe former and it is now likely to be a match\\nin the Spring, report says. She is a very\\ncheerful, clever girl and he an agreeable young\\nman.\\nWe had a plentiful plain entertainment,\\nalmost all things that the season provided.\\nAfter being all satisfied we adjourned up stairs\\nand chatted away the afternoon, moving from\\none room to another as inclination took us.\\nThe young folks w^ere innocently cheerful\\nand the old ones not less so.\\nThey made tea in another room and sent\\nto us. About 9 we were called to supper,\\nwhich was mostly the fragments, w^ith the ad-\\ndition of a few hot partridges, less pastry and\\nsuch like than I have ever seen on such occa-\\nsions. After all had sufficiently satisfied them-\\nselves, a general remove took place and the\\nhouse soon seemed cleared.\\nSally Dawes went with us in Sally Em-\\nlen s carriage and so to her home. We sat\\ndown and related some particulars and then\\nretired.\\nThe next day Lydia, Sally, Nelly Parker,\\nHannah Wills and myself calling for Sucky\\nHead v/ent to visit the bride. We were first\\nSally Drinker was a daughter of Elizabeth, the diarist,\\nfrom whose record we learn that the course of Jacob\\nDowning s true love ran smooth, as he spoke to H. D.\\non account of Sally, and they were married May 15, 1787,\\n91", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nushered into the small parlor to take off our\\nbonnets, for which purpose the bridesmaids\\nand groomsmen attended, when the latter\\nhanded each of us up to the bride with a great\\ndeal of form.\\nWe then seated ourselves about ten had\\ngot there before us, and in an hour we mus-\\ntered full forty, many that I knew Polly and\\nMolly Sykes, Sally Rawle, Peggy Wharton,\\nNancy Drinker, Sally Pleasants, Sally Gilpin^\\nher brother Joshua, Isaac Pleasants, Gideon\\nW^ills, Jerry and Richard Parker, with many\\nothers. There was a freedom and ease in\\nmost of the Company that destroyed every\\nidea of form.\\nThe conversation was not general, but\\ndividing into little parties all seemed lively.\\nTea was made and handed after which the\\nthree young women in office joined us. The\\nmen assisting to wait were also at liberty to\\nchat with the rest after that was over. Sally\\nconducted herself very becoming and with\\ngreat ease, moving her seat repeatedly to con-\\nverse amongst us all.\\nThis ceremony lasting a week must be\\nvery fatiguing, and I should think very dis-\\nagreeable to both Bride and Groom, but cus-\\ntoms long established are not very easy broke\\nthrough.\\nMrs. W^arder s chronicle is valuable, not\\nonly because it gives a faithful picture of the\\nlife of the time, but also because it proves that\\na considerable amount of form and ceremony\\n92", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwas observed by Friends, even if their usages\\nwere not those of the gay world.\\nAnother wedding feast, and one that caused\\nMrs. Warder some scruples of conscience,\\nwas given by Dr. James Hutchinson. At first\\nthe Friendly lady hesitated, as Dr. Hutchin-\\nson had been married to his Quaker bride by\\na priest but, being fond of seeing life in the\\nNew World, and finding that others made\\nno distinction calling the first three morn-\\nings to drink punch with the groom, and the\\nnext week drinking tea with the bride, Mrs.\\nWarder attended the dinner. Here she found\\na large company, a superb entertainment, and\\nafterwards enjoyed a spirited discussion upon\\ndress, w^hich goes to prove that even the garb\\nof a Quaker woman may afford food for con-\\nversation.\\nThis marriage of Dr. Hutchinson to a sweet\\ngirl many years younger than himself, and\\nthat of Margaret Rawle to Isaac Wharton, he\\nbeing full double her age, and she esteemed\\none of the best girls here, caused Mrs.\\nWarder to reflect seriously upon the pitch\\nthey are got to for husbands in this country\\nnor does the fact that Dr. Hutchinson and Mr.\\nWharton were redeemed from their des-\\npicable state of bachelorhood by this step\\nThe sweet girl, to whom Dr. Hutchinson was mar-\\nried in 1786, was Sydney Howeli, his second wife. Dr.\\nHutchinson s first wife was Lydia Biddle, a sister of Col-\\nonel Clement Biddle.\\n93", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nreconcile Mrs. Warder to the discrepancy in\\nage of these couples.\\nMarriages out of meeting were every\\nyear becoming more frequent, which is not\\nto be wondered at, as the Quaker girls were\\ndescribed by all travellers as lovely and charm-\\ning. Monsieur de Liancourt wrote of them in\\nthe latter part of the century Gay colours\\nplease the young Quaker ladies and are in-\\ndeed great enemies of the sect. The toilette\\nis the subject of much uneasiness to the old\\npeople, whether prohibited or tolerated by\\nthem. But whether prohibited or not, the\\nyoung and handsome Quaker-girls will sacri-\\nfice to the toilette, and call themselves Half-\\nQuakers and it must be confessed, they are\\nthe greatest favourites with our sex.\\nDespite the endearing charms of young\\nQuakeresses, Governor John Penn, grandson\\nof the Proprietary, married Miss Ann Allen,\\na daughter of William Allen, Chief Justice of\\nthe Province, whose connection with the Ham-\\niltons, added to the prominent position of her\\nown family, made her a most desirable parti.\\nMrs. John Penn is described by an uncle of\\nher husband as possessing good sense, great\\nsweetness of temper, and prudence, to which\\nmay be added, if we may trust contempora-\\nneous descriptions, a fair share of good looks.\\nThis combination of attractions seems more\\nthan Governor John Penn had reason to ex-\\npect, his early life having been clouded by a\\nmesalliajtce, or what his family chose to consider\\n94", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nas such, while his personal appearance as de-\\nscribed in a letter of the time does not seem\\nto have been impressive. George Roberts, in\\na letter to Samuel Powel, then in London,\\nwrites His honor Penn is a little gentleman,\\nthough he may govern equal to one seven foot\\nhigh.\\nRichard Penn, who was a far greater favorite\\nin Pennsylvania than his brother John, had so\\nfar renounced Quakerism as to become the first\\nPresident of the Jockey Club, and to be married\\nat Christ Church to Miss Polly Masters. Miss\\nMasters, who was only a little over sixteen at\\nthe time of her marriage, in May, 1772, was\\nliving with her mother in her home on the\\nsouth side of Market, between Fifth and Sixth\\nStreets. This house, which Mrs. Masters\\nconveyed to her daughter two days before her\\nmarriage, was afterwards occupied by General\\nHowe, and later by General Benedict Arnold,\\nby the French Consul, M. Holker, and by\\nRobert Morris, who bought the house some-\\ntime prior to 1787.* During the sessions of\\nthe Convention of 1787, General Washington\\nstayed with Mr. Morris in this house, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0when the seat of government was removed\\nfrom New York to Philadelphia, it w^as con-\\nsidered the most suitable building in the city\\nfor the residence of the Chief Executive, al-\\nA fire broke out in this house in 1780, during M.\\nHolker s residence, and nothing but the first floor was\\nsaved. After Mr. Morris bought the house, he rebuilt and\\nenlarged it.\\n95", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthough Mr. Twining described it as a small\\nred brick house next door to a hair-dresser.\\nMr. and Mrs. Morris occupied a house at the\\ncorner of Sixth and Market, on the same side\\nof the street.\\nAlthough the President and his private sec-\\nretary, Mr. Tobias Lear, had entered into an\\napparently exhaustive correspondence upon\\nthe furnishing of this establishment, from\\ndravying-room mirrors to mangles for the\\nkitchen, there \u00e2\u0096\u00a0were doubtless many matters\\nof household and domestic economy that re-\\nmained to be discussed by Mrs. Washington\\nand Mrs. Morris. Mrs. Washington had com-\\nplained in her letters of the restraints of her\\nlife in New York but in her letters from Phila-\\ndelphia we find no such expressions. In addi-\\ntion to the men and vi^omen who had come to\\nthe capital with the administration, the Presi-\\ndent and Mrs. Washington numbered many\\nfriends among the resident population of Phila-\\ndelphia.\\nChief among their friends w^ere the members\\nof the Morris family. The President and Robert\\nMorris had been fast friends during the long\\nw^ar, and to him and his partner, Mr. Thomas\\nWilling, the Commander-in-Chief had often\\nturned for aid when the financial resources of\\nthe Congress were at the lowest ebb. For both\\nof these gentlemen the President entertained\\na sincere regard, while Mrs. Washington and\\nMrs. Morris in this time of peace renewed\\ntheir friendship formed during the anxious days\\n96", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof the Revolution. These two ladies seem to\\nhave been most congenial in their tastes,\\nvisiting one another informally and frequently\\ndriving together, while the young people of\\nthe two families were upon intimate terms.\\nMrs. Washington s granddaughter, Nellie\\nCustis, -was always with her, and at times her\\nt wo elder grandchildren, Eliza and Martha\\nParke Custis. In a letter written April 5, 1795,\\nMrs. Washington says that the girls were going\\nto Miss Morris s wedding the next Thursday.\\nThis was Hetty Morris, the eldest daughter of\\nRobert Morris, who married James Marshall,\\nof Virginia, a brother of Chief-Justice Mar-\\nshall.\\nThe fair faces of Hetty Morris and her sister\\nMaria, afterwards the wife of Henry Nixon,\\nhave been preserved for this generation by the\\nbrush of Stuart. This portrait represents two\\ngirls seated before a chess-board, from which\\ntheir eyes have wandered to look out from the\\ncanvas, v/ith the innocence and serene hope-\\nfulness of girlhood, which are among its pecu-\\nliar charms, and which Stuart knew so well\\nhow to portray.\\nThe Treasurer of the United States, Samuel\\nMeredith, lived nearly opposite the State\\nHouse, at 171 Chestnut Street. An old friend-\\nship existed between the President and the\\nMeredith family, and while in Philadelphia,\\nbefore the Revolution, attending the meetings\\nof the Jockey Club, Washington had stopped\\nwith Mr. Reese Meredith, the father of Samuel\\n7 97", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMeredith, and in a letter written by Mrs.\\nMeredith to her husband some years earher\\nshe says General Washington invited him-\\nself to breakfast with me yesterday. Tom\\nand the girls were at table, and behaved ex-\\ntremely well. It is observed the General is\\nvery grave. I do not w^onder at it. A man\\nof his reflection must feel strongly our present\\nunhappy situation. This letter was evidently\\nwritten during the sessions of the Convention\\nof 1787, when General ^Vashington is said to\\nhave been, at times, greatly discouraged with\\nregard to the result of its deliberations. In\\nthe letter, which is chiefly taken up with\\nfamily matters, Mrs. Meredith speaks of the\\nstrict economy that she is exercising in order\\nto give her children educational advantages.\\nThis need for economy was probably due to\\nthe depreciation of the Continental currency,\\nas General Meredith had advanced large sums\\nof money for the support of the government\\nduring the Revolution, and was one of the chief\\ncontributors to the Bank of North America.\\nThese loans are said to have amounted to\\n$140,000.\\nIn a diary, kept during his visit to Philadel-\\nphia in 1787, General Washington recorded\\nmany tea-drinkings and evenings spent at the\\nMerediths Although not generally spoken of\\nas sociable in his tastes, Washington seems to\\nhave been somewhat addicted to tea-drinkings,\\nas during this visit we find frequent mention\\nof drinking tea with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel\\n98", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nPowel, with Mr. Tench Francis, in a large\\ncircle, with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr.\\nGeorge Clymer, Mr. Francis Hopkinson, Miss\\nCadwalader, and at Dr. Shippen s with Mrs.\\nLivingston s party.\\nThe Washington chariot was often to be\\nseen on its w^ay to Lansdowne to the Penns\\nand afterwards to visit the Binghams in the\\nsame place, or to Belmont, the country-seat\\nof Judge Peters. Most cordial relations ex-\\nisted between the Washington family and the\\nChews, the younger daughters of the house\\nbeing especial favorites of the President and\\nMrs. Washington. The former, in his Phila-\\ndelphia diary of 1787, recorded that he dined\\nat Mrs. Chew s with the wedding guests.\\nThis was the wedding of Miss Peggy Chew,\\nwho married Colonel John Eager Howard, of\\nMaryland. Mr. Benjamin Chew w^as then\\nliving at no South Third Street.\\nOther friends of the President and Mrs.\\nWashington, living on Third Street, were\\nColonel and Mrs. John Cox, of Bloomsbury,\\nNew Jersey. Colonel Cox had rendered good\\nservice to the Continental Army as Assistant\\nQuartermaster under General Greene, the\\nlatter having made the appointment of John\\nCox and Charles Pettit to serve under him a\\ncondition of his acceptance of the position of\\nThis was Dr. William Shippen s daughter, Anne Hume\\nShippen, who married Henry Beekman Livingston, of New\\nYork, a son of Robert R. Livingston.\\n99\\nE\u00c2\u00ab#670.", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nQuartermaster-General. Colonel Cox not only\\nhelped to provision the patriot army, but also\\nsupplied it with a large amount of ordnance\\nfrom his foundry at Batisto, New Jersey. At\\nhis country-seat near Bloomsbury, General\\nWashington had his head-quarters for a time,\\nand here the Marquis de Lafayette and Ro-\\nchambeau also enjoyed the hospitality of Col-\\nonel Cox s home, where they had the pleasure\\nof conversing in their own language with Mrs.\\nCox s French aunts, the Demoiselles Cheva-\\nlier.\\nColonel Cox brought his family to Philadel-\\nphia about 1791, and in this city Mrs. Cox w^as\\ngreatly beloved and admired. One evening,\\nat a ball, a gentleman said to Colonel Cox,\\nindicating a young matron in the company,\\nW^ho is that angel of a w^oman? My\\nwife, promptly replied the proud husband.\\nUpon one occasion, when Bishop White met\\nMrs. Cox upon the street, he said, quite\\nseriously, Did you know, my dear madam,\\nthat a woe was pronounced upon you in the\\nBible The fair lady appearing rather sur-\\nprised, the genial Bishop added, Woe unto\\nyou when all men speak ^vell of you.\\nThe home of Judge Peters, at Belmont,\\nwhich v^^as situated upon a high bluff over-\\nlooking the Schuylkill, was a frequent resort\\nof the President. The society of this versa-\\ntile and humorous jurist, whose witty sayings\\nas well as his substantial aid had served to\\nbrighten some of the darkest hours of the war,\\nzoo", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwas most agreeable to Washington, who, de-\\nspite his habitual gravity, thoroughly enjoyed\\na joke.\\nThe Marquis de Chastellux described a\\ndinner at Mr. James Wilson s, where Mr.\\nPeters, then Secretary of W^ar, was the life of\\nthe circle, singing songs of his ow^n composi-\\ntion and an Italian cantabile with equal\\ncharm. Judge Peters perpetrated many don-\\nmots, but none of his own sayings were more\\nincisive than a speech made about him when he\\nwent to London, as one of the delegates sent\\nby the General Convention of the Protestant\\nEpiscopal Church, to confer w^ith the English\\nbishops with regard to granting the episcopacy\\nto the new States. It appears that Mr. Peters\\nwas frequently the spokesman for the delega-\\ntion, and one of the bishops said in alluding to\\ntheir conferences, We found him a delight-\\nful companion, a most well-bred gentleman,\\nan accomplished scholar, and extremely well\\ninformed on every possible subject, except\\nupon the one for Tvhich he came to England.\\nThat this delegation succeeded in its object\\nredounds to the credit of the learned jurist,\\nwho spoke v/ell, even if he was not informed\\nupon all points of divinity. Of Judge Peters,\\nit w^as said in this connection that he was,\\nlike Lord Eldon, one of the buttresses of the\\nchurch, rather than one of the pillars, giving\\nhis support from the outside.\\nDuring Mr. Peters s visit to England he dined\\nat Mr. Adams s, who was then in London\\nlOZ", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nrepresenting the United States. Mrs. Adams\\nhanded him some letters ^A; hen he entered the\\ndrawing-room, and described him as carrying\\nthem to the light, breaking the seals, and ex-\\nclaiming as he threw them on the table, Not\\none from my wife I have lost tvo letters\\nfrom her. The devil I would rather have\\nfound two lines from her than ten folios from\\nanyone else.\\nThis little story goes to prove that Mr.\\nPeters was very much attached to the pretty\\nQuaker girl whom he had married during the\\nwar. This young lady, Miss Sally Robinson,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was a ward of General Anthony Wayne, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0when he wrote to her in August, 1776, asking\\nwhether he should address her as Miss\\nor by the fond familiar name she once was\\nknown by, she promptly replied that when he\\nwrote his letter it was Miss, but in the\\ninterim it had been changed to something\\nelse, and that she \\\\vas as violent a Whig as\\nhe could wish, which, she added, you will\\nnot be surprised at when you recolect with\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0whome I have engaged to tread the Chequer d\\npaths of life, his [Mr. Peters s] sentiments is\\nwell known, and had I been a tory it would be\\nin his power to convert me, but that you know\\nI never was.\\nAnother genial humorist, some years older\\nthan Judge Peters, was Francis Hopkinson,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2who was appointed by the President one of\\nthe Judges for the district of Pennsylvania.\\nThis position Mr. Hopkinson held but a short\\n102", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntime, as he died early in the administration.\\nHis son, Joseph Hopkinson, the author of\\nHail Columbia, was later given a similar\\nposition by President John Quincy Adams.\\nMr. Joseph Hopkinson was upon terms of\\ngreat intimacy with Mr. Hamilton and with\\nhis successor in the Treasury, Oliver Wolcott,\\nafter whom he named one of his sons. In\\nspeaking of delightful evenings passed at Mr.\\nWolcott s, Judge Hopkinson said, When I\\nmention such names as Ellsworth, Ames,\\nGriswold, Goodrich, and Tracy, you may\\nimagine w^hat a rich, intellectual society it\\nwas. I w^ill not say that we have no such\\nmen now, but I do not know v^here they are.\\nMiss Sally McKean, the daughter of Chief-\\nJustice McKean, wrote with enthusiasm of\\nMrs. Washington s first reception in Phila-\\ndelphia, held on Christmas night and Mrs.\\nJohn Adams has left one of her brilliant pen-\\npictures of the same scene.\\nIn her first letter written from the capital,\\nMrs. Adams was inclined to depreciate the\\nsocial attractions of Philadelphia in com-\\nparison w^ith those of New York she after-\\nwards spoke w^ith great admiration of the\\nsociety of the Quaker City. Perhaps Mrs.\\nAdams s earlier letters from Bush Hill were\\ncolored by the discomfort of her surroundings.\\nShe described herself as living in a house,\\ngreen painted, at which the painters were\\nstill at work when she arrived, with no fire\\nexcept in the kitchen. Mrs. Adams s woes,\\nzp3", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nv/hich were evidently real and tangible ones,\\ncan be best understood from her own ex-\\npressions\\nOn Friday we arrived here, and late on\\nSaturday evening we got our furniture in. On\\nSunday, Thomas was laid up with the rheu-\\nmatism on Monday, I \\\\vas obliged to give\\nLouisa an emetic on Tuesday, Mrs. Briesler\\nw^as taken with her old pain in her stomach\\nand, to complete the w^hole, on Thursday,\\nPolly was seized with a violent pleuritic fever.\\nShe has been tw^ice bled, a blister upon her\\nside, and has not been out of bed since, only\\nas she is taken up to have her bed made.\\nAnd every day, the stormy ones excepted,\\nfrom eleven until three, the house is filled v/ith\\nladies and gentlemen.\\nMrs. Adams adds that Mrs. Tobias Lear,\\nwife of one of the President s secretaries, has\\njust called to see her and administered the\\ncold comfort of telling her that she was better\\noff than Mrs. Washington would be w^hen\\nshe arrived, as the additions to her house\\nwould not be completed for a year. Last, but\\nnot least, Mrs. Adams had several of her best\\ngowns ruined on the voyage from Boston,\\nthe blessed effects of tumbling about the\\nw^orld. Poor Mrs. Knox, she says, is in\\nstill greater tribulation, as the vessel which\\nsailed w^ith her furniture on board has not\\nbeen heard of, although considerably overdue.\\nAfter thus freely pouring out her sorrows\\nto her sympathizing daughter, Mrs. Adams\\n104", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nassures her that she endures all these dis-\\ncomforts without repining, and frequently\\nemerges from the confusion of her household\\nto enjoy visits from Mrs. Bingham, Nancy\\nHamilton, and Mrs. Otis. She says that she\\nis thankful to have a decent room in which to\\nreceive these ladies, and is pleased to find Mrs.\\nBingham more amiable and beautiful than ever,\\nwhile our Nancy Hamilton is the same un-\\naffected affable girl we formerly knew her.\\nA few w^eeks later Mrs. Adams wrote of a\\ndance at the Chew^s a supper at Mr. Clymer s,\\nand various festivities, including an Assembly\\nball, attended by the President and Madam,\\nthe Vice-President and Madam, Ministers of\\nState and their Madams, etc. I should,\\nshe says, spend a very dissipated winter,\\nif I were to accept of one-half the invitations\\nI receive, particularly to the routes, and tea\\nand cards. Even Saturday evening is not\\nexcepted, and I refused an invitation of that\\nkind for this evening.\\nThis was Ann Hamilton, daughter of the third Andrews\\nHamilton and his Jewish wife, Abigail Franks, and great-\\ngranddaughter of the counsellor, whose able and brilliant\\ndefence of the liberty of the press in the John Peter\\nZenger trial, in New York, made proverbial the ability of\\nthe Philadelphia lawyer. Miss Ann Hamilton became the\\nwife of James Lyle, of Philadelphia, in 1792. Although\\nthe Hamilton name has disappeared from Philadelphia\\nlife, the family is still represented by Mrs. James Lyle s\\ndescendants under the names of Morris, Kuhn, Evans,\\nand Mahan in America, and in England by Becketts,\\nBruces, and Whichcotes.\\n105", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAlthough this daughter of the Puritans was\\nopposed to festivities on Saturday evenings,\\nshe was not averse to theatre-going, as she\\nv/rote that the managers had very civilly\\nplaced a box at the disposal of the Vice-\\nPresident which he had promised to use\\nwhenever the President v/ished to attend the\\ntheatre. Last Wednesday, Mrs. Adams\\nsays, we were all there. The house is\\nequal to most of the theatres we meet w^ith\\nout of France. It is very neat, and prettily\\nfitted up; the actors did their best; The\\nSchool for Scandal was the play. I missed\\nthe divine Farren but upon the w^hole it w^as\\nvery well performed.\\nA younger and less experienced observer of\\nthese gay scenes w^as Miss Charlotte Cham-\\nbers, v/ho wrote to her mother from Philadel-\\nphia of the many delights of the capital. Miss\\nChambers was so fortunate as to be taken to\\ndrive by Mrs. Washington, with whom she had\\nmuch pleasant conversation, and for whom\\nshe entertained a warm admiration. To the\\neyes of an unsophisticated girl, fresh from\\nher quiet home in Chambersburg, with its\\nmany Scotch Presbyterian restrictions, an\\nAssembly ball must have seemed equal to the\\nmost elaborate function at the Court of St.\\nJames.\\nIn describing a ball given on the President s\\nbirthday, Miss Chambers dvv^ells upon the con-\\ntrast presented by the rich elegance of Mrs.\\nWashington s attire, and the elaborate orna-\\nio6", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nments, feathers, and jewels worn by the wives\\nof the foreign ambassadors, whose costumes\\nglittered from the floor to the summit of\\ntheir head-dress.\\nAlthough the capital was a gay whirl of\\ndelight to the village girl, she was discrimi-\\nnating in her estimates, and never seemed to\\nhave had her wise little head turned by all\\nthe attention she received. She wrote to her\\nmother of dining at Mrs. John Nicholson s, of\\nspending the evening at Mrs. Madison s, and\\nof walks -with Miss Binney, during which they\\nmet Augustus Muhlenberg, Septimus Clay-\\npole, and General Scott, of Kentucky. The\\nlatter gentleman had just called upon Miss\\nChambers and Miss Binney to propose a party\\nto Gray s Gardens, a favorite pleasure resort\\non the Schuylkill River. Miss Chambers evi-\\ndently enjoyed the society of the Kentucky\\ngentleman, as she recorded the fact that he\\nhad an extensive acquaintance, great original-\\nity, and was constantly endeavoring to vary\\nand increase their amusements. Admired and\\nfeted as she was in this city, Miss Chambers\\n\\\\vas not destined to marry a Philadelphian.\\nShe became the wife of Israel Ludlow in 1796,\\nand was w^ith him a pioneer in the settlement\\nof Ohio.\\nBalls were always given on the President s\\nbirthday. Mr. Isaac Weld, in his travels,\\nspeaks of one birthday, w^hen Washington\\nreceived from eleven o clock in the morning\\nuntil three in the afternoon in the large parlors\\n107", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\non the first floor of his house, while Mrs.\\nWashington received in her drawing-room up-\\nstairs. After this long day in company, the\\nPresident and his wife attended a ball in the\\nevening, which was held this year at Rick-\\nett s riding place, on Chestnut Street above\\nSixth.\\nIn speaking of one of Mrs. Washington s\\ndrawing-rooms, Mr. Adams said: As the\\nevening was fair and mild, there was a great\\ncircle of ladies and a greater of gentlemen.\\nGeneral Wayne w^as there in glory. This\\nman s feelings must be w^orth a guinea a min-\\nute. The Pennsylvanians claim him as theirs,\\nand show him a marked respect. This was\\nwhen General Wayne returned from his suc-\\ncessful expedition against the Indians on the\\nbanks of the Miami, after an absence of three\\nyears. The victorious General was met by\\nthree troops of Light Horse, by v^^hich he was\\nescorted into the city amid the ringing of bells,\\nthe firing of salutes from the Centre Square,\\nand other demonstrations of joy on the part\\nof the thousands of citizens who crowded the\\nstreets to ^A7elcome the hero of the hour.\\nWhen Mr. Jefferson lived in Philadelphia, he\\nshowed his preference for rural life by estab-\\nlishing himself near Gray s Ferry. In a letter\\nwritten to Mrs. Randolph he says V/e are\\nin sight both of Bartram s and Gray s gardens,\\nbut have the river between them and us. He\\nspeaks of sauntering on the banks of the\\nSchuylkill with his younger daughter, Maria,\\n1 08", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Colonel Joliu Cox\\nPage 99\\nMajor-General Anthony Wayne", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "4", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwho was in the habit of spending her Sundays\\nout-of-doors with him.\\nThe life of the Secretary of State was not,\\nat this time, marked by the extreme simplicity\\nthat his latter-day followers claim for him, as\\nhe kept five horses, and in addition to his\\nFrench steward. Petit, and his daughter s\\nmaid, had four or five men-servants in his\\nestablishment.\\nMr. Jefferson, whose tastes were scientific\\nand literary, found much more to interest him\\nin the social life of Philadelphia than in that\\nof New York. Here, in addition to the distin-\\nguished men gathered together from the differ-\\nent States of the Union, w^as a congenial circle\\ncomposed of members of the Philosophical\\nSociety, over which Mr. Jefferson was destined\\nto preside later. In this circle were those noted\\nfor wit, geniality, and charm of manner, as well\\nas for learning, such men as the Reverend\\nWilliam White and Dr. Ashbel Green, both\\nChaplains of Congress Dr. Abercrombie, Dr.\\nBlackwell, Dr. \\\\Ai^illiam Smith, Provost of the\\nCollege of Philadelphia, Dr. Benjamin Rush,\\nDr. Caspar Wistar, and Mr. John Vaughan,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0who was a warm personal friend of Mr. Jeffer-\\nson s, although opposed to him in politics.\\nWilliam Bartram, who, like his father, John\\nBartram, was an enthusiastic botanist, was a\\nnear neighbor of Mr. Jefferson s, although, as\\nhe says, separated by the Schuylkill. Mr.\\nBartram s botanical garden w^as a source of\\nmuch pleasure to Mr. Jefferson, who w^rote to\\nZ09", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nhis son-in-law for seeds for Mr. Bartram,\\nbeing especially anxious to give him those of\\nthe Kentucky coffee tree.\\nDavid Rittenhouse was then President of\\nthe Philosophical Society, and his nephews,\\nBenjamin Smith Barton, Professor of Natural\\nHistory in the College of Philadelphia, and\\nJudge William Barton, who made the design\\nfor the seal of the United States,* vi^ere asso-\\nciated with him in this learned institution.\\nFor the genius of Rittenhouse the Virginia\\nstatesman had a sincere admiration indeed,\\nthe language used by him in speaking of the\\nastronomer s ability seems almost extrava-\\ngant: As an artist, said Mr. Jefferson, he\\nhas exhibited as great a proof of mechanical\\ngenius as the world has ever produced. He\\nhas not, indeed, made a world, but he has by\\nAs there has been considerable discussion with regard\\nto the Great Seal of the United States, it is interesting to\\nknow that letters in possession of members of the Bar-\\nton family, in the handwriting of Mr. Barton, Charles\\nThomson, Secretary of Congress, and General Washing-\\nton, prove that Mr. Barton s design w^as accepted and is\\nthe one now in use. General Washington wrote at length,\\ncomplimenting Mr. Barton upon his design, and the Sec-\\nretary of Congress said, in a letter written to Mr. Barton,\\nJune 24, 1782, I enclose you a copy of the device by\\nw^hich you have displayed your skill in heraldic science,\\nwhich meets with general approbation.\\nIn 1789 William Barton was nominated by President\\nWashington one of the Judges of the Western Territory.\\nThe Flag of the United States and other National\\nFlags, by George Henry Preble, pp. 690-693.)\\nxxo", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Judge William Barton\\nBy Charles Willson Peale", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nimitation approached nearer its Maker than\\nany man who has lived, from the creation to\\nthis day.\\nThis was in allusion to the celebrated plane-\\ntarium of Rittenhouse, usually called the\\nOrrery, of w^hich Joel Barlow in his Co-\\nlumbiad wrote in much the same strain as\\nMr. Jefferson\\nSee the sage Rittenhouse, with ardent eye\\nLift the long tube and pierce the starry sky\\nClear in his view the circling systems roll,\\nAnd broader splendors gild the central pole.\\nHe marks w^hat laws the eccentric wanderers bind,\\nCopies creation in his forming mind.\\nDavid Rittenhouse, a self-taught mathema-\\ntician, the son of a farmer of Norriton Town-\\nship, whose instruction w^as gained from some\\nbooks and tools left him by an uncle, was one\\nof the most remarkable men of his time. Read-\\ning of young Rittenhouse covering the handle\\nof his plough, the fences, or whatever came\\nnearest to him in the course of his farm work,\\nwith mathematical calculations, we are re-\\nminded of another Pennsylvania boy who drew\\npictures in the pauses of his ploughing, and of\\nstill another youth, across the water among\\nthe hills of Scotland, w^ho brightened his daily\\ntask by singing of the wee crimson-tipped\\nflower that v/as turned up in the furrow. The\\ngenius of Rittenhouse, like that of his brothers\\nin art and poetry, although united to extreme\\nmodesty, was of the kind that could not be\\nsuppressed by obstacles and difficulties. The\\nziz", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nelder Rittenhouse much preferred to have his\\nson remain upon his farm, but wisely yielded\\nto his importunities and allo-wed him to enter\\nupon philosophical and mechanical pursuits,\\ngiving him money to purchase such tools as\\nwere necessary for his work. Afterwards the\\nReverend Thomas Barton, who married a\\nsister of Mr. Rittenhouse, and went to England\\nin 1754, brought his brother-in-law a number\\nof scientific books. At the age of seventeen,\\nyoung Rittenhouse constructed a ^vooden clock\\nof very ingenious \\\\vorkmanship. The cele-\\nbrated Orrery was completed some years\\nlater.\\nMr. Rittenhouse, being known as the best\\nmathematician in the Colonies, was appointed\\nto settle the limits between New York and\\nNew Jersey, and to draw a still more momen-\\ntous boundary line, that between Pennsyl-\\nvania and Maryland, known as the Mason and\\nDixon s line.\\nWith men so learned among its citizens,\\nand with an association as interesting to\\nscientists as the Philosophical Society, it is\\nnot strange that many foreigners of distinction\\ncame to Philadelphia. Dr. Joseph Priestley\\nwas at the capital during some months of the\\nsecond administration, living on High Street,\\nr^ where Mr. Twining visited him. Mr. Adams\\nwrote to his wife of dining with Dr. Priestley\\nat the President s, where the English guest\\nenunciated a doctrine as pleasing to the learned\\nas to the gay, which was that old age was\\n112", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "M:, William Barton\\nBy Charles Willsoii Peale\\nPage 213", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe pleasantest part of life, and that he had\\nfound it so.\\nDuring the first summer of the second\\nadministration the dreaded scourge of yellow-\\nfever visited Philadelphia with great severity.\\nMrs. Drinker recorded in her diary under date\\nof August 23, 1793\\nA Fever prevails in the City, particularly\\nin Water St. between Race and Arch Sts. of\\nye malignant kind; numbers have died of it.\\nSome say it -was occasioned by damaged\\nCoffee and Fish, Tvhich were stored at W\\nSmiths others say it w^as imported in a\\nVessel from Cape Franco is, w^hich lay at our\\nwharf, or at ye wharf back our store. Doctor\\nHutchinson is ordered by ye Governor to\\nenquire into ye report. He found, as tis said,\\nupwards of 70 persons sick in that square of\\ndifferent disorders several of this putrid or\\nbilious fever. Some are ill in Water St.\\nbetween Arch and Market Sts. and some in\\nRace Street. Tis really an alarming and\\nserious time.\\nH. S. D. [Henry S. Drinker] has brought\\nthe Books up to the House, that he may be\\nas little as possible in ye lower street.\\nMr. Jefferson wrote on September 2 A\\nmalignant fever has been generated in the\\nfilth of the docks of Philadelphia, which has\\ngiven great alarm. It is considerably infec-\\ntious. At first it was confined to Water\\nStreet, but it is now in many parts of the\\ncity. A little later, Mr. Jefferson, who was\\n8 113", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndetained in the stricken city by important\\npublic affairs, wrote: The President goes\\noff the day after tomorrow, as he had always\\nintended, Knox then takes flight. Hamilton\\nis ill of the fever, as is said. Poor Hutcheson\\ndined with me on Friday sennight, was taken\\nthat day on his return home and died the day\\nbefore yesterday. It is difficult to say Avhether\\nrepublican interest has suffered more by his\\ndeath or Genet s extravagance.\\nThis was the distinguished Dr. James Hutch-\\ninson. Another public-spirited man who lost\\nhis life at this time was Jonathan Dickinson\\nSergeant, who was associated with Dr. Hutch-\\ninson and others in an effort to discover the\\ncause of the prevailing epidemic, as well as to\\ncare for the sick and dying.\\nThe President, with his usual disregard of\\nhis own safety and comfort, expressed his\\ndesire to stay at his post and send Mrs.\\nWashington and her grandchildren to Mount\\nVernon. The resolute little lady, however,\\nrefused to be sent away without her husband,\\nalthough, as Washington wrote to Tobias\\nLear, their house was in a manner blockaded\\nby the disorder, and was becoming every day\\nmore fatal. Finally, not being willing to\\nsubject Mrs. Washington and the children to\\nthe danger of infection any longer, the Presi-\\ndent, with his family, set out for Mount Ver-\\nnon on the loth of September.\\nUpon his return to the capital, in November,\\nthe President took a house in Germantown,\\n114", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin which suburban resort many Philadelphians\\nhad taken refuge and members of Congress,\\nas they arrived from other States, gathered\\naround him. Mr. Jefferson, who reached Ger-\\nmantown early in November, speaks of the\\ncrowded state of the little town, where it\\nseemed impossible to lodge another person.\\nAs a great favor, he says, I have got a\\nbed in the corner of the public room of a\\ntavern, and must continue till some of the\\nPhiladelphians make a vacancy by moving\\ninto the city. Then we must give from 4 to\\n6 or 8 dollars a week for cuddies \u00e2\u0096\u00a0without a\\nbed, and sometimes without a chair or table.\\nThere is not a single lodging house in the\\nplace.\\nLater, Mr. Jefferson succeeded in securing\\nquarters for Mr. Madison and Mr. Monroe,\\ntelling them that they would have to mess at\\nthe tavern across the v^ay, as they all had to\\ndo. By the loth of November the fever had,\\nalmost entirely disappeared but the Presi-\\ndent remained in Germantown until the meet-\\ning of Congress, as Mr. Jefferson thought,\\nto furnish a rallying-point for the members.\\nThe refugee inhabitants, he says, are\\nvery generally returning into the City. Mr.\\nT. Shippen and lady are here. He is very\\nslowly getting better. Still confined to the\\nhouse. She is well and very hurley.\\nThe house selected for the residence of the\\nChief Executive, in the autumn of 1793, was\\none standing upon the west side of the Main\\nIIS", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nStreet opposite Market Square. This sub-\\nstantial mansion, with its garden, full of fine\\ntrees, running back to Greene Street, was then\\nowned by Colonel Isaac Franks, of the Conti-\\nnental Army.\\nAgain in the summer of 1794, the President\\noccupied this Germantown house from July\\nuntil late in September. It was during one, or\\nboth, of these residences in Germantown that\\nG. W. Parke Custis was entered among the\\nstudents of the old Academy at the corner of\\nSchool House Lane and Greene Street. The\\nAcademy and the house stand to-day, ap-\\nparently untouched by time and unchanged by\\nthe modern thirst for improvement, so called.\\nThe latter is the residence of Mr. Elliston\\nPerot Morris, a great-grandson of Samuel Mor-\\nris, Captain of the First Troop City Cavalry.\\nLooking through the grating into the garden,\\nit is not difficult to people the lovely shaded\\ngrounds with figures of the past. The Wash-\\ningtons w^ere so fond of an out-of-door life\\nthat we may believe that Mrs. Washington\\noften sat under one of these great trees, with\\nher knitting in her hands, surrounded by her\\ngrandchildren, while the stately figure of the\\nPresident was to be seen walking to and fro\\namong the shrubbery alone, engaged in earnest\\nthought or in the company of such asso-\\nciates in the government as Jefferson, Madi-\\nson, Monroe, and Hamilton; or with the great\\nPennsylvania lawyers, James W^ilson, Richard\\nPeters, William Rawle, Edward Tilghman,\\n116", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nf\\nAttorney-General Bradford, Edward Shippen,\\nWilliam Lewis, and Tench Francis; or fight-\\ning over again the battles of the Republic in\\nthe congenial company of General Knox, Col-\\nonel Cox, Clement Biddle, or Colonel Walter\\nStewart, whose father-in-law, Blair McClena-\\nchan, was a near neighbor, as he owned Mr.\\nChew s house, a little farther up on the Main\\nStreet.\\nChief-Justice Chew sold his country-seat,\\nCliveden, to Mr. McClenachan in 1779, because\\nhe and his family were so much distressed by\\nthe havoc wrought there during the battle of\\nGermantown that they did not wish to return\\nto it. Cliveden was afterwards repurchased\\nby its original owner, who was living there in\\n1797, as the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, who\\nleft America in 1798, speaks of visiting his good\\nold friend, Mr. Benjamin Chew, in his country\\nhome.\\nX17", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCHAPTER IV. SALONS GAY AND\\nGRAVE\\nFOR some months after the British oc-\\ncupation of Philadelphia, the lines of\\ndistinction between the Whig and Tory\\nladies were observed in the social life of the\\nchief city of the Colonies, these lines having\\nbeen defined by the absence from, or attend-\\nance of these ladies upon, certain entertain-\\nments given by the English officers. The\\nfollowing winter, a ball was given at the City\\nTavern to the young ladies who had mani-\\nfested their attachment to the cause of virtue\\nand freedom, by sacrificing every convenience\\nto the love of their country.\\nWhether incited to retaliation by this implied\\nreproach, or by General Wayne s caustic allu-\\nsion to the devotion of the Tory belles to the\\nheavenly, sw^eet, pretty redcoats, Rebecca\\nFranks, daring and original as she was beau-\\ntiful, dressed up a small dog in the colors then\\nworn in honor of the French alliance, and\\nhad it turned loose in the ball-room upon the\\noccasion of a grand ball given to Mrs. Wash-\\nington either by M. Gerard, or by the French\\nresidents of Philadelphia. Somewhat less\\nscathing were Miss Franks s practical jokes,\\nthan those inflicted by her tongue, for, like a\\nflash of lightning, it was impossible to tell\\nwhere her wit would strike one day General\\nxz8", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCharles Lee was jeered at about his sherry-\\nvallies, while upon another the British officer,\\nSir Henry Clinton, received a sharp rebuke\\nfrom this capricious lady.\\nChief among the Tory belles were Miss\\nFranks, beautiful Margaret Shippen, who\\nmarried Benedict Arnold, her sisters, Mary\\nand Sarah Shippen, the Chews, Cliftons,\\nRiches, Swifts, Redmans, Aliens, Bonds, and\\nHamiltons.\\nM. de Chastellux, who was in Philadelphia\\nin 1780 and 1781, speaks of an Assembly ball\\nfrom which the Tory ladies were excluded,\\none young lady present. Miss Footman, being\\nrather contraband, that is to say suspected\\nof not being a very good Whig. The names\\nof the dances, as described by the French\\ngentleman, could not have been particularly\\nagreeable to Tory ears, as they, he says, like\\nthe toasts w^e drink at table, have some rela-\\ntion to politics. One is called the success of\\nthe campaign, another, the defeat of Burgoyne,\\nand a third, Clinton s retreat.\\nWhig and Tory ladies may have stood aloof\\nfrom each other for a time, but connections by\\nblood or marriage, similarity of tastes and edu-\\ncation, and the limited area of the old city, all\\ntended to draw^ them together, and before the\\nwar v^as fairly over we find W^higs and Tories\\ndancing and drinking tea together in great har-\\nmony.\\nMrs. Samuel Shoemaker wrote from Phila-\\ndelphia to her husband, then in London, under\\n119", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndate of December, 1783: That set [the Tory\\nparty] have prudently determined, as they\\ncannot exist in retirement, either at Lans-\\ndowne or anywhere else out of public places,\\nto join the others, and Gov. [John] Penn and\\nlady, Mrs. Allen and mother and all their\\nformer intimates, are now as happy at Mrs.\\nStewart s, formerly M Clanachan, at the\\nFrench Minister s, or in any other Whig\\nSociety, as ever they were in the select circle\\nthey once were the principals of.\\nA social and international entertainment\\nthat brought together the various elements of\\nthe city, both grave and gay, was a superb ball\\ngiven by the French Minister, M. de la Lu-\\nzerne, to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin of\\nFrance. The ne^A^s of the advent of the ill-\\nstarred little Dauphin, which ^vas received with\\nwild demonstrations of joy by the fickle Parisian\\npopulace, w^as celebrated with great rejoicings\\nin America, in consequence of the friendly feel-\\ning that existed between the two nations, and\\nthe aid and support that the French were then\\ngiving to the struggling Republic.\\nGeneral Washington celebrated the event at\\nWest Point with a dinner, a dance, and fire-\\nworks, and w^as in Philadelphia with Count Ro-\\nchambeau by the 15th of July to participate in\\nthe entertainment given by the French Minister.\\nMr. Jacob Hiltzheimer and Mrs. Henry\\nDrinker both speak in their diaries of this\\nball. The former writes, under date of July\\n15, 1782 Great doings this evening at ye\\nZ20", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nFrench Ambassador s (who lives at John Dick-\\ninsons House up Chestnut St.) on account of\\nye birth of ye Dauphin of France feasting,\\nfireworks, c., for which they have been pre-\\nparing for some weeks.\\nThe house which was occupied by M. de la\\nLuzerne \\\\A^as the old mansion on Chestnut\\nStreet above Sixth, in which Mrs. Ferguson\\nonce held her literary gatherings. At this time\\nthe house belonged to Mr. John Dickinson,\\nfrom whom it was rented for the French Min-\\nister. Early in the next century it was the\\nresidence of Chief-Justice W^illiam Tilghman.\\nThis house, not being large enough for an\\nentertainment upon so grand a scale as that\\nplanned by M. de la Luzerne, he had a great\\nframe pavilion erected upon one side to serve\\nas a dancing-room. This pavilion, -whose deco-\\nrated ceiling was supported by pillars, was\\nopen upon all sides. From it the guests could\\nstep into the garden, where numerous seats\\nw^ere placed under the trees, and where pine\\nand cedar branches were arranged into arti-\\nficial groves and bow^ers.\\nTo give an idea of the magnitude of this\\nentertainment, a w^riter of the time recorded,\\namong other items, that M. de la Luzerne had\\nborrowed thirty cooks from the French army\\nto assist in providing an entertainment suited\\nto the size and dignity of the company.\\nThe 15th of July, the date named for the\\nFrench Minister s ball, was one of great ex-\\ncitement in the gay world of Philadelphia, and\\n121", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin the work-a-day world as well, tradesmen\\nof various kinds being in demand, and barbers\\nand hair-dressers in particular requisition.\\nThe shops were crowded with customers,\\nrelates an eye-witness of these scenes. Hair-\\ndressers w^ere retained tailors, milliners, and\\nmantua makers w^ere to be seen covered with\\nsweat and out of breath, in every street.\\nThe morning of this day w^as ushered in by a\\ncorps of hair-dressers, occupying the place of\\nthe city watchmen. Many ladies were obliged\\nto have their heads dressed between four and\\nsix o clock in the morning, so great was the\\ndemand and so numerous were the engage-\\nments this day of the gentlemen of the comb.\\nAt half past seven o clock was the time fixed\\nin the tickets for the meeting of the company.\\nThe approach of the hour was proclaimed by\\nthe rattling of all the carriages in the city.\\nAfter reading a description of this ball,\\nwritten by Dr. Benjamin Rush to a friend,\\nthe splendors of the famous Mischianza lose\\nsome of their radiance. In point of intellect-\\nual brilliancy, the Franco-Republican enter-\\ntainment far exceeded that given by the British\\nofficers, for here -was gathered a remarkable\\nassemblage of statesmen, w^arriors, and diplo-\\nmats. Dr. Rush says that forty tickets were\\nsent to the governor of each State, to be dis-\\ntributed by him to the principal officers and\\ngentlemen of his government, and an equal\\nnumber to General Washington, to be dis-\\ntributed to the principal officers of the army.\\n122", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAbout eight o clock, says the genial chron-\\nicler of this fete, our family consisting of\\nMrs. Rush, our cousin Susan Hall, our sister\\nSukey and myself, with our good neighbors\\nMrs. and Mr. Henry, entered the apartment\\nprovided for this splendid entertainment. W^e\\nv/ere received through a \u00e2\u0096\u00a0wide gate by the\\nminister and conducted by one of his family\\nto the dancing room. The scene now almost\\nexceeds description. The numerous lights\\ndistributed through the garden, the splendour\\nof the room we were approaching, the size of\\nthe company which w^as now collected and\\nwhich consisted of about 700 persons the\\nbrilliancy and variety of their dresses, and the\\nband of music which had just began to play,\\nformed a scene which resembled enchantment.\\nSukey Stockton said her mind was carried be-\\nyond and out of itself. We entered the room\\ntogether, and here w^e saw the world in min-\\niature. All the ranks, parties, and professions\\nin the city, and all the officers of government\\nw^ere fully represented in this assembly. Here\\nwere ladies and gentlemen of the most an-\\ncient as well as modern families. Here w^ere\\nSusannah Stockton, a sister of Mrs. Benjamin Rush\\nand of Richard, the signer, married Lewis Pintard, who\\nbelonged to a prominent Huguenot family of New Rochelle,\\nNew York. Another sister, Abigail Stockton, married Cap-\\ntain Pintard, a brother of Lewis Pintard. The Stockton\\nsisters all spent their girlhood at Morven, the old Stockton\\nmansion at Princeton, New Jersey, still standing and in\\nthe possession of the Stockton family.\\n123", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nlawyers, doctors and ministers of the gospel.\\nHere were the learned faculty of the college,\\nand among them many who knew^ not whether\\nCicero plead in Latin or in Greek or whether\\nHorace was a Roman or a Scotchman. Here\\nwere painters and musicians, poets and phi-\\nlosophers, and men who were never moved by\\nbeauty or harmony, or by rhyme or reason.\\nHere were merchants and gentlemen of inde-\\npendent fortunes, as well as many respectable\\nand opulent tradesmen. Here were whigs\\nand men who formerly bore the character of\\ntories. Here were the president and members\\nof congress, governors of states and generals\\nof armies ministers of finance and foreign\\naffairs. In a word the assembly was truly\\nrepublican. Here were to be seen heroes and\\npatriots in close conversation with each other.\\nWashington and Dickinson held several dia-\\nlogues together. Here were to be seen men\\nconversing with each other who had appeared\\nin all the different stages of the American war.\\nDickinson and Morris frequently reclined to-\\ngether against the same pillar. Here were to\\nbe seen states-men and warriors, from the\\nopposite ends of the continent, talking of the\\nhistory of the war in their respective states.\\nRutledge and Walton from the south, here\\nconversed with Lincoln and Duane from the\\neast and north. Here and there, too, appeared\\na solitary character walking among the arti-\\nficial bowers in the garden. The celebrated\\nauthor of Common Sense retired frequently\\n124", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfrom the company to analyze his thoughts and\\nto enjoy the repast of his own original ideas.\\nHere were to be seen men who had opposed\\neach other in the councils and parties of their\\ncountry, forgetting all former resentments and\\nexchanging civilities with each other. Mifflin\\nand Reed accosted each other w^ith all the\\nkindness of ancient friends. Here were to be\\nseen men of various countries and languages,\\nsuch as Americans and Frenchmen, English-\\nmen and Scotchmen, Germans and Irishmen,\\nconversing with each other like children of\\none father. And lastly, here were to be seen\\nthe extremes of the civilized and savage life.\\nDr. Rush further explains the striking contrast\\nmentioned in this last sentence by saying that\\nan Indian chief was present in his savage\\nhabit and the Count Rochambeau in his splen-\\ndid and expensive uniform.\\nSeveral instances, of great generosity and\\nthoughtfulness on the part of the French\\nMinister, are recorded. In order to humor the\\ntaste of the populace for spectacular enter-\\ntainments, M. de la Luzerne had a board fence\\non one side of the grounds pulled down, and\\nhad a light, open fence put up in its place,\\nthrough which a full view of the dancing-room\\ncould be had. By this means thousands of\\npeople v/ere able to witness the brilliant scene.\\nIn addition to this, says Dr. Rush, and whether\\nspeaking seriously or not it is impossible to\\ntell, Under the orchestra there w^as a private\\nroom where several quaker ladies, whose dress\\n125", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2would not permit them to join the assembly,\\nwere indulged with a sight of the company\\nthrough a gauze curtain.\\nThis little attention to the curiosity of the\\nladies marks in the strongest manner the min-\\nister s desire to oblige everybody.\\nIf the last was a little jest of the good Doc-\\ntor s, intended for a Quaker friend to whom he\\nw^as writing, it was perpetrated w^ith admirable\\nskill and vraisemblance. Another instance is re-\\nlated of the kindness of M. de la Luzerne, who\\nproposed to distribute two pipes of Madeira\\nwine and six hundred dollars in small change\\namong the populace, which was gathered\\naround the house and the adjoining streets to\\nthe number of several thousands. From this\\nact of generosity, says Dr. Rush, he was\\ndissuaded by some gentlemen of the city, who\\nw^ere afraid that it might prove the occasion\\nof a riot or some troublesome proceedings.\\nThe money devoted to this purpose was char-\\nitably distributed among the prisoners in the\\njails, and patients in the hospitals in the city.\\nThat the populace might not be entirely de-\\nprived of some share in the rejoicings of this\\nfete de naissance, some fireworks were exhibited\\nfrom an open lot near the Minister s house.\\nThese the little Quaker children in the neigh-\\nborhood were permitted to enjoy, as Mrs.\\nDrinker relates that C. James and our chil-\\ndren spent part of ye evening on ye top of ye\\nHouse, vhere they could see ye Fireworks.\\nAt the supper, which was served in three large\\n126", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntents so connected as to make one room, Dr.\\nRush says that the Chevalier de la Luzerne\\nappeared with all the splendour of the minister\\nand all the politeness of a gentleman, as he\\nwalked along the tables and addressed himself\\nin particular to every lady.\\nSuperb as was this entertainment, the con-\\nviviality and ease essential to complete en-\\njoyment seemed to be lost sight of in the\\nimpressive decorum of the scene. While ad-\\nmiring this excessive good breeding, which\\nled several gentlemen to remark that the\\ncompany looked and behaved more as if they\\nwere worshipping than eating, Dr. Rush\\nfound something lacking, a void that could\\nonly have been filled by an ode to the Dauphin,\\nsung or repeated, which, he thought, would\\nhave served to draw the company together in\\na genuine rejoicing. That an ode had been\\ncomposed for this occasion by Mr. William\\nSmith, son of the Reverend W^illiam Smith,\\nDr. Rush states in his letter, adding, but for\\nwhat cause I know not, it did not make its\\nappearance.\\nAs M. de Chastellux does not describe the\\ngrand fete of his friend and compatriot, we\\nmay conclude that he was not in Philadelphia\\nat the time. He travelled much, North and\\nSouth, was in Williamsburg, Virginia, in May\\nof this year, and later in New England, visiting\\nColonel and Mrs. Langdon and Colonel Went-\\nworth, in Portsmouth, and the Tracys, in\\nNewburyport.\\n127", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMr. John Tracy, the most considerable mer-\\nchant of the place, entertained M. de Chas-\\ntellux and the French gentleman with him.\\nMrs. Tracy and her sister, and a cousin. Miss\\nLee, ^vho is described as possessing an agree-\\nable and spirituelle face, made the evening pass\\npleasantly Miss Lee sang, and induced M. de\\nVaudreuil to join her. After the ladies had\\nleft the room, M. de Chastellux relates that\\nthe gentlemen continued drinking Mr. Tracy s\\nvery excellent Madeira and sherry, and that,\\nin consequence of pipes which were intro-\\nduced, according to the custom of the country,\\nthe other gentlemen not M. de Chastellux\\nlost their heads, and were glad to be led home\\nto their beds. The French gentleman wished\\nit to be clearly understood that it was the\\nAmerican pipes, and not the imported Madeira,\\nthat brought about this unhappy state of af-\\nfairs.\\nIn Boston M. de Chastellux was welcomed\\nby his ancie?ine connoissance M. Brick, with\\nwhom he dined, and by -whom he was intro-\\nduced to the Assembly balls, of which this\\ngentleman, Mr. Samuel Breck, was a man-\\nager.* Here the French gentleman had the\\nMr. Samuel Breck, of Boston, father of the Honorable\\nSamuel Breck, author of the Recollections. Mr. Samuel\\nBreck, the elder, was an opulent merchant who lived at the\\ncorner of Winter and Tremont Streets, Boston, which city\\nhe left in 1792, on account of the iniquitous taxes, and\\nsettled at 321 High Street, Philadelphia, where he spent\\nthe remainder of his days.\\n128", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Honorable Samuel Breck\\nBv Loiihet", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\npleasure of seeing the Marquis de Vaudreuil\\nopen the ball with Lady Temple and after\\nobserving the grace with which M. de I Aig-\\nuille, the elder, and M. Truguet each per-\\nformed in the minuet, he enjoyed the still\\ngreater satisfaction of contrasting, to the ad-\\nvantage of his own compatriots, the dancing\\nof Americans and Frenchmen. Towards the\\nladies, M. de Chastellux was more compli-\\nmentary, pronouncing Mrs. Jarvis, her sister.\\nMiss Betsy Broom, and Mrs. Whitmore the\\nbest dancers in the room. Although the women\\npresent were well dressed, and the coup d ceil\\nof the dancing-room superior to a similar as-\\nsembly at the City Tavern in Philadelphia, M.\\nde Chastellux was obliged to admit that the\\ndressing was less elegant and tasteful than in\\nthe Quaker City.\\nUpon another occasion M. de Chastellux\\nrecords his pride in the dancing of two other\\nfellow-countrymen, the Comte de Damas and\\nthe Vicomte de Noailles. This was at a ball\\ngiven in Philadelphia. Strangers, he says,\\nhave generally the privilege of being compli-\\nmented w^ith the handsomest women. The\\nComte de Damas had Mrs. Bingham for a\\npartner, and the Vicomte de Noailles, Miss\\nShippen. Both of them, like true philoso-\\nphers, testified a great respect for the manners\\nThis was probably Comte Charles de Damas, as M.\\nde Chastellux repeats the name frequently in his letters.\\nGuillaume Matthieu Comte Dumas was in America at the\\n9 129", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof the country by not quitting their handsome\\npartners the whole evening; in other respects\\nthey were the admiration of all the assembly,\\nfrom the grace and nobleness with which they\\ndanced I may even assert, to the honor of\\nmy country, that they surpassed a Chief Jus-\\ntice of Carolina (Mr. Pendleton) and tw^o\\nmembers of Congress, one of whom (Mr.\\nDuane) passed however for being by lo per\\ncent more lively than all the other dancers.\\nThe ball was suspended towards midnight, by\\na supper served in the manner of coffee, on\\nseveral different tables. On passing into the\\ndining room, the Chevalier de la Luzerne pre-\\nsented his hand to Mrs. Morris, and gave her\\nthe precedence, an honor pretty generally\\nbestowed upon her, as she is the richest\\nwoman in the city.\\nM. de Chastellux was quite correct in speak-\\ning of Mrs. Robert Morris as a great social\\nleader at this time. Her husband s wealth and\\nimportant position in the Republic, the stand-\\ning of her family, and her o\\\\vn tact and ability\\nall combined to make Mrs. Morris an impor-\\ntant personage in the fashionable world. Mrs.\\nDrinker w^rites of her daughter, and her young\\nsame time, and in his memoirs speaks of Count Charles de\\nDamas, wrho was, like himself an aide-de-camp to Count\\nRochambeau. The names and titles are easily confused.\\nThe Comte Dumas -was the more distinguished of the\\ntwo, having later served as aide-de-camp to Lafayette and\\nfought with Napoleon, while under Louis Philippe he was\\nmade Councillor of State and a Peer of France.\\n130", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfriends, having gone to see the greenhouse of\\nRobert Morris as one of the sights of the town.\\nThis was at his country-place, The Hills, as\\nMrs. Drinker says that the distance was over\\nthree miles.\\nMr. Samuel Breck, in recalling the elegance\\nof the Morris household, does not dwell upon\\nthe white liveries of the servants, as does\\nanother writer of the time, but he says very\\nemphatically that such luxury was to be found\\nnowhere else in America. It \\\\vas the pure\\nand unalloyed which the Morrises sought to\\nplace before their friends, v/ithout the abate-\\nments that so frequently accompany the dis-\\nplays of fashionable life. No badly cooked or\\ncold dinners at their tables no pinched fires\\nupon their hearths no paucity of waiters no\\nawkward loons in their drawing rooms. We\\nhave no such establishments now. God in\\nhis mercy gives us plenty of provisions, but\\nit would seem as if the devil possessed the\\ncooks.\\nM. de Chastellux says of Mr. Morris: He\\nis a large man, very simple in his manners,\\nhis mind is subtle and acute, a zealous repub-\\nlican and an Epicurean philosopher, he has\\nalways played a distinguished part in social\\nlife and in affairs.\\nOne of M. de Chastellux s earliest visits was\\nto Mrs. Richard Bache, -whom he found en-\\ngaged, in company with Mrs. Joseph Reed\\nand a number of Philadelphia ladies, in making\\nshirts for the Continental soldiers. Simple\\n131", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin her manners, he says, like her respect-\\nable father [Dr. Franklin] she possesses his\\nbenevolence.\\nNo traveller who visited America at this\\ntime, seems to have so thoroughly understood\\nthe position and capabilities of the women\\nof the Republic as did M. de Chastellux.\\nAfter being delightfully entertained at Colonel\\nSamuel Meredith s, where Miss Polly Cad-\\nwalader made a conquest of Mr. Lynch, while\\nMrs. Meredith conversed with the narrator\\nupon literature, poetry, romance, and, above\\nall, on the history of France, upon which she\\nwas well informed, the admiring Frenchman\\nconstructed the follow^ing somewhat involved\\nepigram: It must be acknowledged, with\\nregard to the ladies who compose it [Mrs.\\nMeredith s circle] that none of them is what\\nmay be called handsome; this mode of ex-\\npression is, perhaps, a little too circuitous for\\nthe American women, but if they have wit\\nenough to comprehend, and good sense enough\\nto be flattered with it, their eulogium will be\\ncomplete.\\nM. de Chastellux supped, dined, and danced\\nwith both Whigs and Tories. He makes par-\\nticular mention of such leading Whig families\\nas the Peterses, W^illings, Morrises, Powels,\\nCadwaladers,* and Binghams. At the house\\nAs early as 1766, soon after the repeal of the Stamp\\nAct, Colonel Lambert Cadwalader, after eulogizing Mr.\\nPitt for his share in the good work, wrote to Colonel George\\nMorgan, of Pittsburgh, in the following patriotic and pro-\\n132", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof the Virginia statesman, Colonel Theodoric\\nBland, he drank tea, which function the\\nFrench Marquis described as a sort of as-\\nsembly, pretty much like the conversazioni of\\nItaly. Here the Marquis de Chastellux met\\nMr. Izard, of South Carolina, and Arthur Lee,\\nboth recently returned from Europe, and his\\nthree compatriots, the Marquis de Lafayette,\\nthe Vicomte de Noailles, and the Comte de\\nDamas. The scene, he says, was decorated\\nby several married and unmarried ladies,\\namong whom Miss Shippen, daughter of Dr.\\nShippen, and a cousin of Mrs. Arnold, claimed\\nparticular distinction.\\nDr. William Shippen was a stanch friend of\\nthe administration and of the Chief Executive,\\nhaving served the latter during the war as\\nDirector-General of the Medical Department,\\nand endured with him the slings and arrows\\nof outrageous invective at the hands of Con-\\nway and others. The Miss Shippen to whom\\nM. de Chastellux so frequently alluded was\\nDr. William Shippen s daughter Anne, who\\nsoon after married Mr. Livingston.\\nAt Dr. Shippen s home the French gentle-\\nman was introduced to a scene that must have\\nreminded him of a salon in his own country as\\nphetic strain: America is again free! God bless her;\\nlong may she remain so. As to the Act asserting the right\\nof Parliament to tax the Colonies, we shall regard it as\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0waste paper. Let us only enjoy liberty but half a century\\nlonger, and we will defy the power of England to enslave\\nus.\\n133", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nmuch as a conversazione of Italy. In the\\nafternoon, he says, we drank tea with Miss\\nShippen. This was the first time, since my\\narrival in America, that I had seen music\\nintroduced into society, and mixed with its\\namusements. Miss Rutledge played upon\\nthe harpsichord, and played very well. Miss\\nShippen sang with timidity, but with a pretty\\nvoice. Mr. Ottaw, Secretary to M. de Lu-\\nzerne,* sent for his harp and accompanied\\nMiss Shippen playing several pieces. Music\\nnaturally leads to dancing the Vicomte de\\nNoailles, took down a violin, which was\\nmounted with harp strings, and he made the\\nyoung ladies dance, whilst their mothers and\\nother grave personages chatted in another\\nroom.\\nMrs. Samuel Pov^^el, for \\\\vhom Mrs. John\\nAdams expressed so warm an admiration,\\nmade a deep impression upon the critical and\\nalways discriminating Frenchman, which he\\nshowed by frequently going to her home for a\\nchat and staying until a late hour. She is,\\nhe says, well read and intelligent but what\\ndistinguished her most is her taste for conver-\\nsation, and the truly European use that she\\nknows how to make of her understanding and\\ninformation. Of the happy married life of\\nMr. and Mrs. Powel, M. de. Chastellux writes\\nI shall not say that they have lived together\\nLouis Guillaume Otto, afterwards charge d affaires in\\nthe place of M. Barb6-Marbois.\\n134", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin the closest union as man and wife, for\\ntwenty years, as that would not convey the\\nidea of perfect equality in America, but as two\\nfriends, happily matched in point of under-\\nstanding, taste and information.\\nMrs. Powel was a sister of Mr. Thomas\\nWilling, and after the death of his wife, this\\nmotherly and friendly lady, as Mrs. Adams\\ndescribed her, was a great help to her brother\\nin the care of his large family of young\\ndaughters. The eldest of the group, Mrs.\\nWilliam Bingham, was a bride of seventeen\\nwhen M. de Chastellux met her. Although\\nthose who knew Anne Willing in her girlhood\\ndescribed her as beautiful and charming, it is\\nevident that her attractions, at this early time,\\n\\\\vere only a promise of the full flo^ver of\\nbeauty that was to grace the social life of the\\nfirst and second administrations.\\nMr. Thomas Willing, the father of Mrs. Bing-\\nham, had inherited from his father, Charles\\nWilling, some property, a large commercial\\nbusiness, and an excellent ability for affairs.\\nDuring the war he and his partner, Robert\\nMorris, were the financial bulwarks of the\\nRevolution, in addition to which they held im-\\nportant positions in the Provincial and Conti-\\nnental Congresses. Both Mr. Willing and Mr.\\nMorris had hesitated to sign the Declaration\\nof Independence, because they hoped for an\\nadjustment of the difficulties with the mother\\ncountry but when the Revolution became an\\naccomplished fact, no men were more ardent\\n135", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin their support of the cause of the Colonies\\nthan these two merchant princes of old Phila-\\ndelphia. When the Bank of North America\\nwas chartered, Mr. Willing was elected its\\nPresident, having associated with him in its\\nmanagement such substantial citizens as James\\nWilson, Samuel Osgood, Samuel Meredith,\\nCad\\\\valader Morris, Samuel Inglis, Timothy\\nMatlack, and Thomas Fitzsimons, an Irish\\nmerchant and patriot. The establishment of\\nthis bank, whose object was to raise money\\nfor the prosecution of the w^ar, \\\\vas greatly\\nfacilitated by the election of Mr. Morris to be\\nSuperintendent of Finance, and by the arrival\\nof a French frigate bringing four hundred and\\nseventy thousand dollars in specie for the use\\nof the provisional government. Thomas Wil-\\nling, John Ross, Gouverneur Morris, George\\nMeade, David H. Conyngham, and other men\\nof means had sufficient confidence in the ulti-\\nmate success of the Colonies to subscribe\\nlargely to this bank, although, as Gouverneur\\nMorris said, the government, w^hich was the\\nlargest stockholder, always put in its deposit\\nw^ith one hand and borrowed it with the other.\\nMr. William Bingham, w^hen a very young\\nman, and at the commencement of his suc-\\ncessful career, generously subscribed five thou-\\nsand pounds to the Bank of Pennsylvania for\\nthe purpose of supplying the army of the\\nUnited States with provisions for two months,\\nand this in one of the darkest hours of the\\nstruggle for liberty. Upon the formation of\\n136", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe Bank of North America, Mr. Bingham\\nagain subscribed largely, as did Mr. Willing,\\nits President. Those, who afterwards spoke\\nof Mr. Bingham and other stockholders of the\\nbank as having made money out of the war,\\nseemed to forget that at the time these men\\nsubscribed funds to a bank established by a\\nprovisional government, the result of the war\\nwas still involved in great uncertainty. If\\nin the end they made much, the risk that\\nthey ran was proportionately great and we\\nhave good reason to believe to-day, that Mr.\\nThomas Willing, Mr. Bingham, Mr. Morris,\\nMr. Meredith, and their associates in the Bank\\nof North America, were actuated by the most\\nunselfish and patriotic motives, the primary\\nuse of the funds of this bank being for the\\nrecruiting service and to procure supplies for\\nthe army.\\nMr. Bingham, whose sudden rise to fortune\\nand influence made him the subject of some\\nscathing satires and pasquinades on the part\\nof Peter Markoe and other poets and poetas-\\nters of his time, is now^ chiefly known as a\\nman of large wealth, and as the husband of a\\nbeautiful v/oman who was a great social leader\\nin Philadelphia life in the latter years of the\\ncentury, which goes to prove that even in days\\nof less rapid progress among women, it was\\npossible for a man to be overshadowed by the\\nbrilliancy of his wife. William Bingham was\\na man who accomplished much good work in\\nhis day. A graduate of the College of Phila-\\n137", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndelphia, he early received a diplomatic ap-\\npointment under the British government to\\nSaint Pierre, on the island of Martinique,\\nwhere he remained for several years. Mr.\\nBingham returned to Philadelphia during the\\nRevolutionary War, after having for some\\ntime acted as Consul for the Continental Con-\\ngress in Martinique, and under the new gov-\\nernment held the position of United States\\nSenator.\\nIn 1784 Mr. and Mrs. Bingham visited\\nLondon and Paris, in both of which cities the\\nAmerican beauty was greatly admired and\\nfeted. Mr. Bingham, being possessed of social\\ntastes as ^vell as distinguished ability, made\\nmany friends, some of w^hom visited him in\\nhis own home in Philadelphia, or at his\\ncountry-place, Lansdowne, on the Schuylkill.\\nAmong English friends, made by the Bing-\\nhams while abroad, was the Marquess of\\nLansdowne, who had recently succeeded the\\nMarquess of Rockingham as Prime Minister\\nof England. Lord Wycombe, the eldest son\\nof the Marquess of Lansdowne, visited Amer-\\nica about 1790. It is said that the Marquess\\nof Lansdowne, who as Lord Shelburne had\\nhelped to make peace with the United States,\\ndesired to have his son know^ something of the\\nnation to which Great Britain had been com-\\npelled to relinquish her claim.\\nMr. Samuel Breck gives an amusing ac-\\ncount of the reception of Lord W^ycombe at a\\nBoston boarding-house. The landlady, Mrs.\\n138", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nEaton, introduced the English gentleman as\\nLord Wickham, that probably being the pro-\\nnunciation given by his valet; his fello^v-\\nlodgers, not being accustomed to the society\\nof lordships, concluded that Lord Avas his\\nChristian name, and addressed the stranger as\\nMr. Wickham, except when a man from Salem\\nentered into the conversation and spoke to\\nhim as Mr. Wackhim.\\nWhile in Philadelphia, Lord Wycombe was\\nentertained by President Washington, and Mr.\\nSamuel Breck speaks of meeting him at the\\nBinghams and at other houses. Mr. William\\nSmith, a Member of Congress from South\\nCarolina, gave a ball in honor of Lord Wy-\\ncombe. At this ball, says Mr. Breck, a\\ngreat belle. Miss Sophia ChcAV, teased him so\\nmuch to dance with her that he at length very\\nreluctantly consented. The poor man, high\\nborn as he was, had never learned to dance\\nyes, distinguished as was his birth, he did not\\nknow a single step. No performance, of\\ncourse, could be more avs^kward, and he\\nseemed in agony the whole time. But Miss\\nChew, privileged as all pretty women are, had\\ndetermined to dance with a lord so she said,\\nand so persisted until, bon gre\\\\ mal gr/^ the\\nstranger was obliged to submit. He w^as a\\ntall, thin, gawky man of twenty three or\\ntwenty four years of age, mentally well en-\\ndowed, though eccentric.\\nFor the Marquess of Lansdowne, Mrs. Bing-\\nham had a full-length portrait of President\\n139", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nWashington painted by Stuart.* In a graceful\\nletter, in which the English nobleman ac-\\nknowledges the receipt of the portrait, he says\\nthat he considers the gift a very magnificent\\ncompliment, whose value is enhanced by the\\nrespect he feels for Mr. and Mrs. Bingham.\\nThe letter concludes with the following ex-\\npressions upon the character of the President\\nGeneral Washington s conduct is above all\\npraise. He has left a noble example to sover-\\neigns and nations present, and to come. I beg\\nyou will mention both me and my sons to him\\nin the most respectful terms possible. If I\\nwas not too old, I would go to Virginia to do\\nhim homage.\\nGilbert Stuart painted more than one por-\\nThere has been much dispute with regard to the owner-\\nship of this portrait, and some excellent authorities have\\ncome to the conclusion that the original portrait is in the\\nAcademy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and that the one\\nsent to the Marquess of Lansdowne is a replica made from\\nit. There is no doubt, however, that General Washington\\nsat to Stuart for a full-length portrait for Mrs. Bingham,\\nas he wrote to the artist, under date of April ii, 1796 I\\nam under promise to Mrs. Bingham to sit for you to-morrov7,\\nat nine o clock, and wishing to know if it be convenient to\\nyou that I should do so, and whether it shall be at your\\nown house (as she talked of the State House) I send this\\nnote to ask information.\\nMr. John Nagle says that Stuart told him that this por-\\ntrait of General Washingtonwas bespoken bythe Marquess\\nof Lansdowne, before he left England, but that Mr. Bing-\\nham asked for the privilege of presenting the picture to the\\nMarquess.\\nZ40", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "All^. William I iiifihain\\nBv Gilbert Stuart", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntrait of Mrs. Bingham. A charming head is\\nowned by Dr. Henry Middleton Fisher, of Al-\\nverthorpe, and a graceful picture of the young\\nwife and mother, with her children around her,\\nis to be found upon a huge unfinished canvas\\nof Stuart s, which was evidently intended to\\nadorn a large wall-space at Lansdowne. Mr.\\nBingham s horse has been brought to the door,\\nand he stands ready to mount it, while his\\nwife playfully holds her infant son upon the\\nhorse s back, and an older child, Anne Louisa,\\nstands by watching the group. This picture,\\nalthough sketchy and unfinished, is attractive\\nin color and composition. For many years it\\nwas in Trenton, New Jersey, in the posses-\\nsion of Miss Mary Clymer, a niece of Mrs.\\nBingham s, at w^hose death it passed into the\\npossession of the Countess Jacques de Bryas,\\nof Paris, a daughter of William Bingham Cly-\\nmer, and consequently a grand-niece of Mrs.\\nWilliam Bingham.\\nMrs. John Adams first met Mrs. Bingham\\nabroad, and was so much charmed w^ith her\\nbeauty and grace that she compared her thus\\nfavorably with the celebrated English beau-\\nties I have not seen a lady in England w^ho\\ncan bear a comparison with Mrs. Bingham,\\nMrs. Piatt, and a Miss Hamilton, who is a\\nPhiladelphia young lady. Amongst the most\\ncelebrated of their beauties stands the Du-\\nchess of Devonshire, who is masculine in\\nher appearance. Lady Salisbury is small and\\ngenteel, but her complexion is bad and Lady\\n141", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nTalbot is not a Mrs. Bingham, who, taken\\naltogether, is the finest woman I ever saw.\\nThe intelligence of her countenance, or rather,\\nI ought to say, animation, the elegance of\\nher form, and the affability of her manners,\\nconvert you into admiration and one has\\nonly to lament too much dissipation and fri-\\nvolity of amusement, which have weaned her\\nfrom her native country, and given her a\\npassion and thirst after all the luxuries of\\nEurope.\\nDespite Mrs. Bingham s enjoyment of for-\\neign life and fashions, she and her husband\\nreturned to America after a residence abroad\\nof less than two years. Mr. William Hamil-\\nton, of Woodlands, in writing from London\\nto Dr. Thomas Parke, in March, 1786, says\\nMr. Bingham his family are to be pas-\\nsengers with Willet. He takes two carriages\\n8 servants, c, imagine means to make\\na great Show^. What a terrible thing would\\nit be if the Lady was to get into the Dey s\\nSeraglio.\\nNo such unhappy fate as that suggested by\\nMr. Hamilton having overtaken the Lady,\\nMr. and Mrs. Bingham returned in safety to\\nPhiladelphia, where they soon after built their\\nhandsome house on the west side of Third\\nStreet above Spruce. The grounds belonging\\nto Mr. Bingham s property, v^hich had been\\nused during the British occupation as a pa-\\nrade ground, extended to Fourth Street. The\\nhouse was set back about forty feet from the\\n142", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nline of the street, and was approached by a\\ncircular carriage-way. The entrance to the\\nhouse was not raised, but brought the visitor\\nby a single step to the wide hall, paved w^ith\\ntessellated marble, from which a broad stair-\\nway of white mable, leading to the second\\nfloor, gave the entrance an elegant and spa-\\ncious appearance. Mr. ^Vatson says that the\\ngrounds, which were carefully laid out and\\ncontained beautiful and rare trees, were un-\\nfortunately enclosed within a high board fence\\nand a close line of Lombardy poplars, which\\nprevented passers by from enjoying the lovely\\ngarden.\\nWhile Mr. Bingham s house, which was\\nmodelled after the residence of the Duke of\\nManchester, Manchester Square, London, was\\nin course of erection, Mrs. Warder wrote in\\nher diary that she stopped on her way home\\nfrom George Emlen s, on Fourth Street, to\\nlook at the Binghams new^ house, which, she\\nsays, causes much talk here, being upon a\\nnew plan, but very ungenteel, I think, as it\\nmuch resembles some of our heavy public\\nbuildings four windows back and front, with\\nfigures of stucco work.\\nAlthough Mr. Bingham s new mansion did\\nnot meet with the approval of the English\\nQuakeress, Mrs. Warder, it was greatly ad-\\nmired by Philadelphians and by many visitors,\\nand was sufficiently elegant in its appoint-\\nments to draw^ forth some shafts of sarcasm\\nfrom Peter Markoe and other persons of\\n143", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsocialistic tendencies,* In his verses upon\\nThe Times, which were evidently out of\\njoint for him, Mr. Markoe wrote:\\nRapax, the muse has slightly touched thy crimes,\\nAnd dares to wake thee from thy golden dream,\\nIn peculation s various arts supreme\\nTho to thy mansion wits and fops repair.\\nTo game, to feast, to flatter, and to stare.\\nBut say, from what bright deeds dost thou derive\\nThat wealth which bids thee rival British Clive\\nWrung from the hardy sons of toil and wrar.\\nBy arts, which petty scoundrels would abhor.\\nIn her spacious and beautiful home on Third\\nStreet above Spruce, Mrs. Bingham was sur-\\nrounded by her family. The grounds of her\\nfather s house, on the same street, joined her\\ngarden, while her aunts, Mrs. Byrd and Mrs.\\nPowel, both had elegant establishments on\\nThird Street.f The Reverend Dr. Blackwell,\\nwho had married Mr. Bingham s sister, lived\\non Pine Street above Third, and at 187 South\\nThird Street Mrs. Bingham s sister, Elizabeth,\\nresided after her marriage with Major William\\nJackson.\\nThis house, the scene of so many brilliant entertain-\\nments, was afterwards used as a hotel, a well-appointed\\nand most fashionable resort, called the Mansion House,\\nwhich was kept by William Renshaw, and afterwards by\\nJoseph Head.\\nt Mr. Thomas Willing s house, at the southwest corner\\nof Third and Willing s Alley, which was built by John\\nPalmer in 1745, was afterwards used for the offices of the\\nPennsylvania Railroad Company.\\n144", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Mrs. William Byrd\\nBy Cosmo Alexander", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMrs. William Byrd was Mr. Charles Wil-\\nling s daughter Mary. She married the third\\nColonel Byrd, of Westover. Although their\\nhome was at the family seat in Virginia, Mr.\\nand Mrs. Byrd spent much time in Philadel-\\nphia, where Mr. ^Villing had built them a\\nhouse. Edward Burd,* who, in his numerous\\nletters to friends and relatives, gives some inti-\\nmate and graphic pictures of the gayer side\\nof Philadelphia life, w^rote of this lady some\\nyears after her marriage I had the Happi-\\nness of being introduced last Sunday to my\\nCousin Mrs. Byrd from Virginia, and of tasting\\nher sweet Lips a Happiness seldom enjoyed\\nhere by the People of Fashion, which is a\\nTyrant that I am afraid will in time be the\\nDestruction of all social Pleasures.\\nMr. Wansey speaks in his journal of dining\\nat the Binghams and finding the house and\\ngarden in the best English style, the drawing-\\nroom chairs from Seddons, in London, the\\ncarpet one of Moore s most expensive pat-\\nterns, and the paper in French taste, after the\\nstyle of the Vatican at Rome. This rather\\ncurious mingling of styles Mr. Wansey thought\\nvery handsome and effective. The guests at\\n*This is Edward Burd, whose mother was Sarah Ship-\\npen. He married his cousin, Elizabeth Shippen, a sister\\nof Mrs, Benedict Arnold. Mr. Burd w^as a stanch Whig,\\ncommanded a company of volunteers, and was taken pris-\\noner at the Battle of Long Island. His letters have recently\\nbeen privately printed by Lewis Burd Walker, of Potts-\\nville, Pennsylvania.\\n10 145", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthis dinner were Mr. Willing, president of the\\nbank of the United States, the father of Mrs.\\nBingham Mons. Cailot, the exiled Governor\\nof Guadaloupe and the famous Viscount de\\nNoailles, who distinguished himself so much\\nin the first National Constituent Assembly, on\\nAugust 4, 1789, by his propositions, and his\\nspeech, on that occasion, for the abolition of\\nfeudal rights. He is now engaged in forming\\na settlement with other unfortunate Country-\\nmen, about sixty-five miles north of North-\\numberland Town. It is called Asylum, and\\nstands on the eastern branch of the Susque-\\nlianah.\\nPresident Washington was a frequent visitor\\nat the Binghams his official and unofficial\\nrelations with Mr. Bingham being of the most\\nfriendly nature, while Mrs. Bingham he had\\nknown from her girlhood.\\nIt is evident that this young w^oman, who\\ndrew around her the best and brightest men\\nof her day, possessed a charm beyond and\\nabove her great beauty. Washington, who\\nwas an accurate reader of character, admired\\nand liked Mrs. Bingham, and John Jay, who\\nhad shown so much wisdom in his own matri-\\nmonial choice, wrote to Mr. Bingham at the\\ntime of his marriage, As I am always pleased\\nto find those happy whom I think deserve to\\nbe so, it gave me very sensible satisfaction to\\nhear that you had both made so judicious a\\nchoice, notwithstanding the veil which that\\nsweet fascinating passion often draws over our\\n146", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\neyes and understanding. Mr. Jefferson was\\na warm friend and admirer of the Philadelphia\\nbeauty, w^hom he first met in Paris, and \\\\vith\\nwhom he afterwards corresponded. In -writing\\nto Mrs. Bingham after her return to America,\\nhe thus half playfully, half seriously alluded\\nto a discussion that they had had upon the\\nrelative attractions of life at home and abroad\\nI know, madam, that the twelve-month is\\nnot yet expired but it will be, nearly, before\\nthis will have the honor of being put into your\\nhands. You are then engaged to tell me, truly\\nand honestly, whether you do not find the\\ntranquil pleasures of America preferable to the\\nempty bustle of Paris. For to what does that\\nbustle tend At eleven o clock it is day, chez\\nniadame. The curtains are drawn. Propped on\\nbolsters and pillows, and her head scratched\\ninto a little order, the bulletins of the sick are\\nread, and the billets of the well. She -writes to\\nsome of her acquaintances and receives the\\nvisits of others. If the morning is not very\\nthronged, she is able to get out and hobble\\nround the cage of the Palais Royal but she\\nmust hobble quickly, for the coiffeur s turn is\\ncome; and a tremendous turn it is! Happy,\\nif he does not make her arrive when dinner is\\nhalf over The torpitude of digestion a little\\npassed, she flutters half an hour through the\\nstreets, by way of paying visits, and then to\\nthe spectacles. These finished, another half\\nhour is devoted to dodging in and out of the\\ndoors of her very sincere friends, and away to\\n147", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsupper. After supper, cards and after cards,\\nbed; to rise at noon the next day, and to tread,\\nlike a mill-horse, the same trodden circle over\\nagain. If death or bankruptcy happen to\\ntrip us out of the circle, it is matter for the\\nbuzz of the evening, and is completely for-\\ngotten by the next morning. In America, on\\nthe other hand, the society of your husband,\\nthe fond cares for the children, the arrange-\\nments of the house, the improvements of the\\ngrounds, fill every moment with a healthy\\nand an useful activity. The intervals of\\nleisure are filled by the society of real friends,\\nwhose affections are not thinned to cobweb by\\nbeing spread over a thousand objects. This is\\nthe picture, in the light it is presented to my\\nmind; now let me have it in yours.\\nUnfortunately, Mrs. Bingham s reply to this\\ncharming letter is not available. We may\\nbelieve, however, that she ably defended her\\nside of the question.\\nOne contemporary speaks of Mrs. Bingham s\\nbeauty, another of the grace of her figure and\\nthe elegance of her bearing but the one prob-\\nably who best understood her charm, says\\nHer manners were a gift. With advantages,\\npersonal, social, and external, such as hardly\\never fail to excite envy from her sex, such was\\nher easy and happy turn of feeling, and such\\nthe fortunate cast of her natural manners,\\nthat she seemed never to excite the sting of\\nunkindness, nor so much as aw^aken its slum-\\nber or repose. Her entertainments were dis-\\n148", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntinguished not more for their superior style\\nand frequency than for the happy and discreet\\nselection of her guests.\\nWhen Mr. Jefferson, Chief-Justice Jay and\\nhis beautiful wife, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wol-\\ncott, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hopkinson, and Mr.\\nMadison and his Dolly, who possessed so\\nmuch social charm, met in the drawing-room\\nof Mrs. Bingham, and there found the Due de\\nLiancourt, the Vicomte de Noailles, the great\\necclesiastical diplomat Talleyrand, and the\\ntraveller Volney, who, if peevish and sour\\ntempered, possessed a vast fund of informa-\\ntion, w^e may believe that there was no lack of\\nbrilliant conversation. Whether the discussion\\nturned upon foreign life and fashions, or upon\\npolitics at home, or the stirring events then\\ntranspiring in the Old World, it was worthy\\nof any salon of Paris or London. Here also\\ncame young Mr. Breck, who had been edu-\\ncated abroad, and being upon intimate terms\\nwith the foreign noblemen, was ever ready\\nto assist his hostess in drawing together the\\nvarious elements in her drawing-room. Nor\\nwas this a difficult task when Mr. Jeffer-\\nson and Mr. Hamilton were present, as they\\nboth possessed an unlimited capacity for being\\ninterested in people and matters outside of\\ntheir own especial lines, while Judge Peters\\nwas most helpful in his ability to stem the\\ntide of a too serious discussion by one of his\\ntwisted quirks and happy hits. Another\\nbrilliant guest was Mrs. John Adams, fresh\\n149", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfrom foreign fields of observation, with a\\ntongue as ready as her pen, clear, discrimi-\\nnating, and penetrating to the heart of things,\\nyet always too honest and fair-minded to be\\nill-natured. It was Mrs. Adams who said of\\nMrs. Bingham that she had come home from\\nEurope to give the laws to Philadelphia v/omen\\nin fashion and elegance, and these laws they\\nseem to have followed with no thought of\\nrebellion.\\nIt is said that Queen Marie Antoinette, in\\nthe days of her youth and gayety, one day\\npicked up an ostrich plume and carelessly\\nstuck it in her hair. The young Dauphiness\\nsaw^ that the feather was becoming, the court\\nladies told her that she looked beautiful in a\\nhigh coifftire, as, indeed, she did in everything\\nthat she put on her pretty young head, and\\nthen more feathers were added, and flowers,\\nand pearls, and what not else, until a head-\\ngear -was reared that threatened, like that other\\nstructure of Holy Writ, to reach even unto\\nheaven. As the gay court of Paris followed\\nthe fashions of the royal beauty, so did the\\nworldly minded fair of Philadelphia adopt those\\nof Mrs. Bingham.\\nFlattered, admired, and sought after, it is\\nnot strange that this lady should at times\\nhave been arbitrary and even captious. When\\nThomas Wignell opened the New Theatre, as\\nit was long called, Mrs. Bingham offered to\\ntake one of the private boxes at any price to\\nbe fixed by the manager, and to decorate and\\nISO", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfurnish the box herself, provided she might\\nkeep the key, and no person be allowed to enter\\nthe box v\\\\7ithout her consent. The proposi-\\ntion ^vas certainly a complex one to a manager\\nentering upon v/hat then seemed a large finan-\\ncial venture. Mr. Wignell was sorely tempted.\\nHe recognized all the advantages to his theatre,\\nthat would result from having one of his boxes\\nused by so great a social favorite and leader\\nof fashion as Mrs. Bingham but, on the other\\nhand, he clearly realized, says Thomas Wood,\\nthat he must act on the principles of his\\ncountry s government, and on the recognition\\nof feelings deeply pervading the structure of\\nits society to hold all men free to come into\\nhis house and equal while they continued\\nto be and behave themselves in it. In con-\\nsideration of this democratic vie^v of the situ-\\nation, Mr. Wignell politely, and with many\\nexpressions of gratitude for her consideration,\\ndeclined Mrs. Bingham s offer, and thus for-\\nfeited the patronage of the most influential\\nwoman in Philadelphia. Mrs. Bingham, who\\nwas not used to denials, seldom some per-\\nsons say never entered the New Theatre on\\nChestnut Street. It is interesting to learn\\nthat the success of this theatre justified its\\nmanager s policy, and that the haughty beauty\\nin the end suffered more than the manager, as\\nmany interesting representations were given\\nupon its stage. Mrs. Oldmixen, Mrs. Whit-\\nlock, Mrs. Morris, and Mrs. Marshall were\\nthen acting for Mr. Wignell. Mrs. Whitlock\\n151", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nbelonged to the Siddons family, so distin-\\nguished for its histrionic ability, which was\\nlater to be represented in this city by Frances\\nAnne Kemble.\\nAll strangers of distinction naturally found\\ntheir way to the Binghams hospitable home.\\nMr. Thomas Twining describes a large dinner\\nparty at Mrs. Bingham s, where he met the\\nVicomte de Noailles, Comte de Tilly, M. Vol-\\nney, the two Messrs. Baring, and several\\nmembers of the Senate and House of Repre-\\nsentatives.\\nStrange as it may appear, three of the guests\\nat this dinner married Mr. Bingham s tw^o\\ndaughters. Alexander Baring, the elder of the\\ntwo brothers Avho were in America, and the\\nsecond son of Sir Francis Baring, married\\nAnne Louisa Bingham in 1798, she being\\nat the time of her marriage in her sixteenth\\nyear.* Mr. Bingham s second daughter, Maria\\nMatilda, married the gentleman whom Mr.\\nTwining calls Count Tilley, James Alex-\\n*The Honorable Alexander Baring was in 1835 raised to\\nthe peerage as Baron Ashburton of Ashburton, County\\nDevon. His son, William Bingham Baring, married Har-\\nriet Mary, daughter of Lord Sandwich. Hence, the Lord\\nAshburton so often spoken of in Mrs. Carlyle s letters was\\nthe grandson of the Philadelphia beauty of the last cen-\\ntury, and his wife, the English pre cieuse who \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was a w^arm\\nfriend of John Stuart Mill, Charles Buller, Thomas Car-\\nlyle, and other men of letters, was the Lady Ashburton\\nwho raised such a storm of unreasonable jealousy in the\\nsensitive, unsatisfied soul of Jane Welsh Carlyle.\\n152", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nander, Comte de Tilly. This marriage was an\\nunhappy one, and the Countess de Tilly after-\\nwards became the wife of Henry Baring, who\\nwas also her father s guest at the dinner de-\\nscribed by Mr. T^vining.\\nA number of foreign marriages were made\\nat this time. Among interesting figures in the\\ndiplomatic circle were Francois Barbe-Mar-\\nbois, who came to the United States with M.\\nde la Luzerne as his secretary, the Senor\\nMartinez de Yrujo, Spanish Minister to the\\nUnited States, and David Montague Erskine,\\nafterwards Lord Erskine, w^ho, while he was\\nSecretary to the British Legation, married\\nFrances Cadwalader.\\nM. Barbe-Marbois, who was later Intendant\\nof Saint Domingo and attained a high rank in\\ndiplomatic circles, married Elizabeth Moore,\\nof Philadelphia, a daughter of Colonel Moore,\\nand a great-granddaughter of the first Thomas\\nLloyd. M. Marbois played an important part\\nin the negotiations for the sale of Louisiana to\\nthe United States.\\nThe Senor Martinez de Yrujo, who was\\nafterwards created Marquis de Casa Yrujo, is\\ndescribed as appearing at Congress Hall, ar-\\nrayed in great magnificence, to w^itness the\\ninauguration of President John Adams. He\\nwas, says a contemporary writer, of middle\\nsize, of round person, florid complexion, and\\nhair powdered like a snow ball dark striped\\nsilk coat, lined with satin white waistcoat,\\nblack silk breeches, white silk stockings, shoes\\nIS3", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand buckles. He had by his side an elegant-\\nhilted small-sword, and his chapeau, tipped\\nwith white feathers, under his arm. It is not\\nstrange that Miss Sally McKean should have\\nlost her heart to this resplendent cavalier,\\nwhom she met at a dinner soon after his ar-\\nrival in Philadelphia. Among the guests at\\nthis dinner w^ere Sir Robert Listen, the British\\nMinister, and Lady Liston, Volney the trav-\\neller, Gilbert Stuart, and Mrs. Henry Clymer\\nand her sister, Mrs. William Bingham. A con-\\ntemporary writer, in describing the meeting of\\nMiss McKean and her future husband, says\\nAmong the first to arrive was Chief Justice\\nMcKean, accompanied by his lovely daughter,\\nMiss Sally McKean. Miss McKean had many\\nadmirers, but her heart was still her own.\\nShe wore a blue satin dress trimmed with\\nwhite crape and flowers, and petticoat of white\\ncrape richly embroidered, and across the front\\na festoon of rose color caught up with flowers.\\nThe next to arrive was Senor Don Carlos\\nMartinez de Yrujo, a stranger to almost all the\\nguests. He spoke w^ith ease, but with a for-\\neign accent, and w^as soon lost in amazement\\nat the grace and beauty of Miss McKean.\\nThe acquaintance thus commenced, resulted\\nin the marriage of Miss McKean to Senor\\nMartinez de Yrujo at Philadelphia, April lo,\\n1798.\\nMrs. Bingham was in the full maturity of\\nher beauty at this time, which was the year\\nof her daughter s marriage to the Honorable\\n154", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAlexander Baring. The mother of thirty-four\\nand the bride of sixteen were often mistaken for\\nsisters. Elizabeth Willing, Mrs. Bingham s\\nyounger sister, had been married only a few\\nyears earlier to Major William Jackson, who\\nwas aide-de-camp and private secretary to Presi-\\ndent Washington. The wedding of Elizabeth\\nWilling, in her father s house at the southv/est\\ncorner of Third Street and Willing s Alley,\\nwas one of the brilliant social functions of the\\nWashington administration. Mrs. Bingham\\nacted the part of a mother to her younger\\nsister, and assisted her father in receiving\\nsuch honored v^edding guests as the President\\nand Lady Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Robert\\nMorris, Alexander Hamilton, General Knox,\\nGeneral Lincoln, a warm personal friend of\\nthe groom, and the Vicomte de Noailles.\\nThe presence of Major and Mrs. Jackson\\nnaturally added much to the attractiveness of\\nMrs. Bingham s entertainments, as did that of\\nher sisters, Mrs. Henry Clymer and Dorothy\\nand Abigail Willing. Abigail, the youngest\\nof Mr. W^illing s daughters, w^as greatly ad-\\nmired by Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, and\\nafterwards King of the French. This young\\nnobleman w^as a frequent guest at the Wil-\\nlings and Binghams where he saw Miss\\nWilling surrounded by all the charm of social\\nand domestic life. Mrs. John Redman Coxe,\\nin one of her letters to her sister and brother\\nin South Carolina, thus retails the on dit of the\\nday with regard to this affair It is reported\\n155", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthat Abby Willing is to be married to the Duke\\nof Orleans who you know arrived some time\\nbefore you left us I do not know whether it\\nis correct, but it is the general report In\\nanother letter Mrs. Coxe says Miss Wil-\\nling s match is broken off the reason is never\\nto be known. It \\\\vas thought a very extraor-\\ndinary thing at the beginning this has not\\nlessened the surprise of the natives The\\nreason, which Mrs. Coxe and the rest of\\nthe gay world did not know, may be found in\\nthe story afterwards told, which is worth re-\\npeating, as it reveals the rare common sense\\nand self-respect of Mr. W^illing. It is said\\nthat \\\\vhen the Duke of Orleans made his formal\\ndemande for the hand of his daughter, Mr. Wil-\\nling replied, with true republicanism, yet with\\nthe tact and grace of a courtier Should you\\never be restored to your hereditary position\\nyou will be too great a match for her if not\\nshe is too great a match for you.\\nInstead of the questionable future of mar-\\nrying a King of France, there was reserved for\\nAbigail W^illing the more serene, if less event-\\nful, career of becoming the wife of a Philadel-\\nphia law^yer. Miss W^illing, a few years later,\\nmarried Richard Peters, a son of Judge Peters.\\nAmong charming maids and matrons of the\\nRepublican capital were Nelly Custis her\\nthree girl friends, Elizabeth Bordley, Martha\\nCoffin, and Maria Jefferson, w^ho married her\\ncousin, Mr. Eppes Mrs. John Travis Mrs.\\nWilliam Lewis, an Irish beauty Mrs. Wil-\\n156", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nliam Ra wle, a lovely Quakeress, and Mrs.\\nJohn Cox, who, with her half dozen fair\\ndaughters, left her quiet home in New Jersey\\nto enjoy the gayeties of city life. In one of\\nMiss Sarah Cox s letters, undated, but evi-\\ndently written in February, 1797, as she refers\\nto the last birthnight ball given to President\\nWashington in Philadelphia, she says The\\ncommon topic of conversation here is the\\nBirth night, which is next Wednesday. It is\\nto be the most superb entertainment I hear\\nthat ever has been here; It is to be in the\\nsame place it was last year I suppose it will\\nbe a genteel mob for I believe everybody is\\ngoing, They all say it is to be the last time\\nwe shall ever have it in our power to celebrate\\nthe Birthday of our good President, that they\\nwill go at all events Half Trenton is down\\nalready 1 hear that a// Princeton will be here\\nMi s D^ Smith has come to go although she\\nis quite lame with the rheumatism, but you\\nknow what a good Federalist she is.\\nI talk of taking two pair of shoes with me\\nfor I danced one pair nearly out at the last\\nAssembly and I am sure if I could do that\\nwhen it had nothing to do with the President,\\nTA^hat shall I do when I have his presence to\\ninspire me.\\nAn interesting element in the social life\\nof the time was introduced by the French\\nemigrdes who were in America in the latter\\nyears of the century. Many French officers\\nand noblemen who had served under General\\n157", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nWashington returned to America, during and\\nafter the French Revolution, to avail them-\\nselves of the free institutions of the Republic\\nto which they had tendered their services.\\nMr. Samuel Breck, whose father entertained\\nwith great hospitality in his home on High\\nStreet, says, I knew personally Talleyrand,\\nBeaumais, Vicomte de Noailles, the Due de\\nLiancourt, Volney, and subsequently Louis\\nPhilippe, the present King of the French, and\\nhis two brothers, the Dues de Montpensier\\nand Beaujolais. The Duke of Orleans, or M.\\nd Orleans, as he was called, was entertained\\nin Philadelphia, says Mr. Breck, by Mr. David\\nH. Conyngham, who was then living on Front\\nStreet. The Duke of Orleans was afterwards\\njoined by his brothers, the Dukes of Mont-\\npensier and Beaujolais. These three Princes\\nmade a tour through the United States, travel-\\nling on horseback to Pittsburgh, equipped like\\nWestern traders, having a blanket over their\\nsaddles and their saddle-bags under them.\\nThe brothers afterwards visited Washington\\nat Mount Vernon. Upon their return to\\nPhiladelphia, the Duke of Orleans hired very\\nhumble lodgings in Prune Street, over a bar-\\nber-shop, says a writer of the time. The\\napartment of this future monarch was so in-\\nadequately furnished that, upon the occasion\\nof a small dinner-party given by him, he v^as\\nobliged to seat half of his guests on the bed.\\nMr. Breck speaks of a more than casual\\nacquaintance with the exiled Bishop of Au-\\n158", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntun, and once, when Alexander Hamilton was\\npleading one of his great cases, Talleyrand sat\\nin the court-room with him, listening to the\\nmasterly logic and eloquence of the brilliant\\nadvocate.\\nThe Vicomte de Noailles he describes as\\ntall, graceful, handsome, possessed of a perfect\\nfigure, the first amateur dancer of the age, and\\nwith great charm of manner. Having saved\\na fragment of his fortune from the general\\nwreck of the French Revolution, the young\\nnobleman entered into business in Philadel-\\nphia, and every day at the coffee house, or\\nexchange, where the merchants met, the ex-\\nnobleman was the busiest of the busy, holding\\nhis bank-book in one hand and a broker or a\\nmerchant by the button with the other, while\\nhe drove his bargains as earnestly as any\\nregular-bred son of a counting-house.\\nIn addition to the Frenchmen who came here\\nduring the Revolution, there also immigrated\\nto America, from Saint Domingo, a large num-\\nber of its leading citizens, who with their fami-\\nlies w^ere driven hither by the uprising in the\\nisland which followed so close upon that in\\nFrance. Again, in the early years of the next\\ncentury, while Dessalines was exercising his\\nbrutal will over the unfortunate island, a num-\\nber of French exiles came to Philadelphia.\\nIn one or other of these immigrations, came the\\nSigoignes, Tesseires, Monges, de la Roches,\\nGuillous, Clapiers, and many other French\\nfamilies of education and refinement. Some\\n159", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof these men and women thoroughly identified\\nthemselves with the interests of the country\\nto which they had come, and have been num-\\nbered among its best citizens.\\nIn 1806 General John Victor Moreau, one of\\nthe Marshals of the Empire, came to Phila-\\ndelphia with his wife. Miss Mary Binney and\\nMrs. John Cox both speak with enthusiasm of\\nthe elegance and accomplishments of Madame\\nMoreau. Miss Binney, in a letter written to\\nMrs. Simon Jackson, in Newtown, Massachu-\\nsetts, says Madame Moreau, wife of the\\nGeneral, is at present the magnet of all at-\\ntraction. Her accomplishments are indeed\\nwonderful, and it seems to me her husband\\ntakes his consequence from her now, however\\nhe reflected honor in France. Tout le monde\\nthinks and talks of Madame Moreau, parties\\nof splendor and balls are consequently given\\nfor her. Indeed she plays on the piano, harp,\\nguitar, and tambourine infinitely better than\\nany one in our own country, and is the most\\nperfectly graceful little fairy on the floor my\\neyes ever beheld. I am just getting steady\\nfrom a ball in the neighborhood where she\\ndanced the waltz to the admiration of about\\ntwo hundred people. As I suppose my cousin\\nwill be interested (in the nursery) with the\\nball dresses of Philadelphia, I must first tell\\nyou that Madame Moreau changes her dress\\nevery night, as most ladies do one night she\\nwill wear a wreath of diamonds as large as\\nlarge peas through her hair, with necklace ear-\\n160", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nrings, hair comb etc, of the same, and another\\nnight her ornaments are all beautiful pearls.\\nOur belles content themselves ^vith ostrich\\nfeathers which are universally worn, and gold\\nand silver trimmings of one kind and another.\\nNow done to this frippery, and let me turn\\nwhere my heart most certainly is, to your\\nsweet retirement and my uncle s loved Spring\\nHill.\\nIn one of Mrs. John Cox s letters, in which\\nshe gives her daughter, Mrs. James Chestnut,\\nof Camden, South Carolina, so much of the\\ngossip, gay and grave, of the Philadelphia\\n^vorld, she speaks of the gayety of the w^inter\\nof 1806. There being no Assembly that season,\\nshe says that there have been many private\\nballs, given by Mrs. Nicklin, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs.\\nJohn Bradford Wallace, and by her daughter,\\nMrs. John Redman Coxe, in addition to which\\na number of musical parties were given in\\nMadame Moreau s honor. Her accomplish-\\nments, says Mrs. Cox, are the constant\\ntheme. Her performance on the Harp, Piano,\\nTamborine c are greater than has ever been\\nexhibited here and her dancing exceeds all\\npraise. With great pride in her daughter\\nElizabeth s simple, domestic tastes, the result\\nof her country bringing up, the good mother\\nadds I must tell you of Betsy s speech last\\nweek I went there in the evening, when she\\nwas dressed waiting for the carriage to take\\nher to M Nicklin s Ball Oh how I wish\\nI lived in the country [she exclaimed] where I\\nII 161", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nneed not have this trouble of dressing being\\nin a crowd I could be content never to Dance\\nbut on the green with my children.\\nMost of the foreign visitors, and many of\\nthe cabinet officers and American statesmen\\n\\\\vho came to Philadelphia during the first\\nand second administrations, found their way\\nto another drawing-room, very different from\\nthat of Mrs. Bingham, but equally charming\\nand distinguished in its way. Mrs. George\\nLogan, of Stenton, was far too consistent a\\nFriend to have called the circle of intellectual\\nmen and women which she gathered around\\nher by the worldly French title of salon but\\nsuch it was to all intents and purposes. Here,\\nin her country-place, Stenton, situated on the\\nGermantown Road above Nicetown, in a spa-\\ncious house built by the first James Logan,\\nthe elegant and cultivated Quaker lady drew\\naround her an interesting and appreciative\\nlittle coterie.\\nPresident Washington visited the Logans at\\nStenton, and Mrs. Logan has left a pleasant\\npicture of the great soldier and statesman.\\nDr. George Logan had been making some ex-\\nperiments upon his farm which interested\\nWashington, who, like Jefferson, was always\\na farmer, no matter what other subjects might\\nclaim his attention. He came, says Mrs.\\nThis V7as Elizabeth Cox, who married the distinguished\\nla^vyer, Horace Binney. The Mrs. Nicklin who gave the\\nball was probably Mrs. Philip Nicklin,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Juliana Chew.\\nz62", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nLogan, with his friend Daniel Jennifer, Esq,\\nof Maryland, who had often before been with\\nus, and passed a day at Stenton in the most\\nsocial and friendly manner imaginable, de-\\nlighted with the fine grass-land and beautiful\\nexperiments with gypsum, some of which\\nplainly showed initials and words traced with\\nit upon the sod of a far richer hue and thick-\\nness than the surrounding grass, and other\\nsubjects of rural economy which Dr. Logan\\nthen had to show. His praise conferred dis-\\ntinction. Nor did he make me less happy by\\nhis pleasing attention to myself and his kind\\nnotice of my children, whom he caressed in\\nthe most endearing manner, placing my little\\nboy on his knee, and taking my infant in his\\narms with commendations that made their\\nway immediately to a mother s heart.\\nIn the home of her girlhood Mrs. Logan,\\nthen Deborah Norris, had been accustomed to\\nmeeting many interesting and distinguished\\npersons, who were drawn to the fireside of the\\nQuaker widow, says Mrs. Wister, by the\\nlively common sense of her talk. Deborah\\nNorris lost her father when she was under\\nfive years of age, and to her mother, Mary\\nParker Norris, she owed many of her dis-\\ntinguishing traits. An incident, which shows\\nhow early Deborah Norris developed the social\\ntact and ability that made her home at Stenton\\nso charming a resort, was related by one of\\nthe French travellers in America during the\\nRevolution. One day the Chevalier de Ter-\\nZ63", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nnant, a charming and accomplished young\\nFrenchman who served under Baron Steuben\\nduring the Revolution, called to pay his re-\\nspects to Mrs. Norris and her fair daughter.\\nThe drawing-room was full of old friends and\\npersons of their o^vn religious persuasion, be-\\ntween whom and the accomplished foreigner\\nthere seemed little in common. Deborah\\nlooked anxiously round, and presently singled\\nout Humphrey Marshall, a distinguished natu-\\nralist, but a man of the plainest address, and\\npresented them to each other, adroitly turn-\\ning the conversation upon botany, which she\\nknew to be a favorite science of De Ternan s,\\nand then left them, to look after other guests.\\nAfter a long talk, De Ternan came up to her\\nwith the inquiry, Miss Norris, have you many\\nsuch men as this Mr. Marshall among you?\\nMany of the statesmen and literary men\\nwho resorted to Stenton were drawn thither\\nby their interest in Dr. George Logan, who\\nwas a member of the State Legislature, after-\\nwards United States Senator from Pennsyl-\\nvania, a man of cultivation, a politician of\\nvery pronounced view^s, agreeing on certain\\nsalient points with Mr. Jefferson, and a lover\\nAlthough written Ternan by the narrator, this was\\nevidently the Chevalier Ternant, who was associated with\\nMajor Fleury in the inspection of the troops at Valley\\nForge under Baron Steuben. Washington Irving says\\nthat M. Ternant w^as chosen, not only for his merit and\\nabilities, but because he also possessed the important\\nqualification of speaking English as well as French.\\n164", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof peace, as became his religious profession.\\nIf Dr. Logan s visitors lingered long over a\\ncup of tea in Mrs. Logan s drawing-room, it\\nwas because her conversation was of more\\nthan ordinary interest, and that she entered\\nwith her husband and his friends into the dis-\\ncussions of the hour appears from her own\\nmodest record. Mr. Jefferson was an intimate\\nfriend of the Logans, and was frequently at\\nStenton during his residence in Philadelphia.\\nYears after Mrs. Logan wrote I have not\\nforgotten the force and expansion of Jefferson s\\narguments, delivered in a beautiful simplicity\\nof language, and a politeness of manner that\\ndisarmed offence, yet with a strength that\\ndefied refutation when Reason was admitted\\nto sit as judge. In general, this shrewd and\\nobserving woman thought that Mr. Jefferson\\ndid not allow his political prejudice or party\\nspirit to w^arp his judgment; yet in one case\\nshe considered that he failed in entire fairness,\\nas she added I saw that he wanted sincerity\\nto^vards General Washington, whom I had\\nalways revered and could not bear to hear\\nmentioned in terms that implied the smallest\\ndiminution of his character or qualities.\\nMany heated discussions upon the princi-\\nples of the French Revolution and America s\\nattitude towards France took place in Mrs.\\nLogan s drawing-room or under the beautiful\\ntrees of Stenton. Upon one of these occa-\\nsions, w^hen hot-headed, radical Genet was\\npresent, he rose from his chair, says Mrs.\\n165", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nLogan, and baffled in argument, but retaining\\nhis good humor and gentlemanly demeanor,\\nhe exclaimed, in his (then) imperfect English,\\nWell, gentlemen, if my country were once\\nhappily settled in peace and the enjoyment of\\nher rights, as yours is now, I would sit under\\nmy own vine and trees as you do, but I would\\ndisclaim political disquisitions altogether I\\nwould never suffer a gazette to enter my\\nhouse.\\nAmong Mrs. Logan s earlier guests was the\\ngreat Franklin, for whom she and Dr. Logan\\nhad a warm friendship, and the Polish exile\\nKosciusko, who stayed at Stenton for some\\nw^eeks, and found, says the Quaker lady,\\namong these rural scenes, some of that balm\\nfor the incurable hurt of his noble heart which\\nthe companionship of Nature only could ad-\\nminister.\\nTo Stenton there came, in earlier and later\\ntimes, Mr. John Vaughan, the most benevo-\\nlent and genial of men Major Pierce Butler,\\nwhose country-place was quite near on the\\nYork Road; the French patriot, Dupont de\\nNemours the brilliant and eccentric John\\nRandolph of Roanoke Peter S. Duponceau,\\na French jurist, who had been aide-de-camp to\\nBaron Steuben during the war, and the w^itty\\nAbb^ Correa de Serra, Portuguese Minister to\\nthe United States, with whom his gentle and\\nDeborah Logan, the Quaker Lady, by Mrs. Owen J.\\nWister.\\nz66", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nlearned hostess could converse upon his favor-\\nite subject, the flora of the country, or show\\nhim a choice treasure, the dormant jerboa\\n(jumping mouse), which had been turned up\\nby the plough, and which she was tenderly\\ncherishing in a closet. Here doubtless came\\nthe great physician, after whom the English\\nnaturalist named the luxuriant vine, with its\\ngraceful clusters of purple flow^ers, which is\\nnow known all over the world as the Wistaria.\\nDr. Caspar Wistar s own country-seat was\\nnot far from Stenton, on the other side of\\nGermantown, on School-House Lane. The\\nold house still stands, embowered in rare and\\nbeautiful trees, w^ith a garden old-fashioned\\nenough to bring despair to the hearts of all\\nmodern projectors of old-time gardens.\\nOther visitors Mrs. Logan had during Dr.\\nLogan s absence in France in the summer of\\n1798, who came to Stenton from Philadelphia,\\nwhich was again a plague-stricken city. Many\\nof these guests were the members of her own\\nfamily, Logans and Norrises, and often to the\\nnumber of twenty or more at one time. For\\nthis large family the Quaker lady, who was\\nThomas Nuttall, who named the Wistaria after Dr.\\nCaspar Wistar, -was often at the Germantown home of\\nMr. Charles J. Wister, who was also a distinguished\\nbotanist. Mr. Nuttall found many of his correspondents\\nupon scientific subjects in the Philosophical Society of\\nPhiladelphia, as Mr. William Hamilton, William Bartram,\\nand the Reverend Louis de Schweinitz, of Bethlehem,\\nPennsylvania, another great botanist.\\n167", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nan admirable housekeeper despite her love of\\nliterature and her frequent flights into poetry,\\nprovided with ready hospitality, declaring that\\nthis sudden influx of guests was far better\\nthan for her to be left in solitude.\\nWhile the yellow-fever -was raging in Phila-\\ndelphia, from which all communication was\\ncut off, we may believe that Mrs. Logan s\\nfortunate visitors held many discussions with\\nregard to what was naturally a vital question\\nof the hour, w^hether Dr. Benjamin Rush s\\ntreatment of the epidemic, which was to\\nbleed, bleed, and again to bleed, was as good\\nas Dr. Caspar Wistar s milder methods of\\ndealing with the malady.\\nGermantown, as in the summer of 1793,\\nproved a safe and convenient refuge for Phila-\\ndelphians in 1797, 98, and 99, in which years\\nthere were more or less severe visitations of\\nyellow-fever. Miss Susan Binney, in writing\\nto a cousin in November, 1799, speaks of having\\nspent the summer in a rural and healthy\\nsituation fixed in the vicinity of the yellow\\nfever metropolis Germantown.\\nMrs. John Cox wrote to her daughter, Mrs.\\nJames Chestnut, in August, 1797, that the fever\\nhas again appeared, and that she intends to\\nclose her house and go to Trenton. To-\\nmorrow, she adds, will bring on poor Sister\\nS s trial, as she must leave behind her the\\n*This vras Colonel John Cox s daughter Sarah, who was\\nengaged to the distinguished Dr. John Redman Coxe, who\\n168", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Mrs. John Redman Coxe\\nBy Thomas Sully", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfriend of her heart, who is engaged in attending\\nthe sick daily witnessing the progress of the\\nfever. Though all the Physicians say it yields\\neasier to the power of medicine now than in\\n93, yet they all agree that many have died\\nD C. has not thought it necessary for us to\\nleave Town to within two days, and the good\\nold D Redman has visited me every few days\\nand begged me to keep quiet that he would\\ncertainly let me know if it grew^ w^orse, or\\ncrept up from the Street where it took its rise,\\nw^hich w^as Penn street near the Water Yes-\\nterday he said it was time for us to go.\\nThere was evidently much discussion in\\nthose years with regard to the proper treat-\\nment of yellow^-fever, in the journals of the\\nday, as well as in medical circles. A Philadel-\\nphia lady, in writing to a Southern relative,\\nsaid I suppose you see our papers in which\\nour Physicians are at War with each other.\\nI hope it will have the good effect of bringing\\nremained at his post in Philadelphia while his lady love\\nwent to Trenton with her mother. Dr. Coxe was in a most\\nexposed position, being one of the four physicians appointed\\nto report the cases of fever to the Board of Health. In\\nanother part of her letter Mrs. Cox says that for this reason\\nDr. Coxe urges their departure, although the general opinion\\nis that the disease cannot be communicated by a third per-\\nson. Dr, John Redman Coxe lived safely through the epi-\\ndemic, and married Miss Sarah Cox, by which means she\\nadded an e to her name, and thus brought lasting confusion\\ninto the ranks of the Coxs and Coxes, only equalled by that\\nwrought by the Wisters and Wistars.\\n169", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntruth to light at last It is a great pity they\\ncannot agree. W^hat makes it worse is that\\nthose who ran away for fear of the Yellow\\nFever spent their time in scribbling against\\nthose who were risking their lives in the cause\\nof humanity.\\nHowever the medical world of that day, and\\nthe laity also, may have differed with regard\\nto the origin and treatment of the epidemic,\\nthere can be no question as to the personal\\ncourage and devotion to duty of such men as\\nDr. John Redman, one of the oldest Philadel-\\nphia physicians, his grandson, Dr. John Red-\\nman Coxe, Dr. Rush, Dr. Caspar Wistar, the\\nDuffields, Michael Leib, Samuel P. Griffitts,\\nPhilip Syng Physick, Samuel Cooper, and\\nmany others. As a proof of the faithful ser-\\nvice of the good doctors of old Philadelphia, it\\nhas been estimated that out of the twenty-five\\nphysicians then in the active practice of their\\nprofession, nine lost their lives while attending\\nthe yellow-fever patients. Among these were\\nDr. Samuel Pleasants, Dr. Annan, Dr. James\\nHutchinson, and Dr. Thompson, who was\\ntaken ill upon his wedding day and died three\\ndays later. Dr. Physick was twice stricken\\nwith the fever, and each time returned heroi-\\ncally to his post.\\nBush Hill, where Mr. Adams and his family\\nhad lived during the first years of their resi-\\ndence in Philadelphia, was converted into a\\nyellow-fever hospital, and here two citizens of\\nforeign parentage, Stephen Girard and Peter\\n170", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUifXICAN\\nHelm, gave to the city of their adoption the\\nnoblest and most unwearied service.\\nStephen Girard, whom we are \\\\vont to re-\\ngard simply as a shrewd, money-getting man,\\nnot only fitted up the Bush Hill Hospital at a\\nlarge expense to himself, but in the absence\\nof competent nurses often ministered to the\\nneeds of the patients. From records and let-\\nters of the time, it appears that Mr. Girard\\nand Mr. Helm conveyed many fever-stricken\\npersons from their homes to the hospital,\\nw^hich they visited daily, risking their lives\\nin their efforts to relieve the misery of its\\ninmates.\\nFor her generosity in opening wide her\\ngates to the exile and the homeless from Saint\\nDomingo and other islands of the Southern\\nsea, Philadelphia has more than twice suffered\\nthe scourge of a great pestilence; nor has the\\nw^armth of her w^elcome to the stranger abated\\nin consequence of these sad experiences, for\\nto-day, as in that olden time, may be w^ritten\\nof this City of Brotherly Love the gracious\\nScriptural encomium, given to hospitality.\\n171", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCHAPTER V. LIFE IN THE FEDERAL\\nCITY\\nTHE City of Washington, like Phila-\\ndelphia, is said to have been laid out\\nafter the plan of ancient Babylon\\nbut there are few persons to-day who will not\\nunite w^ith Mr. Jefferson in repudiating the\\nidea of any similarity of design between these\\nwidely dissimilar cities. In one of Mr. Jeffer-\\nson s letters he says that, in compliance w^ith\\na request from Major L Enfant, he has sent\\nhim accurate plans and scales of Paris, Mar-\\nseilles, Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Strasburg, and\\nother European cities, -which had been made\\nduring visits to these places, adding, they\\nare, none of them, comparable to the old\\nBabylon, revived in Philadelphia, and exem-\\nplified. Philadelphia griddled across Ver-\\nsailles, said one writer in describing the plan\\nof the capital city. Some thought of the\\ngrounds of the old palace of the Bourbons\\nmay have been in the mind of the French\\nengineer to whom is due much of the beauty\\nof this unique American city, with its avenues\\nradiating from a chief centre, the Capitol, and\\nagain from stars of less magnitude in the form\\nof small parks and circles. A vast labyrinth\\nof streets, drives, and parks, ornamented with\\nfountains, statues, and parterres, is this city\\nwhich L Enfant designed for the residence of\\n172", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nhalf a million of people, whose possibilities\\nfew men of that day could foresee.\\nBecause W^ashington died before Congress\\nwas removed to the new capital, we are wont\\nto forget how^ deep his interest \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was and how\\nmuch he had to do with the beginnings of the\\nfair city, w^hich was destined to bear his name.\\nHe, like a few other practical men, and many\\nspeculative ones, believed in the ultimate\\ngreatness of the Federal City, although in 1793,\\nwhen the corner-stone of the Capitol was laid,\\nit required considerable imagination to picture\\na metropolis upon the ten-mile square, as\\nthe District of Columbia was first called. A\\nplain, bordered by thickly wooded hills, with\\nthe Potomac winding through its centre, was\\nthe site of the future capital. The ground was\\nmarshy in some places and quite uncultivated,\\nthe surface being covered with scrub oaks and\\nthe undergrowth that flourishes in swampy\\nplaces.\\nPresident Washington, to w^hom all this\\ncountry had been familiar from his boyhood,\\nwho had encamped with the Braddock expedi-\\ntion upon this w^ell-watered plain, chose it for\\nthe site of the national capital, and his choice\\nwas accepted by Jefferson and Madison, who\\n^vere associated with him. He at once bought\\nlots in the ten-mile square, and used every\\neffort to stimulate others to do the same, al-\\nthough he entirely disapproved of Mr. Blod-\\nget s plan to establish a lottery to expedite\\nthe sale of property. During the President s\\n173", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsummer vacations he frequently rode over\\nfrom Mount Vernon to superintend the work\\ngoing on in the new city, and in his letters\\nhe often records these visits to what he mod-\\nestly called the Federal City, although the\\nname Washington for the city, and Dis-\\ntrict of Columbia for the ten-mile square\\nupon which it was situated, had been decided\\nupon by the commission as early as 1791.\\nUpon these occasions, the President stopped\\nwith Mr. Thomas Law or Mr. Thomas Peter.\\nBoth of these gentlemen, who had married\\nMrs. Washington s granddaughters, early built\\nhouses for themselves in the new capital, and\\ninvested in lots there. Mr. Madison, Mr.\\nDickinson, General Howard, and Mr. Samuel\\nBlodget, who w^as for a time Superintendent\\nof the Federal City, all invested extensively in\\nbuilding-lots.\\nMr. Twining gives an interesting description\\nof his attempts to find the residence of Mr.\\nThomas La v in the forest of Washington,\\nwhich then, in 1795, was pierced through with\\navenues in a more or less perfect state. After\\ngoing about three quarters of a mile through a\\nsilent wilderness, he says, I found myself\\nupon a trackless plain partially covered with\\ntrees and brushw^ood. I in vain looked about\\nfor Mr. Law s house or some one to guide me\\nto it. I therefore rode on in the direction I\\njudged the most likely to lead me out of this\\nlabyrinth. I knew that in case of my not suc-\\nceeding, my retreat was always open to the\\n174", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Thomas Law\\nBv Gilbert Stuart", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCapitol, for while talking with the workmen I\\nobserved that all the avenues converged to\\nthat point. I continued therefore to explore\\nmy way through thickets, keeping my horse s\\nhead rather towards the right, to gain, if neces-\\nsary, the Potomac, whose bank I might then\\nfollov7.\\nI had not proceeded far before I saw a\\ncarriage issue from the forest beyond the plain,\\nand I soon perceived that it was making for a\\nsmall bridge, which I now discovered for the\\nfirst time, considerably to the right of the point\\nfor \\\\vhich I was making. As it approached\\nthe hope I indulged was confirmed. It was\\nMr. Law s chariot, which in the expectation\\nof my arrival at Georgetown, Mr. Law had\\nsent for me. The coachman tying my horse\\nbehind, we recrossed the small bridge, passed\\nthrough the forest I had seen, and a second\\nplain beyond it, and reached the banks of the\\nPotomac. In a few minutes more we arrived\\nat Mr. Law^ s, where I had a most cordial re-\\nception.\\nIn the afternoon Mr. Law took me about\\nhis new estate. His house, built by himself,\\nwas only a few yards from the steep bank of\\nthe Potomac, and commanded a fine view\\nacross the river, here half a mile wide. In\\nthe rear of the house Mr. Lav\\\\; was building a\\nstreet, consisting of much smaller houses than\\nhis own, speculating upon a great increase in\\ntheir value when the expected transfer of the\\nseat of government should be effected.\\n175", "height": "2959", "width": "1649", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nRobert Morris, with John Nicholson and\\nJames Greenleaf, who were associated with\\nhim in business, invested heavily in Wash-\\nington lots, and lost in the same proportion,\\nprobably because they were attempting to\\nhold too much land elsewhere at the same\\ntime, and because the Washington property\\nrequired ready capital for improvements, and\\ndid not rise in value as rapidly as was ex-\\npected.\\nMajor L Enfant, who had rendered valuable\\nservice to the engineer corps during the Revo-\\nlution, and who had later remodelled the City\\nHall in New York and planned Congress Hall\\nin Philadelphia, w^as chosen as the engineer\\nfor the laying out of the capital. The choice\\nwas an admirable one in some respects but,\\nalthough possessed of great ability, Major\\nL Enfant was at times carried by his imagina-\\ntion beyond the bonds of practicability, and\\nwas unwilling to be guided by the common\\nsense of his associates. President Washing-\\nton summed up the case in his own terse, for-\\ncible manner by saying that Major L Enfant\\nwas as well qualified for the work as any man\\nliving, but the knowledge of this fact magni-\\nfied his self-esteem.\\nThe French Minister jocosely remarked, in\\nallusion to the alphabetical and numerical\\nnames of the streets, that L Enfant was not\\nonly a child in name, but in education also;\\nas from the names he gave the streets, he ap-\\npeared to know little else than A, B, C, and i,\\n176", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\n2, 3. It appears, however, from a letter of\\nthe Commissioners, that these names were\\nsuggested by them, and, in all probability,\\nthose of the principal avenues which bear the\\nnames of the sixteen States then in the Union.\\nThe headstrong and over-sensitive French-\\nman finally quarrelled with the Commissioners\\nand lost his place. To Andrew Ellicott, a\\nPennsylvania Quaker, was entrusted the task\\nof carrying out, with some modifications, the\\nplan of Major L Enfant.\\nWhatever may have been the faults of Major\\nL Enfant, it should never be forgotten that to\\nhis large grasp of the situation and its possi-\\nbilities, is chiefly due the great beauty of the\\nnational capital, ^vhich has grown and spread\\nout along the lines laid out by him.\\nThe broad plateau overlooking the Potomac\\nsuggested a fitting site for the Capitol. This\\ntract of land was owned by Daniel Carroll, and\\nwas upon the same property as his country-\\nseat, Duddington Manor, which during the\\nearly years of life in the Federal City was the\\nscene of much generous hospitality.\\nThe first plan for the Capitol was designed\\nby Dr. William Thornton, a native of the\\nWest Indies and a friend of Mr. Jefferson,\\nwho suggested to the architect the cotton\\nblossom, tobacco leaf, and other original and\\nappropriate emblems, which were afterwards\\nThe Seat of Government of the United States, by\\nJoseph B. Varnum, Jr.\\n12 177", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nemployed in the decoration of the building. It\\nhas often been stated that Dr. Thornton was\\nthe architect of the Capitol but although his\\nplan possessed great merit and \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was at first ap-\\nproved, Mr. Carstairs and Colonel Williams,\\nwho formed the Commission on Architecture,\\nfound it impracticable in some respects and\\nmore expensive than a design presented by\\nStephen L. Hallett, a French architect v/ho\\nresided in New York. This latter plan was\\naccepted by the Commissioners, and Mr.\\nJames Hoban, Superintendent of the Capitol,\\nwas advised to begin the work upon the plan\\nexhibited by Mr. Hallett, leaving the recess\\nin the east front open to further considera-\\ntion.\\nDr. Thornton s attitude in this matter seems\\nto have been most courteous, as he asked to\\nhave his plan submitted to a competent com-\\nmission. He was really an amateur, although\\npossessed of excellent taste in architecture. f\\nOne charming idea of Major L Enfant, which\\nif carried out would have added much to the\\nMr. Hoban, an Irish architect, not only supervised the\\nbuilding of the Capitol, but planned the White House,\\nwhich is said to have been copied from the residence of an\\nIrish nobleman in Dublin.\\nt Mr. Charles Burr Todd, in his Story of Washington,\\nsays that this much-controverted point with regard to the\\nauthorship of the plan of the Capitol has been definitely\\nsettled by reference to the Washington letters in the State\\nDepartment, and by letters of General Washington to the\\nCommissioners, preserved in the War Department.\\n178", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nbeauty of this city, was to have the White\\nHouse connected with the Capitol by a garden,\\nor series of parterres, after the plan of the\\nChamber of Deputies and the Tuileries in\\nParis. Instead of Major L Enfant s fair gar-\\nden, there lay for many years between the\\nCapitol and the White House two miles of\\ntenacious yellow mud.\\nWhen the Congress moved from Philadel-\\nphia to its future municipal home, in the first\\nyear of the new century, there were not only\\nno gardens around the Capitol and the W^hite\\nHouse, but streets and avenues were still an\\nunknow^n luxury.\\nGouverneur Morris said of Washington in\\nthese early days, that it was the best city in\\nthe world for a future residence. We want\\nnothing here but houses, cellars, kitchens,\\nwell informed men, amiable women, and other\\nlittle trifles of this kind, to make our city per-\\nfect. A climax in the way of comparisons\\nwas reached when Mr. Jackson, British Min-\\nister, as late as 1809, likened the Federal City\\nto Hampstead Heath, and declared that he\\nhad started a covey of partridges about three\\nhundred yards from the House of Congress.\\nThe serious inconveniences of living in a\\ncity, that was only completed upon paper, may\\nbe gathered from the letters of senators and\\nrepresentatives. Mr. Oliver Wolcott wrote\\nto his v^ife I have made every exertion to\\nsecure good lodgings near the office, but shall\\nbe compelled to take them at the distance of\\n179", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nmore than half a mile. There are in fact but\\nfew houses at any one place, and most of\\nthem small, miserable huts, which present an\\nawful contrast to the public buildings. The\\npeople are poor, and, as far as I can judge,\\nthey live like fishes, by eating each other. All\\nthe ground for several miles around the city,\\nbeing, in the opinion of the people, too valu-\\nable to be cultivated, remains unfenced. There\\nare but few enclosures, even for gardens, and\\nthose are in bad order. You may look in al-\\nmost any direction over an extent of ground\\nnearly as large as the city of New York, -with-\\nout seeing a fence or any object except brick\\nkilns and temporary huts for laborers.\\nMrs. Adams and her party while going to\\nthe capital lost their way in the woods be-\\ntween Baltimore and Washington, and after\\nwandering about without finding a guide or a\\npath, met a straggling black, who extricated\\nthem from their difficulties. Woods, she\\nadds, are all you see from Baltimore until\\nyou reach the city, which is only so in name.\\nMrs. Adams, in writing to her daughter\\nin November, 1800, soon after her arrival in\\nW^ashington, says that there are enough build-\\nings to accommodate Congress, but all so\\nscattered that little comfort is to be expected.\\nThe W^hite House she considers upon a\\ngrand and superb scale, requiring about thirty\\nservants to attend and keep the apartments in\\nproper order, and perform the ordinary busi-\\nness of the house and stables an establish-\\n180", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nment very well proportioned to the President s\\nsalary. The lighting the apartments, from\\nkitchen to parlours and chambers is a tax in-\\ndeed. The ^vork of the house, she adds, \\\\vas\\nseriously retarded by having no bells in this\\ngreat castle, and no fence or yard around it,\\nwhich necessitated the drying of the clothes\\nin the large audience room. This good lady s\\nw^oes at Bush Hill, near Philadelphia, pale\\nbefore her pioneer experiences in this new\\ncountry. Surrounded by forests, she found it\\nalmost impossible to get enough wood to build\\nsufficient fires in the freshly plastered house to\\nkeep off the ague. The principal stairs were\\nnot up, and would not be until spring. She\\nsays that only six chambers were habitable,\\nt wo of which were occupied by the President\\nand Mr. Shaw in short, the outlook for the\\nnext six months was rather gloomy. It is not\\nstrange that this energetic Nev*^ England\\nwoman, in summing up the salient points of\\nthe situation, should have come to the con-\\nclusion that, if the twelve or thirteen years\\nin which this place has been considered as the\\nfuture seat of government, had been improved,\\nas they would have been in New England,\\nvery many of the present inconveniences\\nwould have been removed.\\nSome bright spots this clever little woman\\nfound in her Washington life, as in all her\\nother trying experiences. The incomparable\\nMrs. Bingham, Miss Hamilton, and kindly\\nMrs. Powel were not here to comfort her as\\ni8i", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin Philadelphia, but many ladies came from\\nthe hospitable old towns of Alexandria and\\nGeorgetown to welcome the President s lady.\\nThese guests, Mrs. Adams was obliged to re-\\nceive in a general parlor, hastily fitted up the\\noval room w^ith handsome crimson furniture,\\nwhich was designed for a drawing-room, not\\nbeing completed. There also came a prompt\\nnote of welcome from Mrs. Lawrence Lewis,\\nwith love from her widowed grandmother, the\\nmistress of Mount Vernon, and an invitation\\nto Mrs. Adams to visit her there, which the\\nNew England lady says that she intends to\\ndo, health permitting. If Mrs. Adams ac-\\ncomplished this visit, no letters describing it\\nhave been preserved. Other visitors to Mount\\nVernon, in these days after the General s death,\\nhave left pleasant descriptions of the welcome\\nthat was extended to them by Mrs. Washing-\\nton, who put aside her own grief to exercise\\nthe hospitality that -was as distinguishing a\\ntrait of the mistress, as it had been of the\\nmaster, of Mount Vernon.\\nMrs. Adams s letters to her daughter at this\\ntime are either less frequent or too confi-\\ndential and intimate for publication, and the\\nreader of to-day misses such brilliant, graphic\\npictures of persons and scenes in Washing-\\nton, as have preserved for future generations\\nMrs. Adams s impressions of Court life in the\\nOld World, or of that of the early years of the\\nRepublic in New York and in Philadelphia.\\nThe buoyant spirit that enabled her to rise\\n182\\n1", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nabove all the trials and difficulties of her life\\nand to declare, in the midst of perplexities\\nabout her children and anxiety about her absent\\nhusband, that she was a mortal enemy to\\nanything but a cheerful countenance and a\\nmerry heart, seems to have sometimes for-\\nsaken Abigail Adams during the early months\\nof her residence in Washington. Her health\\nwas not good, and she had been depressed by\\nthe trying political campaign through which\\nher husband had passed, which had made it\\nquite plain that there would be no second term\\nin office for Mr. Adams.\\nThis combination of adverse circumstances\\nmay have caused Mrs. Adams s sarcasm to be\\nsomewhat more trenchant than in earlier and\\nhappier days. In speaking of the delay in the\\nmeeting of Congress, she says, evidently re-\\nferring to Mr. Jefferson The Senate is much\\nbehind-hand. No Congress has yet been made.\\nTis said is on his way, but travels\\nwith so many delicacies in his rear, that he\\ncannot get on fast, lest some of them should\\nsuffer.\\nThe ladies probably the Georgetown and\\nAlexandria ladies as well as the cabinet women\\nwere impatient for a drawing-room, said\\nMrs. Adams, and a drawing-room they had\\non New^ Year s Day, 1801, although, as she\\nwrote to her daughter, there -were no looking\\nglasses but dwarfs for this house, nor a twen-\\ntieth part lamps enough to light it. Presi-\\ndent Adams received in the first-floor rooms,\\n183", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand Mrs. Adams held her drawing-room in\\nthe oval room on the second floor, which was\\nafterwards used as a library.\\nMr. Dana feaillie Worden, an Irish gentle-\\nman, who was sometime Secretary to the\\nAmerican Legation at Paris, in his recollec-\\ntions of official life in Washington early in\\nthe century, speaks with warm admiration\\nof the ladies in the territory of Columbia.\\nThe state of female society at Washing-\\nton, says Mr. W^orden, does great honor to\\nthe sex. They have been accused of sacri-\\nficing too much to the empire of fashion, but\\nas we have not been able to verify the ex-\\ntent of this tribute, it would be dangerous\\nto decide on so delicate a subject. They are\\ncertainly superior women, generally highly\\ngifted in mental as they are with personal\\nadornments. They have hitherto withstood\\nthe lamentable ravages which art and luxury\\nhave, in other great cities, produced upon the\\nsex. There is an evil, however, \\\\vhich is\\ndeeply lamented. It is natural to love those\\nwho are made to be loved; and no sooner do\\nthe young ladies of Washington arrive at the\\nnubile age than they give their hands to some\\n\\\\vooing stranger or Member of Congress, w^ho\\ncarries them off to his distant home. The\\nyoung citizens who have been daily contem-\\nplating the regular advances of these shoots\\ninto perfection, disappointed in their ardent\\nintentions, sigh and exclaim (not without\\nreason) against the corruptions of the times,\\n184", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nagainst family interest and an unnatural, dis-\\nheartening preference to foreigners. Wash-\\nington thus resembles a nursery whose fine\\nplants are annually transplanted to foreign and\\nless congenial soil. Respectable strangers,\\nafter the slightest introduction, are invited to\\ndinners and evening parties. Those at the\\nPresident s house unite simplicity with the\\ngreatest refinement of manners. Tea parties\\nhave become very expensive, as not only tea\\nbut coffee, negus, cakes, sweetmeats, iced\\ncreams, wine and liquors are often presented,\\nand in a sultry summer evening are found too\\npalatable to be refused. In winter there is a\\nsuccession of family balls, where all this spe-\\ncies of luxury is exhibited.\\nDuring the Presidential election of 1800,\\nthere occurred the very remarkable tie be-\\ntween Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr,\\nwhich threw the important choice into the\\nHouse of Representatives. After seven days\\nballoting, it was announced on February 17,\\n1801, that ten States, a sufficient number, had\\nvoted for Mr. Jefferson as President of the\\nUnited States. In a periodical of the time,\\nthere appeared the following description of\\nthe part taken by Judge Nicholson in this\\nelectoral contest, w^hich gives a good idea of\\nthe spirit and determination of the old-time\\nJefferson Democrat\\nAt the time of the election by the House,\\nthe result depended on a single vote. Mr.\\nJoseph Hopper Nicholson, one of the Repre-\\n18S", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsentatives from Maryland, had been for some\\nweeks confined to his bed, and was so ill that\\nhis life was considered in danger. Ill as he\\nwas, he insisted on being carried to the Hall\\nof Representatives, in order to give his vote.\\nThe physicians absolutely forbade such a pro-\\nceeding. He insisted, and they appealed to his\\nwife, telling her such a removal and the con-\\nsequent excitement might prove fatal to his\\nlife. Be it so then, said she if my hus-\\nband must die, let it be at the post of duty.\\nNo weakness of mine shall oppose his noble\\nresolution. The patient vi^as carried to the\\nCapitol, where a bed w^as prepared for him in\\nan ante-room adjoining the Senate Chamber,\\nfollowed by his heroic wife, where during the\\nfour or five days and nights of balloting she\\nremained by his side, supporting by various\\nrestoratives much more by her presence\\nthe strength of the feeble invalid, who with\\ndifficulty traced the name of Jefferson each\\ntime that the ballot box was handed to him.\\nMrs. Nicholson, who under these trying cir-\\ncumstances proved herself to have been a\\nwoman of courage and spirit, developed these\\ntraits at an early age, as appears from a story\\nof her childhood preserved in the Lloyd fam-\\nily, of Maryland. Upon the approach of the\\nBritish, who afterw^ards burned her father s,\\nColonel Lloyd s, house, Rebecca was taken\\nout of bed ^vith the other children and hurried\\nto a place of safety. Instead of being fright-\\nened by this unusual proceeding, the little\\nz86", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0236.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Joseph Hupper Nicholson\\nBy Richard Cosway\\nCharles Hall\\nPage 213", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0237.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0238.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ngirl s wrath was aroused against the invading\\nenemy, of whom she made uncomplimen-\\ntary remarks, which she had doubtless heard\\nfrom her elders, and concluded by exclaiming,\\nD the British, they shan t take the buckle\\noff my tipper [slipper].\\nMrs. Nicholson s sister, Mary Lloyd, mar-\\nried Francis Scott Key, the author of the\\nStar Spangled Banner.\\nJoseph Hopper Nicholson, who was after-\\nwards Presiding Judge of the Baltimore Court\\nof Appeals, was a member of Congress during\\nMr. Jefferson s administration, and with his\\nwife spent much of his time in Washington.\\nMr. Henry Adams says that the much-\\nquoted tale of an English traveller, who spoke\\nof the President-elect riding on horseback to\\nthe Capitol, unattended by guard or servant,\\ndismounting, hitching his horse to the palings,\\nand entering the halls of legislature to be in-\\nMrs. Rebecca Lloyd Shippen, of Baltimore, a grand-\\ndaughter of Judge Nicholson, who has in her possession\\nthe original manuscript of the Star Spangled Banner,\\nsays that Mr. Key composed the poem while on a vessel in\\nthe Baltimore harbor during the night of the bombardment\\nof Fort McHenry, as has always been stated. The original\\ndraft, in ink and upon the back of an old letter, was written\\nafterwards at the hotel by Mr. Key from his notes and from\\nmemory. This draft Mr. Key took to his brother-in-law,\\nJudge Nicholson, w^ho being a poet and musician, fitted the\\nwords to the tune Anacreon in Heaven, which was much\\nin vogue at that time. Within an hour the song was sent\\nto a printer living near Judge Nicholson s house, and soon\\nafter was sung all over the town.\\n187", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\naugurated with as little ceremony as he would\\nhave observed in going in to breakfast with a\\nfriend, is absolutely without foundation. Mr.\\nDavis, the narrator, was not in the capital at\\nthe time, and Mr. Jefferson, who was stopping\\nat Conrad s boarding-house, within a stone s\\nthrow of the Capitol, walked thither escorted\\nby a body of militia, and accompanied by the\\nSecretaries of the Navy and the Treasury.\\nOther descriptions, not so easily discredited,\\nare those of Senator Maclay, Augustiri Foster,\\nand many another visitor in Washington,\\nwhich represent the brilliant, sagacious, ver-\\nsatile statesman, who was, says Mr. Adams,\\nin the village simplicity of Washington more\\nthan a king, appearing decidedly unkempt as\\nto the hair and toilet, in corduroy small clothes,\\nred plush waistcoat, yarn stockings, and slip-\\npers down at heel. The soul of kindness and\\ngenerosity w^as Jefferson, ^vhom Mr. Forbes\\ndescribed as appearing like a tall large boned\\nfarmer, capable of the most graceful cour-\\ntesy, of compliments galore when ladies were\\npresent, and so given to hospitality that the\\nsteward said that it sometimes cost fifty dol-\\nlars a day to provide for his many guests.\\nMr. Jefferson had not been in ofBce long\\nbefore it became evident that he had made a\\nmistake in abolishing the weekly levee. As\\nthere were no regular receptions held by the\\nPresident, he was accessible to visitors at all\\nhours, except when engaged with his cabinet\\nand during the sessions of Congress. Inter-\\nz88", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nruptions, as frequent as those to which the\\nPresident was subjected, must have proved to\\nbe a sad waste of precious time, as ^vell as ex-\\nceedingly irksome. Nor was this informahty\\nin social matters agreeable to the majority\\nof ^A^ashington residents. There were many\\npersons, especially among the fair sex, who\\nmissed the weekly receptions which they had\\nenjoyed under the preceding administration.\\nSome of the disaffected, whether instigated\\nby the Federalists in Washington or by some\\nof the ladies, hit upon an expedient, says\\nMr. Parton, to balk the president s intention\\nof abolishing the levee. On the usual day, at\\nthe usual hour, two in the afternoon ladies\\nand gentlemen began to arrive at the presi-\\ndent s house, attired in the manner customary\\nat the levees. The president w^as not at home.\\nHe was enjoying his regular two hours ride\\non horseback, which nothing but absolute\\nnecessity could make him forego. When he\\nreturned at three o clock, and learned that the\\ngreat rooms were filled with company waiting\\nto see him, he guessed their object, and frus-\\ntrated it gracefully, and with perfect good\\nhumor, by merely going among them, all ac-\\ncoutred as he was, booted, spurred, splashed\\nwith mud, riding w^hip in hand, and greeting\\nthem as though the conjunction of so many\\nguests were merely a joyous coincidence.\\nThey, in their turn, caught the spirit of the\\njoke, and the affair ended happily. But it was\\nthe last of the levees.\\n189", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAnother innovation made by Mr. Jefferson\\nwas to do away with state dinners as much as\\npossible, and instead to entertain in the hos-\\npitable style of the planter of Old Virginia.\\nThe dining-room of the White House being\\nmuch more accessible than that upon a remote\\nplantation, we can readily believe that Mr.\\nJefferson s dinner-table did not suffer from\\nlack of guests. Edmund Bacon, the steward\\nof Monticello, was often at the White House\\nfor many days in succession. In speaking of\\nthe life there, he said that there were eleven\\nservants in the establishment, besides the\\nFrench cook, French steward, and Irish\\ncoachman. Mr. Bacon recorded that the long\\ndining-table was full every day that he spent\\nin the White House, the company being com-\\nposed of Congressmen, foreigners, and people\\nof all kinds. He dined at four o clock, said\\nMr. Bacon, and they generally sat and talked\\nuntil night. It used to v/eary me to sit so\\nlong and I finally quit when I got through\\neating and went off and left them.\\nWhen Mr. Jefferson gave state dinners, his\\ndisregard of etiquette was sometimes the\\ncause of serious misunderstandings. Mr.\\nMerry, sometime British Minister, who is\\ndescribed as a perfect Turveydrop in mat-\\nters of etiquette, was not only shocked at\\nthe informality of his own reception, but at\\nseeing the President, at a formal dinner at the\\nWhite House, offer his arm to Mrs. Madison\\ninstead of to the guest of the occasion, Mrs.\\n190", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMerry. Poor Merry, says Mr. Parton,\\nmade such an outcry at this in Washington,\\nthat Mr. Madison deemed it best to explain\\nthe circumstances to Mr. Monroe, the Ameri-\\ncan Minister in London, that he might be pre-\\npared to meet Merry s version. Mr. Merry\\ndid relate his grievances to the English Min-\\nister for Foreign Affairs -who, however, forbore\\nto mention it to Monroe. If he had, Monroe\\nwas ready for him for, beside being fully alive\\nto the humor of the affair, he had seen, a few\\nweeks before, in an official London drawing-\\nroom, the wife of an under-secretary of state\\naccorded precedence over his own. Mrs.\\nMerry went no more to the White House,\\nand her husband only went -when official duty\\ncompelled.\\nFortunately for this most democratic admin-\\nistration, the wife of the Secretary of State\\nwas generally at hand to smooth over rough\\nplaces and to give ease and elegance, by her\\npresence and her manners, to functions that\\nwould otherwise have been hopelessly crude.\\nDuring Mr. Jefferson s second administration\\nhis daughters were with him very little Mrs.\\nRandolph \\\\vas naturally absorbed in the care\\nof her large family, and Mrs. Eppes s health\\nfailed soon after her marriage. Mrs. Madison\\nand her sister. Miss Payne, afterwards Mrs.\\nRichard Cutts, were often called upon by Mr.\\nJefferson to preside in the absence of his\\ndaughters. Another sister, Lucy, who mar-\\nried Mr. Washington, made her home with\\n191", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMrs. Madison after her husband s death. Mr.\\nIrving met Mrs. Cutts and Mrs. Washington\\nat the White House, and likened them to\\ntwo merry wives of Windsor.\\nMrs. Madison s exquisite tact, true kindness,\\ngreat adaptabiHty, and personal charm were\\nmuch appreciated in Washington society, and\\nit soon became an established fact that the\\nsocial functions, that v/ere lacking at the White\\nHouse, would be more than compensated for\\nby Mrs. Madison s evening receptions.\\nWith less intellectual ability than Mrs.\\nAdams, and less stability and depth of char-\\nacter than Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Madison\\npossessed far more tact and true knowledge\\nof the world than either of her predecessors.\\nThose who would have dreaded the formality\\nof receptions at the homes of the cabinet\\nofficers or the foreign ministers, were drawn\\nto Mrs. Madison s salon by the irresistible\\nattraction of her personality and the warmth\\nof her welcome. Long before Mr. Madison\\nwas elected President of the United States,\\nMrs. Madison s evenings were important social\\nand political functions, which were attended\\nby literary men, artists, wits and beauties,\\nas well as by statesmen and cabinet ladies,\\nand this not because she -was an intellectual\\nwoman, a wit, or a beauty, but because she\\npossessed the greatest social power that a\\nwoman can wield, the ability to draw men\\nand w^omen of various tastes around her, to\\nhold their interest and admiration, and, above\\n192", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nall, to enable them to appear at their best.\\nIn Mrs. Madison s draAA/^ing-room she shone\\nherself, because she was well fitted to shine\\nby her beauty, her grace and her taet but\\nher greatest talent was her power of making\\nothers shine. Statesmen and diplomats w^ere\\nglad to attend Mrs. Madison s evenings be-\\ncause they admired her and enjoyed the soci-\\nety of those whom she gathered around her,\\nwhile strangers, who came to Washington in\\nthose days, found her drawing-room a place\\nwhere the shyest and the least known were\\nat once made to feel at home by the warm\\nwelcome and unobtrusive attentions of the\\nsympathetic hostess.\\nA number of names comparatively new in\\npolitical life were to be found in Mr. Jeflfer-\\nson s cabinet, as those of Henry Dearborn, of\\nMaine, Secretary of War, Gideon Granger, of\\nConnecticut, Postmaster-General, and Levi\\nLincoln, of Massachusetts, Attorney-General\\nof the United States, side by side with the old\\nfamiliar ones of James Madison, Secretary of\\nState, James Monroe, John Marshall, Chief-\\nJustice, and Albert Gallatin, the Swiss patriot,\\nwho succeeded Mr. Wolcott as Secretary of\\nthe Treasury.\\nIn the diplomatic service were such well-\\nknown faces as those of Mr. David Montague\\nErskine, British Minister, and the Marquis de\\nCasa Yrujo. To the Spanish Minister Mr.\\nJefferson was attached by reason of his politi-\\ncal sentiments and the family connections\\n13 193", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwhich he had made in America, as his father-\\nin-law, Governor McKean, was a personal as\\nwell as a political friend of the President. The\\nMarquis de Casa Yrujo, who afterwards made\\nhimself most unpopular to all parties by the\\nposition taken by him with regard to the\\npurchase of Florida and Louisiana, was a\\nfavored individual during the early years of\\nMr. Jefferson s administration, and to add to\\nhis popularity, he was accompanied by his\\nbeautiful American wife. The second son of\\nthe Marquis de Casa Yrujo, and the only one\\nwho lived to succeed to his father s title and\\nestates, was born in the republican capital.\\nThe magnificence of the Marquis de Casa\\nYrujo in his court costume, upon which\\nwriters of the time were wont to dwell, must\\nupon occasions have been eclipsed by that of\\nthe French Minister, who is thus described\\nby a New Year s caller at the White House\\nAfter partaking of some ice-creams and a\\nglass of Madeira, shaking hands with the\\nPresident and tendering our good wishes, we\\nwere preparing to leave the rooms, when our\\nattention was attracted through the window\\ntowards what w^e conceived to be a rolling\\nball of burnished gold, carried with swiftness\\nthrough the air by two gilt wings. Our anxiety\\nincreased the nearer it approached, until it\\nactually stopped before the door; and from it\\nalighted, weighted with gold lace, the French\\nMinister and suite. We now also perceived\\nthat what we had supposed to be wings, were\\n194", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1900, by C. S. Brailfor.l.\\nLady Erskine\\n(Frances Cadwalader)\\nBv Gilbert Stuart", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nnothing more than gorgeous footmen with\\nchapeaux bras, gilt braided skirts and splen-\\ndid swords. Nothing ever was witnessed in\\nWashington so brilliant and dazzling, a\\nmeridian sun blazing full on this carriage filled\\nwith diamonds and glittering orders, and gilt\\nto the edge of the wheels, you may well\\nimagine how the natives stared and rubbed\\ntheir eyes to be convinced twas no fairy\\ndream.\\nThe Marchioness de Casa Yrujo was not the\\nonly American woman in the corps diploj}iatique,\\nas Frances Cadwalader, who had married Mr.\\nErskine* in 1799, accompanied her husband\\nwhen he was appointed to Mr. Merry s place\\nin Washington.\\nA number of letters written by Mrs. Erskine\\nto her Philadelphia relatives, and by friends\\nand members of her family who surrounded\\nher in England, all testify to the fine traits of\\ncharacter of this young w^oman who married\\nat sixteen, and left her home to live in a foreign\\nland before she was twenty.\\nSarah Brian, a faithful servant in the Cad-\\nwalader and Goldsborough families, who ac-\\ncompanied Mrs. Erskine s mother, Mrs. John\\nCadwalader, to England, and lived for years\\nwith the Erskines, has left several interesting\\ndescriptions of Mrs. Erskine, In one of her\\nletters from England, June 15, 1806, Sarah\\nThe Honorable David Montagfue Erskine became Lord.\\nErskine upon the death of his father in 1823.\\n19s", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nBrian, who seems to have possessed the pen\\nof a ready writer, speaks of Mr. and Mrs.\\nErskine s departure for America. I do not\\nthink, she says, that Mrs. Erskine is altered\\nin the least since she left America either in\\nlook or manners. She has the same sweet-\\nness of temper that she had when she w^as\\nFanny Cadwalader. She was presented (at\\nCourt) about 2 months ago. She was dressed\\nin black crape with black beads done all over\\nand something like a crown on her head with\\nseven large feathers done in stars with jet and\\na great hoop that stuck out 4 yards round.\\nAfter that she went to the King s birthday\\nShe was dressed in white crape all done\\nthrough with white beads, and something like\\na crown on her head with 7 great white feath-\\ners diamond earrings and necklace. This\\ndress exclusive of the ornaments was 40\\nguineas and the black was 30.\\nIf Mrs. Erskine, who was a rare beauty,\\nappeared in Washington in costumes as bril-\\nliant as those described by Sarah Brian, she\\nmust have been greatly admired. In one of\\nher letters, written to her cousin, Miss Mere-\\ndith, sometime before Mrs. Erskine s return to\\nAmerica, she speaks of the prevalence of the\\nturban in London, which gained such ascend-\\nency in America during the social reign of\\nMrs. Madison. Turkish turbans made of\\nsoft muslin rolled round the head are very\\nmuch worn, they are extremely pretty with a\\nBird of Paradise Feather put in at the side\\n196", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand drooping very low over one eye. Al-\\nthough Mrs. Erskine says that she never\\nwears a turban herself, as she thinks that a\\nyoung person looks best with nothing at all\\nupon her head, she quotes the high price of\\nwigs and tells her cousin that she has one\\nfor which she paid six guineas, which she\\nintends shall last her the rest of her life.\\nThe Erskines spent some weeks with Lord\\nand Lady Liston,* at their country-seat six\\nmiles from Edinburgh, before sailing for Amer-\\nica. Mrs, Cadwalader, Mrs. Erskine s mother,\\nwas with her during this visit, and her four\\nchildren, tw^o of whom she brought to America\\nwith her.\\nMr. and Mrs. Erskine returned to England\\nabout i8og, when Mr. Francis Jackson was\\nappointed Minister from Great Britain. Mr.\\nSamuel Breck, who was in Washington in\\nOctober, 1809, speaks of lodging at the Union\\nInn with Mr. Jackson and his family (a nev^^\\nminister plenipotentiary arrived from Eng-\\nland), Mr. Erskine (the recalled Minister), and\\nMr. Wood, the British Consul of Baltimore.\\nLord Erskine was for many years British\\nMinister to W^urtemberg and to Bavaria.\\nFrom Stuttgart Lady Erskine wrote charming\\nletters to her mother in England, telling her\\nof the many pleasures of her life, which Mrs.\\nSir Robert Liston had been British Minister to the\\nUnited States during President Washington s administra-\\ntion.\\n197", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCadwalader declined to share on account of\\nher dread of the sea. Mrs. Erskine dwells with\\nenthusiasm upon the beauty of the flowers,\\nespecially of the roses, and the orange-trees\\nin full flower. She also speaks of the great\\nkindness of the dow^ager Queen, whose invi-\\ntation to Frederick s Haven she and Lord\\nErskine have been obliged to accept, because\\nthey were invited the year before and did not\\ngo. Faithful Sarah Brian in one of her letters\\nhas left a pleasant picture of Lady Erskine\\nand her half dozen beautiful daughters, playing\\nLadies Bountiful to the destitute peasantry\\nnear their Bavarian home. Mary, Elizabeth,\\nStewarta, Margaret, Sevilla, and Jane all\\ncome in for a share of the fond foster-\\nmother s admiration; but Miss Jane, she\\nadds, will, I think, be the greatest beauty of\\nthem all.\\nMary Erskine married Hermann Tautphoeus Count Von\\nBaumgarten of Bavaria, and lived in the great Chateau\\nof Ehring. Mary Erskine was not the author of The\\nInitials, as has often been stated. The Baroness\\nTautphoeus, who wrote the novels, was a Scotch lady,\\nJemima Montgomery. Jane Erskine, in 1837, married\\nher cousin, James H. Callander, great-grandson of Henry\\nDavid Erskine, Earl of Buchan. J. T. Headley, in his\\nLetters from Italy, speaks of meeting Mrs. Callander\\nat Genoa The other evening I was at an unusually bril-\\nliant assembly at the Palace of the Governor, and as I was\\nstanding amid a group of officers I caught a view of a\\nhead and face that drew from me an involuntary exclama-\\ntion, there was a beauty and expression about it I had seen\\nbut once before in my life, but no one could tell me who\\n193\\n1", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "Di. John Bullus\\nBy Gilbert Stuart", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nAmong women who were prominent in the\\nsocial life of Washington were Mrs. William\\nW. Seaton (Sarah Gales), Mrs. Albert Galla-\\ntin, Mrs. James Monroe, an elegant and ac-\\ncomplished woman although not as fond of\\nsociety as Mrs. Madison Mrs. Alexander\\nMacomb, Mrs. Richard Rush, and Mrs. John\\nBullus, who was a daughter of Colonel Charles\\nRumsey, of Cecil County, Maryland.\\nDr. and Mrs. Bullus went to Washington\\nsoon after their marriage, in 1800, and lived\\nthere a number of years. Dr. Bullus had\\nstudied medicine in Philadelphia with Dr.\\nBenjamin Rush, and entered the navy as sur-\\ngeon when war with France v/as imminent.\\nHe afterwards resigned his commission to\\naccept an appointment as Consul to Mar-\\nshe was or where she came from, yet all looked as if they\\nwould give the world to know. At length seeing her seated\\nin familiar conversation beside a lady with whom I was\\nacquainted, I soon pierced the mystery that surrounded\\nher. You can guess my surprise and pleasure to learn that\\nthis beauty was of American origin. She was the daughter\\nof Lord Erskine, who when Minister [Secy, of Legation]\\nto the U. S. had married a beautiful Philadelphia lady,\\ndaughter of Mr, Cadwalader, who it seems has transmitted\\nthe charms that had enthralled the noble Lord to the\\ndaughter. You can judge of the effect of American beauty\\non the Italians when I tell you that while I stood by her\\nthe young nobles marched by her in regular platoons and\\npaused as they came opposite to her and gazed as if they\\nhad been moon-struck. The radiant creature sat quite un-\\nconscious of all this of course, as the lady sitting by her\\nside not very amiably whispered to me.\\n199", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nseilles, and, sailing with his wife and family\\non the Chesapeake, with Captain James\\nBarron, in June, 1807, was a witness of and\\na participant in the very remarkable en-\\ncounter between the Chesapeake and the\\nLeopard. Having removed his wife and\\nchildren to a place of safety, Dr. BuUus took\\nhis position on deck and remained there during\\nthis one-sided and unequal engagement. After\\nthe Chesapeake returned to port, Dr. Bul-\\nlus relinquished the consulate at Marseilles.\\nHaving been an eye-witness of the affair be-\\ntween the Chesapeake and the Leopard,\\nhe was selected by President Madison as\\nbearer of despatches and sent to England in\\nrelation to the matter.\\nA pleasant little story is told by the Bullus\\nfamily vi^hich gives some idea of the generous\\nhospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Custis, of Arling-\\nton. Dr. and Mrs. Bullus were invited to a\\ntea-party at Arlington. Mrs. Bullus was not\\nable to accompany her husband. While at the\\ntable Dr. Bullus admired the beautiful cups\\nand saucers, which were of Sevres china, each\\none bearing the initials G. W^. in gold letters\\nas they belonged to a set of china presented\\nto General Washington by the Comte de Cus-\\ntine. The next day came a basket of goose-\\nberries from Mrs. Custis to Mrs. Bullus, and\\nburied under the berries was one of the beau-\\ntiful cups and saucers.\\nMrs. Custis was the wife of Mr. George\\nWashington Parke Custis, of Arlington, the\\n200", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "Mrs. John Bullus\\nBy Gilbert Stuart", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ngrandson of Mrs. Washington and the adopted\\nson of the General. Mrs. Custis, her sister-\\nin-law, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, who lived at\\nMount Vernon during her grandmother s life,\\nand Mrs. Bushrod Washington, who resided\\nthere after Mrs. Washington s death, were all\\nmuch in Washington society in the early years\\nof the century. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis s sis-\\nters, Mrs. Thomas Peter and Mrs. Thomas\\nLaw^, were both living in W^ashington. Mrs.\\nLaw was as beautiful as Mrs. Lewis, although\\nof a less spiritudle and delicate type of beauty.\\nIt is said that when Gilbert Stuart was paint-\\ning a portrait of General Washington, Mrs.\\nLaw, then Eliza Custis, came in from the\\ngarden and stood with her arms folded watch-\\ning the progress of the painting. The artist\\nlooked up from his work, and, with his quick\\nappreciation of the character and grace of the\\npose as well as of the beauty of the face, ex-\\nclaimed that he would like to paint a portrait\\nof Miss Custis just as she stood, and thus it\\nwas painted.\\nIt was w^hen Mr. Law^ offered himself to\\nMiss Custis that General W^ashington wrote\\nher his famous letter, giving her his own philo-\\nsophic views of love and marriage. Unfor-\\ntunately, the young girl did not listen to the\\nwords of wisdom contained in this epistle\\nfor, although Mr. Law s appearance, bril-\\nliancy, and great -wealth w^ere quite sufficient\\nto bewilder any girl in her teens, his eccen-\\ntricities were such as to preclude any hope\\n201", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof real happiness. An habitud of Washington\\nCity in the early years of the century, in speak-\\ning of Mr. Law as one of the celebrities of the\\ncapital, said that there were few persons then\\nliving who had not some anecdote to relate\\nrespecting his eccentricities as w^ell as his\\nbrilliant talent. This distinguished gentleman\\nwas a younger brother of Lord Ellenborough,\\nwho had succeeded Lord Kenyon as Lord\\nChief Justice of the King s Bench.\\nMr. Law s early life had been passed in\\nIndia with Lord Cornwallis, where he held a\\nhigh civil position, whose duties he discharged\\nwith signal ability. Infected by the spirit of\\nliberty then moving all nations, said a con-\\ntemporary writer, Mr. Law s enthusiasm was\\nroused in favor of Republican institutions,\\nand, inspired with ardent admiration for the\\ncharacter of V/ashington, he came to America;\\nhaving however, no political affinities w^hatever\\nin this country. He attracted much attention\\nfrom his fine person, aristocratic connections,\\nand undoubted genius, and also from his\\nwealth, which, accumulated in the golden\\ndays of India, was dissipated chiefly through\\nbuilding speculations, for which he had a\\nmania w^hile he w^as also generous, prodigal\\nindeed, in good works, as in the hospitalities\\ndispensed at his country-seat near Washing-\\nton.\\nThe simplicity and informality introduced\\nby Mr. Jefferson, disappeared with astonishing\\nrapidity during the next administration, when\\n202", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMrs. Madison held undisputed sway in the\\nsocial world.\\nMrs. William Seaton, describing Mrs. Madi-\\nson s drawing-room, in a letter to a friend,\\nsaid: Her majesty s appearance was truly\\nregal, dressed in a robe of pink satin, trimmed\\nelaborately with ermine, a white velvet and\\nsatin turban, with nodding ostrich-plumes and\\na crescent in front, gold chains and clasps\\naround the waist and wrists. Tis here the\\n^voman w^ho adorns the dress, and not the\\ndress that beautifies the woman. I cannot\\nconceive a female better calculated to dignify\\nthe station which she occupies in society than\\nMrs. Madison, Amiable in private life and\\naffable in public, she is admired and esteemed\\nby the rich and beloved by the poor. You are\\naware that she snuffs; but in her hands the\\nsnuff-box seems only a gracious implement\\nwith w^hich to charm. Her frank cordiality to\\nall her guests is in contrast to the manner of\\nthe President, who is formal, reserved and\\nprecise, yet not wanting in a certain dignity.\\nBeing so low of stature, he was in imminent\\ndanger of being confounded w^ith the plebeian\\ncrowd, and was pushed and jostled about\\nlike a common citizen, but not so with her\\nladyship The towering feathers and exces-\\nsive throng distinctly pointed out her station\\nw^herever she moved.\\nMrs. Seaton was surprised and shocked by\\nthe amount of powder and rouge used by\\nfashionable women, many of whom spoke\\n203", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nquite frankly of putting on these foreign aids\\nof ornament, as they talked of wearing lace\\nor jewels. Mrs. Seaton was also scandalized\\nby the dccolletd style of dressing among w^omen\\nof all ages. Madame Bonaparte, she said,\\nis a model of fashion, and many of our belles\\nstrive to imitate her but without equal\\nhlat, as Madame Bonaparte has certainly the\\nmost transcendently beautiful back and shoul-\\nders that ever were seen.\\nMrs. Madison is said to rouge, wrote\\nMrs. Seaton, but not evident to my eyes, and\\nI do not think it true, as I am well assured I\\nsaw her color come and go at the naval ball,\\nwhen the Macedonian flag was presented to\\nher by young Hamilton.\\nIn the midst of gayety and merrymaking,\\nthere came, during Mr. Madison s second term\\nin office, days of suspense to the country, and\\nof danger to the capital which was not forti-\\nfied or in any w^ay prepared for defence. The\\nnew Republic w^as suddenly brought face to\\nface w^ith a proposition with which it has been\\nconfronted in later times. The Commander-\\nin-chief of the armies of the United States\\nwas a great statesman but he knew nothing\\npractically of w^ar, and matters were not im-\\nproved by the presence at his right hand of an\\nineff ectual Secretary of War. General Arm-\\nstrong saw no reason to fortify the capital of\\nthe nation, and that capital was speedily taken\\npossession of by the trained soldiers of a war-\\nlike people.\\n204", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMr. Madison, in company with the Secre-\\ntaries of War and of the Navy, had gone to\\nEladensburg on the day of the battle. General\\nArmstrong assured Mrs. Madison before he\\nleft Washington that there was no danger.\\nUnwilling to quit her post until her husband s\\nreturn, anxious for his safety, perhaps still\\nmore anxious to silence hostile tongues, this\\nheroic w^oman saw one official after another\\nleave Washington but not until a messenger\\nfrom Mr. Madison arrived, crying Clear out\\nclear out General Armstrong has ordered a\\nretreat, did Mrs. Madison prepare to leave\\nthe White House. In the hurry and confusion\\nof this departure, she had the courage and\\npresence of mind to secure the Stuart portrait\\nof General Washington, which hung upon the\\ndining-room wall. As it could not be easily\\nunscrew^ed from the wall, Mrs. Madison di-\\nrected the doorkeeper and the gardener of the\\nW^hite House to break the frame with an axe.\\nThe canvas was thus removed, without injury\\nto the portrait, and conveyed to a place of\\nsafety in Georgetown. Whatever may have\\nbeen said of Mr. Madison s timidity in the\\nface of -war, nothing derogatory to the courage\\nand spirit of Mrs. Madison could have been\\nsaid VN^ith any shadow of truth. Many were\\nthe quips and quirks then freely circulated\\nabout the President, among them the follow-\\ning couplet attributed to an American Scott\\nFly Monroe, fly! Run Armstrong, run 1\\nWere the last words of Madison.\\n205", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nWhen the President and Mrs. Madison re-\\nturned to the capital, which had been shorn\\nof its glory by the vandalism of General Ross\\nand Admiral Cockburn, they rented a house at\\nthe corner of New York Avenue and Eigh-\\nteenth Street, called the Octagon House.\\nIn this mansion, which had been built by\\nColonel John Tayloe, of Mount Airy, Virginia,\\nthe Treaty of Ghent w^as signed, which ended\\nthe second war w^ith Great Britain.\\nThe reception given by the President and\\nMrs. Madison after the signing of the Treaty of\\nGhent, is described by residents of the capital\\nas the most brilliant ever held in Washington.\\nMrs. Madison, rejoicing in the assurance of\\npeace and of the restored popularity of her\\nhusband, received her guests with smiles, and\\nas she passed from group to group radiated an\\natmosphere of happiness and good-will.\\nThe Justices of the Supreme Court were\\npresent in their gowns, says a contemporary,\\nat the head of whom was Chief Justice Mar-\\nshall. The Peace Commissioners to Ghent\\nGallatin, Bayard, Clay and Russell were\\nin the company. Mr. Adams alone was ab-\\nsent. The levee was additionally brilliant\\nthe heroes of the war of 1812, Major-Generals\\nBrown, Gaines, Scott, and Ripley, with their\\naides, all in full dress, forming an attractive\\nfeature. The return of peace had restored the\\nkindest feeling at home and abroad.\\nThe most notable feature of the evening\\nwas the magnificent display of the Diplomatic\\n206", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "Mrs. James H. Callander\\nPage 198", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCorps, prominent in which was Sir Charles\\nBagot, special ambassador from our late en-\\nemy, Great Britain. It was on this occasion\\nthat Mr. Bagot made the remark, that Mrs.\\nMadison looked every inch a queen.\\nMrs. James M. Mason, who went to Wash-\\nington as a bride during President Monroe s\\nadministration, wrote many letters to her\\nmother, Mrs. Benjamin Chew, and to her sister\\nin Philadelphia, describing the pleasures and\\ngayeties of the capital. In one of her letters\\nMrs. Mason speaks of the great difficulty in\\nreturning visits as the houses, even at this\\ntime, were so far apart.\\nThe marriage of the President s daughter,\\nMiss Maria Monroe, was, she says, the ab-\\nsorbing topic of interest in the gay world. Of\\nthis approaching festivity. Miss Ann Elbertina\\nVan Ness wrote to Miss Ann Chew: I sup-\\npose the news of our old school-mate s en-\\ngagement has reached you, long since The\\nninth of this month is the day fixed on for\\nthe wedding. I can scarcely realize it; to think\\nthat last winter, we were at school together,\\nand now she is about to become Mrs. Gouv-\\nerneur. I have laughed at little Rias (as\\nwe used to call her) more than once about it.\\nMrs. Seaton speaks in one of her letters of\\nMrs. Gouverneur, the bride, receiving in her\\nmother s place at the drawing-room follo^ving\\nthe wedding, while Mrs. Monroe mingled\\nwith other citizens. The bridal festivities,\\nshe adds, have received a check which will\\n207", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nprevent any further attentions to the Presi-\\ndent s family, in the murder of Decatur! The\\nfirst ball, which we attended, consequent on\\nthe w^edding was given by the Decaturs. Invi-\\ntations were out from Van Ness, Commodore\\nPorter, c, all of w^hich w^ere remanded on so\\nfatal a catastrophe to a man identified with\\nthe success of the country in the late war.\\nIn one of her letters, Mrs. Mason gives a\\npleasant picture of Mrs. Madison as she ap-\\npeared in later years. After her husband s\\ndeath, Mrs. Madison returned to Washington,\\nand was at this time living in the house at\\nthe corner of H Street and Madison Place,\\nwhich is still pointed out to visitors as the\\nDolly Madison house. Yesterday I posi-\\ntively determined to go back to Clermont,\\nwrote Mrs. Mason, yet again I was over-\\nruled and carried to the Capitol to see Mrs.\\nMadison and other great folks. Tell papa,\\nMrs. Madison inquired very especially for him\\nand desired me to reciprocate his remem-\\nbrances, she was quite eloquent when she\\ndescribed his elegant appearance and man-\\nners. She is a very charming old lady and\\nquite captivated me by her encomiums of my\\nFather and of my Husband.\\nIn one of Mr. Mason s letters to Miss Chew\\nhe says, Mrs. Madison is a particular pet\\nbeing only four score years. Men and women\\nstill living in W^ashington, recall Mrs. Madison\\nas she appeared in her old age, still wearing\\nher turban with a grace and dignity all her own,\\n208", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nstill extending a charming and cordial welcome\\nto all who gathered around her. She was al-\\nways, says one who remembers seeing her at\\nMr. Webster s house on H Street, the centre\\nof attraction in whatever circle she appeared.\\nThe years when Mrs. Madison held sway in\\nthe society of the capital will ever be looked\\nupon as the golden age of Washington society.\\nThe city was still small enough for all the\\ngreat folk to be gathered together in one draw-\\ning-room, when Mrs. Madison, in the White\\nHouse or in her more modest home on H\\nStreet, drew around her all distinguished per-\\nsons who visited the capital. Having been\\na bride during the second administration of\\nWashington, and familiar with the generals of\\nthe Revolution, Mrs. Madison lived until after\\nthe inauguration of President Polk, and wel-\\ncomed to her home the heroes of the War of\\n1812 and of the Mexican War.\\n14 209", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI. AN EARLY ART CEN-\\nTRE\\nHEN music, and the fine arts come\\nto prosper at Philadelphia when\\nsociety once becomes easy and\\ngay there, and they learn to accept of pleas-\\nure Avhen it presents itself, without a formal\\ninvitation, then may foreigners enjoy all the\\nadvantages peculiar to their manners and gov-\\nernment, v^ithout envying anything in Eu-\\nrope. So wrote the Marquis de Chastellux\\nof the Quaker City during the Revolution.\\nWhatever may be said of music, art came\\nearly to Philadelphia, and this despite the\\nQuaker element in the community, which\\nwas, to some extent, opposed to the fine arts.\\nThat all Friends did not disapprove of portrait\\npainting is evident from the numerous por-\\ntraits which have been handed down to this\\ngeneration in the families of the Morrises,\\nFishers, Emlens, How^ells, Rawles, Pember-\\ntons, and many leading Friends. Others were\\nconscientiously opposed to the encouragement\\nof art, and in this class were Elizabeth and\\nHenry Drinker, as appears from the following\\nentry in Mrs. Drinker s diary\\nA man called this afternoon to see if H. D.\\nwould subscribe for a portrait of David Rit-\\ntenhouse. I told him that my husband was\\n2Z0", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nabroad, and if at home, I believed it would\\nnot suit, as he was one that did not deal in\\npictures. He said that several genteel Quakers\\nhad subscribed. I was desirous of saving my\\nhusband the trouble of refusing, or the man\\nof calling again.\\nAs an offset to the discouragement given to\\nartists by the Drinkers, and others of their way\\nof thinking, generous patronage was given to\\nart by a number of citizens, and many portraits\\nwere painted in Philadelphia in Colonial days\\nby Gustavus and John Hesselius, John Wool-\\naston, Robert Feke, John Watson, Henry\\nBembridge, Matthew Pratt, Benjamin West,\\nand Charles Willson Peale. Whether born in\\nPhiladelphia or elsewhere, all artists of note\\ndrifted to this city sooner or later, some to\\nmake their homes here, like Charles Willson\\nPeale and his brother James, Thomas Sully,\\nW^illiam Russel Birch, Pierre Henri,* Edward\\nMiles, John Henry Bro wn, and John Sartain.\\nOthers came for a stay of more or less length,\\nas Stuart, Inman, Trott, Jarvis, Malbone, Free-\\nman, and many native and foreign artists.\\nM. Henri brought with him credentials from\\nthe Royal Academy of London, and appears\\nThe following notice in the Pennsyhmfiia Packet proves\\nthat M. Henri was painting in Philadelphia in 1790 Mr.\\nP. Henri, Miniature Painter from Paris, respectfully in-\\nforms the Public that he is living in Front Street, oppo-\\nsite the City Vendue (the Door facing the Tree) and that\\nhe will do himself the honor to wait on Ladies, at their\\nrequest.\\n2ZI", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nto have painted miniatures in Richmond be-\\nfore coming to Philadelphia.\\nThis concentration of art interest in Phila-\\ndelphia for some years, was doubtless due to\\nthe great patronage given to artists, especially\\nto portrait painters, during the early sessions\\nof Congress and later, when Philadelphia was\\nthe seat of government. Men and women\\nwere draw^n to this city from all parts of the\\ncountry. Many of the statesmen and warriors\\nof the Revolution had their portraits painted\\nwhile in Philadelphia, as well as those of their\\nwives and daughters.\\nIn consequence of the early encouragement\\ngiven to native artists by Mr. William Hamil-\\nton, Mr. Joseph Shippen, Mr. Thomas Hopkin-\\nson, Chief-Justice Allen, and by many other\\ncitizens of Philadelphia, an Academy of the\\nFine Arts was formed in Philadelphia early\\nin the next century. The plan for this Art\\nSociety, as it was first called, was formulated\\nin the studio of Rembrandt Peale, at the State\\nHouse.* The committee appointed to secure a\\nbuilding for the art studies and exhibitions of\\nthe Academy was composed of George Clymer,\\nWilliam Poyntell, John Redman Coxe, William\\nRush, and John Dorsey. The only artist on\\nthe committee was William Rush, who pos-\\nsessed great ability as a sculptor and carver in\\nw^ood, as is proved by his noble figure of Gen-\\nThe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, formed\\nin 1805, was the outgrowth of Charles W. Peak s effort to\\norganize an art school in Philadelphia as early as 1791.\\n212", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\neral Washington, now in Independence Hall,\\nPhiladelphia.\\nCharles Willson Peale was painting in Phila-\\ndelphia as early as 1772. One of his best por-\\ntraits is of Judge William Barton. Mr. Peale\\nalso painted a portrait of Mrs. William Barton.\\nThis picture of Mrs. Barton (Elizabeth Rhea)\\nrepresents the young mother with one of her\\nlittle daughters, Betsy Barton, in her arms.\\nThe miniatures of Charles Willson Peale\\nand his brother James are not so readily\\nauthenticated as their portraits, but every\\nyear more and more of James Peale s minia-\\ntures are being discovered. With a powerful\\nmagnifying glass, the initials J. P. may be dis-\\ncerned upon the background of many a minia-\\nture vs^hose owners have relegated it to the\\nregion of the unknown in art. In delicacy and\\ngrace of treatment, and in exquisiteness of\\nfinish, James Peale is only excelled by Mal-\\nbone, while in strength and individuality of\\nexpression he sometimes surpasses the Rhode\\nIsland artist. Among interesting miniatures\\nby James Peale, which have recently come to\\nlight, are those of Dr. John Bullus, whose por-\\ntrait was also painted by Gilbert Stuart, and\\ntw^o very fine miniatures of Tench Francis and\\nof Mr. William Sergeant, a son of Jonathan\\nDickinson Sergeant. A miniature of Charles\\nHall, a prominent Pennsylvania lawyer, who\\nbegan his legal career in Sunbury, Northum-\\nberland County, bears some marks of James\\nPeale s style, while another unsigned and very\\n213", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nbeautiful miniature of Mr. Hall, painted some\\nyears earlier, is so fine and delicate in treat-\\nment and color as to suggest the hand of a\\nFrench artist. Mr. Hall was how^ever never\\nabroad, having been born and having spent his\\nearly years at his father s place. Mount Wel-\\ncome, Cecil County, Maryland. He married\\nMiss Elizabeth Coleman, and after his mar-\\nriage lived in Sunbury, in the active practice\\nof his profession. If Mr. Charles Hall s min-\\niature was the work of a foreign hand, it must\\nhave been painted by one of the French or\\nEnglish artists who were in America in the\\nlatter years of the century. The miniature\\nv/as probably painted about 1796, the time of\\nMr. Hall s marriage to Miss Coleman.\\nAnother interesting unsigned miniature,\\npainted in Philadelphia about 1778, is that of\\nMrs. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, which may\\nhave been the work of the elder Peale, as it\\nwas too early for the best w^ork of his brother\\nJames. This miniature, if executed by Charles\\nWillson Peale, is an example of the artist at\\nhis very best, as it excels his other minia-\\ntures, although it bears some general resem-\\nblance to a well-authenticated miniature by\\nhim of Mrs. James Montgomery, and to one of\\nhis daughter, Angelica Peale, afterwards Mrs.\\nAlexander Robinson, of Baltimore. Mrs. Ser-\\ngeant was a daughter of the Reverend Elihu\\nSpencer, of New Jersey, and the wife of the\\nable and patriotic New Jersey lawyer, Jona-\\nthan Dickinson Sergeant. Mr. Sergeant was\\n214", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant\\nMrs. Ale.xander Robinson\\nBy Charles Willson Peale", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\na member of the Continental Congress, rep-\\nresenting New Jersey, and was afterwards\\nAttorney-General for Pennsylvania. While at-\\ntending the sessions of Congress, in 1776, Mr.\\nSergeant w^as obliged to leave his wife and\\ninfant son at Princeton. Upon the approach\\nof the British, Mr. Spencer being obnoxious to\\nthe enemy in consequence of his well-known\\npatriotism, a message was sent by General\\nMercer to warn him of his danger, while Dr.\\nBainbridge, of Princeton, aroused Mrs. Ser-\\ngeant, and insisted upon her starting at once\\nwith her sister and child to McConkey s\\nFerry, on the Delaware, where her husband\\nhad arranged to meet her in case she should\\nbe obliged to leave Princeton. Mrs. Sergeant\\nwas afterwards joined by her father, Mr. Spen-\\ncer, at McConkey s Ferry. Here the family\\nparty had a joyful reunion, and spent the night\\nin a little hut, under the protection of a com-\\npany of American soldiers on their way to join\\nGeneral Washington.*\\nWilliam Russell Birch, who is known to-day\\nchiefly through his very fine portraits of Gen-\\neral Washington, and his views of houses and\\ncountry-seats in and around Ne^v York, Phila-\\ndelphia, Washington, and other cities, was a\\nMrs. Sergeant died in June, 1787, and Mr. Sergeant\\nmarried, in December, 1788, Elizabeth Rittenhouse, a\\ndaughter of David Rittenhouse, the astronomer. The first\\nMrs. Sergeant was the mother of the Honorable John Ser-\\ngeant, who, like his father, was a distinguished lawyer and\\npublic-spirited citizen.\\n215", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nvery remarkable workman in enamel. This\\nartist s work is unique his method of putting\\non the enamel being an invention of his own,\\nthe result of much painstaking labor and many\\nexperiments. Enamel painting, he said,\\nis the unique Art of heightening and pre-\\nserving the beauty of tints to futurity, as given\\nin the Works of the most celebrated Masters\\nof Painting, without a possibility of their\\nchanging the colours are made of metallic\\nsubstances, metals and minerals, soluted, cal-\\ncined, and composed with glassy substances,\\ncommonly called Flux, and when layed on\\nbodies of their own kind and placed in a strong\\nheat, will melt in one with them, and become\\npermanent.\\nMr. Birch prepared his plates and made his\\nown colors. In the course of his work, he dis-\\ncovered that by laying a thin coat of yellow\\nenamel on the metal plate before putting on\\nthe last coat of white, he secured a warm tint\\nnot to be obtained in any other way. In his\\ndiary, or recollections, he says that after ex-\\nperimenting for a month, he was particularly\\nfortunate in producing in enamel a Vandyke\\nbrown, which Sir Joshua Reynolds was fond\\nof using. For several years Mr. Birch was\\nengaged in copying Sir Joshua s famous por-\\ntraits, at the artist s own request, as he seems\\nto have feared what afterwards came to pass,\\nthat his colors, exquisite as they w^ere, would\\nnot stand the test of time. Among portraits\\ncopied in enamel by Mr. Birch were those of\\n216", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe Duke of Devonshire, the Honorable Mrs.\\nStanhope, Mrs. Robertson, a portrait of Sir\\nJoshua himself, one of the Marquis of Rock-\\ningham, and of Lord Spencer. Of the Earl of\\nMansfield, Lord Chief-Justice of the King s\\nBench, a patron of the artist, he made numer-\\nous copies in enamel from paintings by Sir\\nJoshua Reynolds. Like a true-born son of\\nBritain, William Birch took great pride in re-\\nferring to the generous patronage of his work\\nby the English nobility and aristocracy, and\\nthe friendly relations that existed between\\nhimself and the Earl of Mansfield, Mr. Chaun-\\ncey, and Sir Joshua Reynolds.\\nIn Mr. Birch s recollections, written for the\\nbenefit of his family, he quaintly tells of his\\nsuccess in inducing the Earl of Mansfield to\\nsit to Sir Joshua for his portrait. I w^as, he\\nsays, first engaged in his [Lord Mansfield s]\\npatronage in copying Mr. Copley s Picture\\nfrom the Death of Chatham or a picture so\\nnearly resembling one from it that I could not\\nendure the idea of handing down to Posterity\\nanything like second-hand a Characature not\\nshort of the first of the Age, and finding there\\nwere so many wanting of this Picture, or\\nportrait, I took the following opportunity of\\nspeaking my mind. Sitting at tea one even-\\ning with his Lordship and the Ladies, Well\\nBirch, said he, there is another picture to\\nPaint. What my Lord from Mr. Copley s\\nPicture, I replied, it appears to me too much\\nlike a copy from another Picture, to hand\\n217", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndown your Lordship to posterity. I cannot\\ncopy it my Lord. What would you paint\\nfrom, he replied. I cannot help thinking that\\nin an age like this where two so great men\\nhave met as your Lordship and Sir Jos a that\\nit is your Lordship s duty to your friends and\\nthe public to sit to Sir Josh a Reynolds. He\\npaused a while and came up to me, Birch,\\nsaid he, the Archbishop of York has for these\\nten years past been soliciting me to sit to Sir\\nJos a but I have always refused, but you shall\\ngo to Sir Joshua tom.orrow and tell him I\\nwill sit to him whenever he will appoint me.\\nHaving thus succeeded in getting a fine picture\\nby my own Master to copy I set down with\\npleasure to the orders, as from the first of the\\nlist, the picture being painted and much ap-\\nproved, his Lordship said to me, what is to\\nbe done with the Archbishop of York. A\\ncopy of the picture, my Lord, should be or-\\ndered of Sir Joshua for his Grace. Then you\\ngo and order it, he replied.\\nMr. Birch was in England at the time of the\\ndeath of Sir Joshua Reynolds, of whom he\\nspeaks as his departed friend and master, and\\nrelates with great pride the fact that Mr. West,\\nBenjamin West, who had the arrangement\\nof the procession, said to him upon this occa-\\nsion, I know your standing with Sir Joshua,\\nand as you are not a regular member of the\\nAcademy, I have ordered a black coach for\\nyou to join with the family. Soon after this\\nJudge Samuel Chase, of Maryland, was in\\n218", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nLondon. Mr. Birch says that Judge Chase\\nwas connected with him by marriage, and\\nthat he saw him often and had many conver-\\nsations with him.* Judge Chase strongly ad-\\nvised the artist to go to America, which he\\ndecided to do, taking his wife and children\\nwith him. The only letter of introduction\\nthat Mr. Birch carried with him was from\\nBenjamin West, then President of the Royal\\nAcademy, to Mr. W^illiam Bingham, in Phila-\\ndelphia.\\nMr. Bingham was my first employer in\\nAmerica, says Mr. Birch, to instruct his\\nt\\\\vo daughters in Drawing at his own house at-\\ntended with one of their friends, three scholars\\ntwice a week, at half a Guinea per lesson each.\\nI then built me a furnace. Painted a full size\\npicture in Enamel of Mr. Bingham and a\\nsmaller one from it for Miss Bingham, who\\nafterwards married Sir Francis Baring. Find-\\ning orders for portraits came in fluently, I gave\\nup my scholars.\\nMr. Birch had been quite successful in en-\\ngraving heads and landscapes while in Eng-\\nland, and now, under the patronage of a number\\nof influential citizens, he set about making his\\ncelebrated Views of the City of Philadelphia\\nin 1800. He says that in making these draw-\\nings he was assisted by his son, and by Mr.\\nJudge Chase was sent to England by the Maryland\\nLegislature in 1783, to secure money that had been invested\\nin the Bank of England before the War of the Revolution.\\n219", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nSeymour in the work of engraving. In addi-\\ntion to his Views of places in and around\\nPhiladelphia, Birch made engravings of a\\nnumber of country-seats in Maryland, Vir-\\nginia, New York, and in other States; among\\nthem is one of Mount Vernon, then the resi-\\ndence of Judge Bushrod Washington. Ac-\\ncording to the artist s ov/n list, he made\\nengravings of Hoboken in New Jersey the\\nseat of Mr. John Stevens Montobello the\\nseat of General S. Smith of Maryland the\\nseat of Mr. Duplantier, near New^ Orleans.\\nAmong these Views is an engraving, which\\nthe artist speaks of as York Island, w^ith a\\nview of the seats of Mr. A. Gracie, Mr. Church,\\netc. Some of these pictures are in water-\\ncolors, as that of Point Breeze, the residence\\nof Joseph Bonaparte, and that of General Ma-\\nson s seat, on Analostan Island in the Potomac\\nRiver, with a wing of his house at George-\\ntown, and of that of Mr. Custis in the distance.\\nIn and about Philadelphia Mr. Birch made\\nengravings and water-colors of Belmont,\\nLansdowne, Woodlands, Echo, the\\nseat of Mr. Beveridge, Fairy Hill, which\\nthe artist speaks of as the residence of M. de\\nla Roche and family,* and many other places\\non or near the Schuylkill. Mr. Birch also\\nmade engravings of a number of country-seats\\nFairy Hill was in quite a different direction from\\nFairhill, the seat of Isaac Norris, which was burned by\\nthe British.\\n220", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\non the Delaware. Of one of these seats,\\nChina Hall, which was near his own place,\\nSpringland, he has left a quaint and in-\\nteresting description. This handsome and\\nunique country-seat, built by Mr. Van Braam,\\nUnited States Minister from Holland, was\\nsituated on the Delaw^are near the mouth of\\nthe Neshaminy Creek. Mr. Van Braam, who\\nhad spent many years among the Chinese, im-\\nported many beautiful and curious articles for\\nthe furnishing and adornment of China Hall,\\nand Mr. Birch speaks of his long boat manned\\nby eight Chinese oarsmen, dressed in white,\\nas a picturesque feature in the landscape.\\nGilbert Stuart returned to America in 1794,\\nand came to Philadelphia with a letter of in-\\ntroduction to President Washington from Mr.\\nJohn Jay, his highest ambition in life being\\nto paint a satisfactory portrait of the great\\nsoldier and statesman for whom he cherished\\nso ardent an admiration. Mr. Birch gives an\\ningenuous account of his relations with the\\nartist and of his first interview with General\\nWashington When he [General Washing-\\nton] was sitting to Stuart, he told him he had\\nheard there was another Artist of merit from\\nLondon, naming myself, that he \\\\vould sit to\\nme if I chose. Mr. Stuart brought me the\\nmessage. I thanked Mr. Stuart, and told him\\nthat as he had painted his picture, it would be\\na mark of the highest imposition to trouble\\nthe Gen l to sit to me, but that when I had\\ncopied his Picture of him in Enamel, which\\n221", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwas my forte, that I would show it to the Gen.,\\nand thank him for his kind offer, which when I\\nhad done, I waited upon the Gen l with a note.\\nWhen I saw the Gen l I put the picture\\ninto his hand, he looked at it steadfastly, but\\nfrom a peculiarity of solid habit in his manner,\\nleft me to look at him as solid, till feeling my-\\nself awkward, I begun the history of Enamel\\nPainting, which by the time I got through,\\nhe complimented me upon the beauty of my\\nwork. I then told him how much we was\\nbeholding to Mr. Stuart for the correctness of\\nhis likeness.\\nThe annecdote of what Mr, Stuart calls\\nhis Mount Vernon Head, is worthy of obser-\\nvation, it happened in the first picture, near\\nits finish, when Mr. Stuart turned his Head to\\nreplenish his pallett, the Gen l, knowing him\\nto be a wit, took out his set of Ivory teeth, the\\npainter on the turn of his head, struck with\\nthe additional dignity of Countenance, told the\\nPresident, in a tone of tranquil ease, that he\\nhad been his subject long, w^ith pleasure, but\\nknow Sir, now you are my subject, and must\\nto my pencil another tribute pay. A fresh\\npicture was agreed upon, without the teeth,\\nwhich is the one generally know^n. The first\\nhe called the Mount Vernon Head; I copied\\none enamel from it, which was purchased by\\nMr. McHenry.\\nMr. Birch says that he also made a copy in\\n222", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Barnes\\nBy William Russell Birch", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nenamel of the full-length portrait painted by\\nStuart for the Marquess of Lansdowne, and\\nnumerous other copies from the works of this\\nartist, amounting to sixty in all.\\nThe enamels of General Washington by\\nBirch, and the examples of his work in heads\\nand in miniature groups and landscapes in the\\ncollections of the Academy of the Fine Arts,\\nin Philadelphia, and in possession of members\\nof the artist s family, are so fine that it is\\nto be regretted that more of these enamels\\ncannot be located. Mr. Birch made several\\nminiatures in enamel of Mr. Jaudenes, Span-\\nish Minister to the United States, one of\\nvk^hich w^as surrounded with diamonds and\\nmade into a locket for Mrs. Jaudenes. These\\nminiatures of course left the country with the\\nJaudenes.* One of the most charming ex-\\namples of Mr. Birch s work is a miniature of\\nhis daughter Priscilla, who afterwards married\\nMr. Barnes. In this portrait the artist has,\\nwith great skill and delicacy of treatment, re-\\nproduced a lace veil that is thrown over the\\nhead and falls down upon the forehead almost\\nMrs. Gushing, the wife of Judge Gushing, of the Su-\\npreme Gourt, wrote from Philadelphia in 1795 that she and\\nher husband had just dined with the President and Mrs.\\nWashington, in company with Don ]os6 de Jaudenes, the\\nSpanish Minister and his Lady, the Ghevalier and Mrs.\\nFrere, Mr. and Mrs. Van Berckel, and a number of cabinet\\nofficers with their wives. Madame Frere, the Portuguese\\nMinister s wife, and Madame Jaudenes were, Mrs. Gush-\\ning says, brilliant with diamonds.\\n223", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ncovering the eyes, and yet not concealing their\\nbeauty. Another miniature, of a young girl\\nasleep, is very fine in its transparency of color\\nand in the beauty of the flesh-tints.\\nMrs. Judge Cushing, in speaking of Gilbert\\nStuart s arrival in Philadelphia, calls him an\\nextraordinary limner said to exceed by far any\\nother in America.\\nStuart soon became the fashion, in conse-\\nquence of his great ability, and the distin-\\nguished patronage which came to him through\\nthe letters that he brought to General Wash-\\nington and other prominent men. Although\\nan eccentric individual, Stuart was possessed\\nof a vast fund of information and was an\\ninimitable raco7iteur. His studio, on Chestnut\\nStreet above Fifth, soon became more of a\\nsalon than a workroom, as visitors flocked in\\nat all hours to see the great artist at work and\\nto enjoy his brilliant conversation and clever\\ntales. This circumstance, says Miss Jane\\nStuart, the artist s daughter, led Mr. Stuart\\nto remove to Germantown, w^here he estab-\\nlished himself in an old mansion near the Main\\nStreet, transforming the barn into a studio.*\\nThe house in which Stuart lived was afterwards bought\\nfrom Samuel Ashmead by the late Mr. William Wynne\\nWister, whose daughters still (1899) occupy the house. The\\nold barn, in the rear of 5140 Main Street, in which Stuart\\npainted.was standing in the summer of 1898, and near it the\\nfamous apple-tree, then in the sear and yellow^ leaf, from\\nwhich, said Mr. Ashmead, General Washington was in the\\nhabit of regaling himself when he walked in the garden.\\n224", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nThis suburban painting-room soon became\\nas popular as his Chestnut Street studio, as\\nMiss Stuart says that, while the General and\\nMrs. Washington were sitting for their por-\\ntraits, it was the resort of many of the most\\ndistinguished and interesting persons of the\\nday. Nellie Custis, Mrs. Law, and Miss Har-\\nriet Chew (afterwards Mrs. Carroll), gene-\\nrally accompanied Mrs. Washington. General\\nKnox, General Henry Lee, and others came\\nwith the President. The British Minister and\\nhis wife, Mr. and Mrs. Liston, Louis Philippe\\nD Orleans, Counsellor Dunn (an Irish bar-\\nrister), and the Viscount de Noailles were\\nparticularly fond of Stuart s society and were\\ndaily visitors.\\nGeneral Washington was very fond of the\\ndaughters of his friend, Mr. Benjamin Chew,\\nand is said to have gallantly requested Miss\\nHarriet to accompany him to the sittings,\\nas her conversation would give his face its\\nmost agreeable expression. W^ith Miss Har-\\nriet Chew often came her sisters, Mrs. Philip\\nNicklin, Juliana Chev/, and Mrs. John Eager\\nHoward, Peggy Chew, who was living in\\nPhiladelphia in 1796, while General Howard\\nwas attending the sessions of Congress as\\nSenator from Maryland. Another of the Chew\\nsisters, who was married about this time to\\nMr. Henry Philips, was Sophia Chew. Minia-\\ntures of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Philips were later\\npainted by Richard Cosway.\\nMiss Stuart states that the celebrated Athe-\\n15 225", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nnaeum portrait of General Washington was\\npainted in the Germantown studio, and there\\nseems to be no reason to doubt this state-\\nment, as this studio was within pleasant driv-\\ning distance of the President s Philadelphia\\nresidence. This beautiful portrait, w^hich w^as\\npainted for Mrs. Washington at her request,\\nwas never finished, nor w^as her own portrait,\\nwhich was intended to accompany it. To this\\nfact may be attributed some of the delicacy\\nand charm of these portraits, for Stuart was\\ntoo true an artist to risk the chance of mar-\\nring by an additional stroke what was already\\nbeautiful and expressive.\\nThe Washington portrait Stuart kept in his\\nGermantown studio, calling it his hundred\\ndollar bill, as he took many orders for replicas\\nfrom it, and delaying the delivery of it to its\\nowner until the General s patience was ex-\\nhausted. One writer says that Mrs. Washing-\\nton became quite angry with the artist for not\\nallowing her to have her husband s portrait,\\nand did not hesitate to express herself upon\\nthe subject.\\nStuart painted charming portraits of Miss\\nHarriet Chew, who afterwards married Charles\\nCarroll, the son of Charles Carroll, the Signer,\\nof the Marchioness d Yrujo, of Sarah Shippen,\\nand of many other Philadelphia beauties.\\nNo artist who came to Philadelphia re-\\nceived more generous appreciation and patron-\\nage than Thomas Sully. Here he made his\\nhome and brought up his family of children,\\n226", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Charles Iren6e du Pont\\nBy Thomas Sully", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nsome of whom inherited a share of their\\nfather s artistic ability. Among Mr. Sully s\\nbest Philadelphia portraits are those of Mr.\\nand Mrs. Nicholas Biddle, Mrs. Richard Wor-\\nsam Meade, and Fanny Kemble, afterwards\\nMrs. Pierce Butler.\\nMr. Sully painted a very attractive portrait\\nof Mrs. Charles Irenee du Pont soon after her\\nmarriage. Mrs. du Pont w^as a daughter of\\nSenator Van Dyke, of New Castle, Delaw^are.\\nThe marriage of Miss Dorcas Montgomery\\nVan Dyke and Mr. Charles Iren6e du Pont*\\nwas solemnized at her father s house in New\\nCastle, in October, 1824, while the Marquis de\\nLafayette was in America. This nobleman,\\nbeing an old friend of the groom s father, Mr.\\nVictor du Pont, was present at the wedding,\\nwhich was one of the most important social\\nevents that the old town of New Castle had\\never witnessed. Upon this occasion, says\\none who described the wedding, Senator\\nVan Dyke allowed the doors and windows\\nto stand open so that the crowd about the\\nmansion could see General Lafayette and the\\nceremony. The chair occupied by Lafayette\\nwas slightly elevated over all the others in\\nthe room and festooned with flowers. After\\nthe ceremony Lafayette, of course, kissed the\\nBride.\\nMrs. du Pont died in 1858, and Mr. du Pont married\\nMiss Ann Ridgely, a daughter of Henry M. Ridgely, of\\nDover, Delaware.\\n227", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMalbone was in Philadelphia for a short\\ntime, and here painted miniatures of Colonel\\nand Mrs. Clement Biddle, of their son-in-law,\\nGeneral Thomas Cadwalader, and of the beau-\\ntiful Gratz sisters, Rebecca and Rachel. The\\ngreater part of Malbone s work was done in\\nNewport and in Charleston, South Carolina.\\nOne of the most charming of his miniatures is\\nthat of Isabel Barron, of Charleston, painted\\nin 1806. A little story has come down with\\nthe picture, which says that the artist fell in\\nlove with his beautiful sitter, and that when\\nthis circumstance transpired her father put a\\nstop to all further painting. This tradition\\nseems to be carried out by the miniature, as\\nsome of the details are not finished, the deli-\\ncate lace around the lovely throat being in\\nsome places merely outlined, while in others\\nit is filled in w^ith great care. Another interest-\\ning miniature of a South Carolina girl is that\\nof Mrs. Langdon Cheves, a daughter of Mr.\\nJoseph Dulles and his wife, Sophia Heatl^y,\\nof Charleston. Mrs. Cheves spent much of\\nher married life in the North, as Judge Cheves\\nwas a prominent figure in political life, and\\nwas obliged to be much of the time in Wash-\\nington and in Philadelphia. Judge Cheves was\\na colleague of Mr. Calhoun in Congress during\\nthe War of 1812, and w^as for a time Speaker\\nof the House of Representatives. His busi-\\nness and administrative abilities -were highly\\nthought of, and w^hen the affairs of the Bank\\nof the United States were involved in serious\\n228", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Langdoii Cheves\\nBy Edward Greene Malbone\\nIsabel Barron\\nBy Edward Greene Malbone", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndifficulties, he was urged to remove to Phila-\\ndelphia and accept the presidency of the bank,\\nwhich he did. It was at this time that Mr.\\nand Mrs. Cheves spent their summers in Lan-\\ncaster, Pennsylvania, where they owned a\\nhandsome country-seat near that of the Hon-\\norable James Buchanan, afterwards President\\nof the United States. Mr. Buchanan, who\\nentertained a warm admiration for the beauty\\nand grace of Mrs. Cheves, was fond of rela-\\nting a pleasant story of her as she appeared at\\nher own dinner-table. Mrs. Cheves, charm-\\ningly attired, was one day entertaining some\\ndistinguished guests, when the waiter, in\\npassing around the soup-tureen, after the\\ngood old style before dinners a la Russe were\\nin vogue, awkwardly overturned the contents\\nupon the delicate brocade gow^n of the hostess.\\nMr. Buchanan said that not only did Mrs.\\nCheves utter no expression of surprise or\\nanger, but without a word upon the subject\\nshe continued the conversation in which she\\nwas engaged. This lovely lady was not only\\nsw^eet-tempered and self-controlled, but highly\\ncultivated and possessed of some artistic abil-\\nity. A miniature of Colonel William Rhett,\\ncopied by her from the original which was\\npainted by a distinguished artist, is still in\\npossession of the family.* While in Philadel-\\nColonel William Rhett was, in 1702, appointed by Gov-\\nernor Nathaniel Johnson commander of the land and naval\\nforces of Carolina. Colonel Rhett, says his biographer,\\n229", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nphia Mr. and Mrs. Langdon Cheves lived on\\nLocust Street, at the corner of Washington\\nSquare, in a house which has been owned for\\nmany years by Dr. Horace Howard Furness,\\nthe great Shakespearian scholar and commen-\\ntator.\\nAmong miniatures painted by Malbone much\\nearlier than that of Mrs. Langdon Cheves,\\nare those of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dana, of\\nBoston, a handsome couple, in the becoming\\nand picturesque costume of the time. Looking\\nproved himself by his dauntless courage, regulated by\\nperfect coolness, -worthy of the post. In due time the tall\\nmasts of a French frigate, in company with three ships and\\na galley, appeared above the low, white sand ridge of Morris\\nIsland. A courier w^as immediately sent to Col. Johnson,\\nwho the next day, very much to the satisfaction of the in-\\nhabitants, rode into town. He forthwith called a council\\nof war, the minutes of w^hich read like some old English\\nburgher s meeting, during the reign of Elizabeth, for it w^as\\nquickly agreed to put some great guns on board of such\\nships as were in the harbor, and employ the sailors in their\\nown way in defense of the town. Of this fleet Col. Rhett,\\nwho although commanding the militia of the colony, seems\\nto have been quite as good a sailor as soldier, was made\\nvice-admiral. Col. Rhett whose gallantry contributed so\\nmaterially to the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet, lived\\nlong after the death of Col. Johnson. The risk of no enter-\\nprise seemed too great for his dauntless spirit. Among the\\nmany services which he rendered the colony was one w^hich\\neclipsed all others, for desperate bravery, his capture of\\nSteve Bonnes, the famous pirate. The worth of Col. Rhett\\nat length attracted the attention of the home government,\\nand he was appointed Governor of the Bahama Islands,\\nbut he died before the commission reached him.\\n230", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nat Mr. Dana s refined face, with its delicate\\nand finely-modelled features, we can under-\\nstand Mrs. John Adams s warm admiration\\nof the beauty of members of the Dana family\\nwhom she met abroad. Whether or not she\\nwas nearly related to Richard Dana, the Miss\\nDana whom Mrs. Adams saw in London\\nwas a niece of Francis Dana, United States\\nMinister to Russia. This young lady, whom\\nMrs. Adams likened to Calypso among her\\nnymphs, delicate and modest, had, she\\nadded, the best title of any Englishwoman\\nI have seen to the rank of a divinity. I would\\nnot have it forgotten that her father is an\\nAmerican, and, as he \\\\vas remarkably hand-\\nsome, no doubt she owes a large share of her\\nbeauty to him.\\nRobert Field, an English miniature painter,\\nwas in America in 1795 and 1796, and like all\\nother artists who came to the Republic,\\npainted a miniature of General Washington.\\nMr. Twining speaks of dining with Mr. Field\\nat the St. George s Society, in Philadelphia,\\nand of giving him a partial promise to sit to\\nhim for his miniature. To Mr. Field may be\\nattributed some of the unsigned miniatures\\nto be found in Philadelphia and other cities,\\nalthough some of them were doubtless painted\\nby another English miniature painter by the\\nname of Browne, whose name has naturally\\nbeen confused with that of the well-known\\nAmerican artist, John Henry Brown. The\\nEnglish artist, Browne, painted very remark-\\n231", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nable miniatures of Mrs. Willing Francis and\\nof Mr. and Mrs. John C. Montgomery.\\nAnother foreign artist, who came to Phila-\\ndelphia in the first quarter of the century,\\nwas Francis Martin Drexel, whose fame as\\na painter has been entirely overshadowed by\\nhis great success as an American banker. This\\nyoung man, the son of an officer in the Aus-\\ntrian army, studied in Rome before he came\\nto try his fortune in the New World. He\\nbrought letters to Joseph Bonaparte, then\\nliving at Bordentov^^n, New Jersey, who proved\\nto be a kind friend to the artist. Mr. Drexel\\nseems to have possessed considerable ability\\nas an artist and painted in various lines like\\nmost impecunious young painters, accepting\\nwhatever orders came to him. An altar-piece\\nwas executed by him for the Roman Catholic\\nChurch of Saint Peter s, in Reading, Pennsyl-\\nvania. This painting represented the Cruci-\\nfixion and was very beautiful. Mr. Ferdi-\\nnand J. Dreer, a distinguished Philadelphia\\nantiquarian, distinctly recalls a famous sign\\npainted by young Drexel for a lottery estab-\\nlishment, at the corner of Fourth and Chest-\\nnut Streets, where a fair lady, representing\\nColumbia, presided over a cornucopia from\\nwhich fell doubloons galore. Mr. Dreer says\\nthat this sign was painted upon canvas, and\\nas he recalls it, was beautiful and artistic.\\nAmong portraits painted by Mr. Drexel, still\\nto be seen in Philadelphia, are those of Mr.\\nand Mrs. George Washington Morris, a group\\n232", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nportrait of Gilbert Livingston Morris and\\nEdward Berean Morris,* and miniatures of\\nthe artist and his wife, which are in possession\\nof their daughter, Mrs. John G. Watmough.\\nMr. Pratt, w^ho knew^ Mr. Drexel well, says\\nthat his greatest success in painting was made\\nin Bolivia, South America, where he w^ent\\nabout 1825. Here he painted portraits of\\nGeneral Bolivar and other leading men in the\\nnew Republic. The money acquired in this\\nway enabled Mr. Drexel, when he returned\\nto Philadelphia, to enter into the banking oper-\\nations which, in the course of a few years,\\ngained for him a world-wide reputation. f\\nFrom the dignified and imposing portraits\\nthat have come down to us, we have been led\\nto think of our grandmothers as tall and stately\\ndames, moulded upon a larger pattern than\\nthe women of to-day. It is only from occa-\\nsional descriptions in old letters, and from the\\nsmall size of some of the garments worn by\\nthese ladies of the olden time which have\\nbeen preserved in certain families, that we\\nThese family portraits are owned by Mr. Harrison S.\\nMorris, of Philadelphia.\\nt Mr. Dundas T. Pratt says that Mr. Drexel began to\\npaint portraits of Bolivar in Philadelphia and painted them\\nduring the long voyage. He sold them in Bolivia at a\\ndoubloon apiece. On his return, he made his money on\\nPennsylvania currency when the banks of Pennsylvania\\nstopped payment. He afterwards went to Germany and\\nestablished the letter-of-credit system. Mr. Drexel had his\\noffice on Sixth Street, back of the Public Ledger Building.\\n233", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nhave had reason to form a different opinion.\\nIt was a rude awakening to many of us to\\nlearn upon good authority that Lady Wash-\\nington was of exceedingly small stature, and\\ninclined to embo7ipoint in middle life, while from\\na letter written by a Philadelphia beau in\\nColonial days, it plainly appears that the\\nbelles of that time were not all daughters of\\nthe gods, divinely tall. Mr. James Willing\\ngave the following very ungallant reason for\\nnot v/ishing to go to the Philadelphia Dancing\\nAssembly Among the principal managers,\\nsays the old chronicle, are Billy Allen and\\nJemmy Willing. The Subscribers may send\\na Ticket to any Young Lady for the Evening\\nNotwithstanding which Privilege J. Willing\\ntells me that He is almost tired of it because\\nthe Girls are so little.\\nIf these Colonial and Revolutionary dames\\nwere not all divinely tall, they certainly\\nappear divinely fair, and as their descend-\\nants of to-day look into the charming faces\\nthat have come down to them upon the can-\\nvases of Stuart, Peale, and Sully, or upon the\\nivories of Trott, Eraser, and Malbone, they\\nmay well exclaim with the New England poet\\nwho lost his heart to his own great-grand-\\nmother,\\nWhat if a hundred years ago\\nThose dose-shut lips had answered No\\n234", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nCHAPTER VIL MRS. RUSH AND HER\\nSALON\\nIT was said of the late Madame Aubernon\\nde Neurville that to her Parisian sa/on,\\nthe last sa/on where there was real\\ntalk, there came everyone that we read or\\nread of with interest. To the salon of Mrs.\\nJames Rush, of Philadelphia, the same epi-\\ngrammatic description may be applied with\\nequal pertinency, the Open, sesame to her\\ndrawing-room being talent, intellectual ability,\\nand the power to charm and entertain, rather\\nthan great wealth or social position, although\\nMrs. Rush by no means undervalued these\\nadvantages. Whatever mistakes may have\\nbeen made by her, and these were doubtless\\nexaggerated, all honor is due to Mrs. Rush for\\nhaving been one of the first women in Amer-\\nica to establish a social status in her home\\nbased upon higher standards, at a time when\\ndistinctions of a very artificial and absurd\\nnature still prevailed in the society of the\\nQuaker City.\\nNo woman had been so distinctly a leader\\nin the social life of Philadelphia since the days\\nof Mrs. William Bingham, and it may be said\\nw^ith truth that the influence exerted by Mrs.\\nRush was far more stimulating and elevating\\nthan that of Mrs. Bingham, as it -was more\\nintellectual. Luxury and the arts of living\\n235", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nhad made great strides in the years that had\\nintervened since the Binghams entertained in\\ntheir new mansion on Third Street. Although\\nColonel Maxwell, who came to this city in\\n1840, described it as having about it a gen-\\neral sombreness increased by the quantities of\\nQuakeresses and weeping willows you meet\\nat every turn, there is reason to believe that\\nthe Philadelphia of that day, as at an earlier\\ntime, was the centre of much genuine old-fash-\\nioned hospitality and of considerable gayety.\\nIt would be interesting to knov what fairy\\ngodmothers gathered about the cradle of little\\nPhcebe Ann Ridgway and conferred upon the\\nQuaker girl so strong a desire and such distinct\\nability to lead and shine in the world of let-\\nters and of society. Although born of Quaker\\nparents, Miss Ridgway, afterwards Mrs. James\\nRush, w^as not reared in the severe simplicity\\nof the Quaker life of old Philadelphia, as much\\nof her education v^^as gained abroad. Mr.\\nJacob Ridg^vay, one of the shrewdest of old-\\ntime merchants, was engaged in an extensive\\nshipping business as a partner in the firm of\\nSmith Ridgway. During the war between\\nEngland and France, it being necessary for\\none of the partners of the firm of Smith\\nRidgway to live abroad in order to protect the\\ninterest of the mercantile house, Mr. Ridgway\\nremoved to London with his family. He after-\\nwards resided in Antwerp, w^here he occupied\\nthe position of United States consul and be-\\ncame a partner in an Antwerp house.\\n236", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "Susan and Phoebe Ann Ridgway", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nFrom some lines written in the diary of Dr.\\nJames Rush, it appears that Mrs. Rush was\\nborn abroad. This entry of 1842 seems as if it\\nmight have been made to remind the writer\\nof his wife s birthday\\nP. A. R. born in London at No. 46 Bish-\\nopgate St., Tuesday, December 3, 1799, at half-\\npast four o clock P.M.\\nIn a family letter written the next year, little\\nPhoebe Ann Ridgv/ay is spoken of as a lively\\nbaby, which proves that her characteristic\\nenergy early impressed itself upon her rela-\\ntives. An elder sister, Susan or Susannah\\nRidgway, was born in Philadelphia, while\\nMrs. Rush s brother, John Jacob Ridgway,\\nw^as born in Paris.\\nA pleasing picture of the little sisters, Susan\\nand Phcsbe Ann Ridgway, was painted while\\nMr. and Mrs. Ridgway were living in Ant-\\nwerp. These two girlish figures in white\\nmuslin gow^ns are charming in their grace and\\nsimplicity. Phoebe s tiny red shoes peep out\\nfrom beneath her skirt, and as Susan was not\\nequipped ^vith the much-coveted red shoes,\\nshe was allo\\\\ved to carry a basket of gay\\nflowers, w^hile Phoebe s basket v/as empty,\\nfrom which it appears that Mr. and Mrs. Ridg-\\nway were as fair and impartial in meting out\\njustice to their offspring as the fathers and\\nmothers of Miss Edgeworth s Moral Tales.\\nThe fact that Phcebe Ann Ridgway s early\\neducation and associations were foreign, seems\\nto have been overlooked by many persons who\\n237", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nmisunderstood and misjudged her in her own\\ncity, a Continental education not being as usual\\nin the early years of the century as it is to-\\nday. Mrs. Rush early developed a taste for\\nsociety, for the gayer side of life, for beauty,\\nmusic, light, and color, as well as a decided\\nlove of letters. In her enjoyment of brilliant\\nand gorgeous surroundings, she seemed to\\nhave revived some remote and forgotten Ori-\\nental strain in her blood, \\\\vhile in her intelli-\\ngence, her keen perceptions, and her frankness\\nshe was all Anglo-Saxon.\\nDr. James Rush has sometimes been spoken\\nof as a recluse and a morose and gloomy man.\\nThis may have been the case after the death\\nof his wife but from all that can be gathered\\nfrom those who knew the Rushes in their\\nown home, theirs was a happy married life.\\nAlthough widely different in character and\\ntastes, they possessed certain meeting grounds\\nin their love of study and improvement and\\nin their delight in the society of intellectual\\nmen. Dr. Rush was a son of the more distin-\\nguished Dr. Benjamin Rush, and a brother of\\nthe Honorable Richard Rush, who represented\\nhis country in England and France. Having\\nenjoyed exceptional educational advantages at\\nhome and abroad. Dr. Rush was all his life a\\nstudent and a lover and collector of books and\\nof information upon a great variety of sub-\\njects. In addition to being engaged in the\\nactive practice of his profession, he made a\\nparticular study of the voice and the vocal\\n238", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\norgans, and wrote extensively upon these\\nsubjects. He did not, however, confine his\\nstudies to this one branch of learning, as is\\nproved by his note-books and diaries. The\\nnote-books, especially those kept while travel-\\nling abroad, afford an interesting example of\\nthe power for the accretion of a variety of facts\\npossessed by one individual. These books\\nabound in details regarding life, places, and\\npersons in Spain, Holland, Denmark, and\\nRussia, the capital of w^hich latter country\\nDr. Rush visited during the stirring days that\\nfollowed the assassination of the Emperor\\nPaul and the accession of his son Alexander.\\nAlthough content to spend his leisure hours\\namong his books. Dr. Rush heartily encour-\\naged his wife in her desire to make their home\\na social as well as an intellectual centre.\\nWhen learned men from abroad sought his\\nsociety in his study, he was proud to feel\\nthat he could offer them the attractions of his\\nwife s drawing-room, where they could not\\nfail to be delighted with the conversation of\\nMrs. Rush, who was cultivated, brilliant, and\\noriginal.\\nMrs. Rush was as fond of books as her\\nhusband, and was always engaged in some\\nespecial course of study but books alone did\\nnot satisfy her, she craved the stimulus of in-\\ntellectual companionship. Her mind was one\\nof unusual range and grasp, masculine rather\\nthan feminine in its characteristics. For this\\nreason, perhaps, Mrs. Rush preferred the so-\\n239", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nciety of intellectual men to that of her own\\nsex. She did not engage in the favorite pur-\\nsuits of the lady of forty years ago shopping,\\nvisiting, and the like. Much of her time was\\nspent in study, and the books that she read\\nwere of a kind that men were more ready to\\ndiscuss with her than ^A7omen. Judge Carle-\\nton, w^ho had entered into the most culti-\\nvated society in England and America, said\\nthat Mrs. Rush was the most intellectual\\nwoman whom he had met in this country,\\nadding that she possessed an eminently philo-\\nsophical mind.\\nIn the Old World, which she visited, it was\\nthe fashion for certain feminine l eaux espi-its to\\ngather about them a circle of able and distin-\\nguished men. Madame de Stael charmed by\\nthe pow^ers of her conversation and the won-\\nders of her mind all the men who approached\\nher, excepting only the great Napoleon, while\\ncertain gra^ide dames in England, as Lady Ash-\\nburton and Lady Holland, drew around them\\na circle of the wits and intellectual giants\\nof their time. Mrs. Rush s idea of holding a\\nsalo7i, of being at home to visitors at certain\\ntimes and not being subject to incursions from\\ncallers at all hours of the day, was one of her\\nforeign notions that made old Philadelphians\\nwonder and criticize. The custom of being\\nat home upon certain days to callers was\\nthen unusual in America, except in official\\ncircles, and Madam Rush s attempt to recon-\\nstruct society, according to methods that had\\n240", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nbeen adopted by an older civilization, was duly\\nresented. She frankly defended her position\\nby saying, You ladies waste a great deal of\\ntime in paying and receiving calls. I neither\\nvisit or receive visits except on my days.\\nDespite the unpopularity of some of her\\nforeign fashions, Mrs. Rush s balls and matinees\\nwere far too elegant and delightful to be ig-\\nnored, and men and women gladly accepted\\nher invitations and flocked to her entertain-\\nments, even if she declined to spend her days\\nin the drawing-room receiving a stream of\\nvisitors, and preferred her book or piano to a\\ndish of gossip at high noon. The hours of\\nthis busy woman s day were all appropriated\\nto study, to the practice of music, to reading,\\nand to a daily constitutional up and down\\nChestnut Street, from her house to the Dela-\\nware, which she never omitted. This prome-\\nnade w^as a sociable affair, as Mrs. Rush was\\nalways attended by two or three gentlemen\\nand met many acquaintances who joined her.\\nMen and w^omen, still in the prime of life,\\ndistinctly recall the rubicund face and portly\\nform of Mrs. Rush as she appeared on the\\nstreet \\\\vhile taking her vigorous constitutional.\\nOne person remembers her in a crimson silk\\ngow^n, which may have served to throw her\\nfar too brilliant complexion into the shade,\\nwhile still another recalls the stout figure of\\nthe lady of fashion, enveloped in a green velvet\\nmantilla, as she stood upon the sidewalk\\nenjoying raw oysters, in a truly democratic\\ni6 241", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfashion, at Tatem s famous oyster-stand en\\nTwelfth Street near Spruce.\\nWhether introduced as a fashion by Mrs.\\nRush, or simply by good common sense,\\nwalking was for some years a favorite amuse-\\nment in Philadelphia. Mr. Samuel Breck\\nspeaks of being elected to a famous walking-\\nclub in 1837, in which some of his associate\\nmembers were George Rundle, Thomas H.\\nWhite, Jacob R. Smith, John R. Coates, and\\nThomas F., Francis R., and Fishbourn Whar-\\nton. Mr. Breck confesses that some of these\\nold codgers, to use the French phrase, se\\npromenent en voiture^ insisting upon having\\ntheir carriages for the return trip. This was\\nin later and more degenerate days, when a\\nshort walk and a long dinner had come to\\nbe the only feats required of the members of\\nthis club. Mr. Thomas Fishbourn W^harton\\nspeaks of earlier and more vigorous days of\\nthe vi^alking-club, when he and Mr. Thomas\\nH. W^hite walked to Sloan s Mineral Spring,\\nthree miles from Camden, Ne\\\\v Jersey. Nor\\ndoes he make any mention of a dinner as the\\nreward of their labors.\\nAmong Mrs. Rush s cards are quite a num-\\nber upon which is written an informal engage-\\nment to take a walk. Some of these are in\\nFrench, as when Mr. Saul de la Nouvelle\\nOrleans wrote upon his card a few lines in\\nthat language to learn whether their prome-\\nnade should be at half-past two or five o clock;\\nother engagements are in Italian or Spanish,\\n242", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "Thomas Fishbourn Wharton\\nBy Vander Lyii", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nas Mrs. Rush, among other attainments, was\\nthe mistress of several languages. This ac-\\ncomplishment drew many strangers to the\\nRush mansion, where foreign officials and\\nvisitors from abroad, and from the southern\\nportions of our own continent, found a w^arm\\nwelcome and a hostess v/ho was ready to con-\\nverse with them in their own tongues. Joseph\\nBonaparte, who established himself in or near\\nPhiladelphia soon after his arrival in America,\\nwas a guest of Madam Rush. Among cards\\nleft at her house, 179 Chestnut Street, opposite\\nthe State House, are some bearing the auto-\\ngraph Le Cte. de Survilliers, which is the\\nname by which the ex-King of Spain was.\\nknown in Philadelphia life. He is described\\nby those who knew him as a courteous and\\ncharming man, although Mr. Samuel Breck,\\nwho met the Count on Third Street, said that\\nhis appearance was that of a plain country\\ngentleman, and that he could not help won-\\ndering why one of the nine servants whom\\nhe brought with him from England had not\\nbrushed his hat, which was decidedly shabby.\\nThe Comte de Survilliers spent a number\\nof years near Philadelphia. He lived first\\nat Lansdow^ne, John Penn s country-seat,*\\nMr. Breck says, under the date April 20, 1816, Yes-\\nterday, as we were going to Belmont, my neighbor, Farmer\\nBones, informed me that the ex-king of Spain, Joseph\\nBonaparte, had hired Lansdowne House for one year that\\nhe had been in his company in the morning, and found\\nhim a very plain, agreeable man.\\n243", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand afterwards at Point Breeze, near Borden-\\ntown, spending his winters in Philadelphia.\\nA house on Ninth Street above Spruce still\\nbears traces of the residence of the exiled\\nKing in the line of papering and decorations,\\nand the Countess de Cuelebroeck, then Miss\\nWilling, remembers a dinner given by the\\nComte de Survilliers at a house at the corner\\nof Twelfth and Market Streets, which he\\nrented from Stephen Girard.* It was at Point\\nBreeze that the Comte de Survilliers passed so\\nmany years, during which his exile was some-\\ntimes shared by his daughters, Zenaide and\\nCharlotte, by young Murat, his nephew, and\\nalways by his faithful attendant and friend,\\nLouis Maillard. Here Joseph Bonaparte lived\\nthe life of a country gentleman, surrounded\\nby such congenial friends as the Hopkinsons,\\nDu Barrys, and Tesseires, while from Phila-\\ndelphia and elsewhere he was visited by Mr.\\nCharles J. Ingersoll, Dr. Nathaniel Chapman,\\nGeneral Cadwalader, Stephen Girard, Richard\\nStockton, United States Senator, and by such\\nold soldiers of the Empire as Generals Henry\\nand Charles Lallemand. The Comte de Sur-\\nvilliers was upon intimate terms with Dr.\\nMonges, a French refugee, who came to Phil-\\nadelphia accredited by the Royal Academy of\\nThis was a three-story brick building, with a coach-\\nhouse in the rear, and was considered a complete estab-\\nlishment. At this time Mr. Girard lived on Water Street,\\nin a plain, old-fashioned house.\\n244", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMadrid and other scientific institutions abroad.\\nThe Princess Charlotte painted a portrait of\\nMiss Cora Monges, afterwards Mrs. Charles\\nDutilh.* A close friendship existed between\\nthe family of Joseph Bonaparte and the Hop-\\nkinsons. In one of the Count s letters, written\\nfrom Point Breeze in 1823, he speaks of the\\napproaching marriage of his daughter Char-\\nlotte to her cousin, Louis Napoldon, son of\\nLouis Napoleon ci-devant King of Holland.\\nIn her letters to Mrs. Joseph Hopkinson, writ-\\nten after her marriage, the Princess Charlotte\\nsigned her name Charlotte Napoleon.\\nWhile living in Bordentown and in Phila-\\ndelphia, the Comte de Survilliers entertained\\nhis friends most hospitably, and evidently ac-\\ncepted some invitations, as Dr. Rush recorded\\nin his diary entertainments given to the Count.\\nIn March, 1839, Dr. Rush wrote This day\\ngave dinner party and musical party in the\\nevening to Count Survilliers, Joseph Bona-\\nparte. This was while the Rushes were\\nliving on Chestnut Street, opposite the State\\nHouse, where they gave a number of small\\nmusical soiries and receptions, as hundreds\\nof notes of acceptance and regret, all care-\\nCharlotte Bonaparte possessed considerable artistic\\nability, and while at Bordentown with her father executed\\na number of sketches, paintings, and lithographs. Some\\nof her work was collected in a volume named Vues Pit-\\ntoresques de I Am^rique dessin^es par la Comtesse Char-\\nlotte Survilliers, 1824. She also exhibited some of her\\npaintings at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.\\n24s", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfully labelled and preserved by Dr. Rush,\\nabundantly testify. He also made notes upon\\nspecial occasions, as when he recorded in his\\ndiary on November 14, 1838 Madam Cara-\\ndori-Allan spent this evening with us in com-\\npany with a party, about fifty friends. She\\nsang five songs Madam B also sang. The\\ntwo Miss Fords played, as did Miss Margaret\\nSergeant and Mr. Taylor. The Miss Ser-\\ngeant here mentioned was afterwards the wife\\nof General George Gordon Meade, of Pennsyl-\\nvania. Another night. Dr. Rush wrote that he\\nand his wife went to the Musical Fund Hall\\nto hear Madame Caradori sing, after w^hich\\nthey repaired to Mrs. Carroll s, on Chestnut\\nStreet opposite the Mint, where they met\\nMadame Caradori and other friends, to the\\nnumber of about twenty, and spent the re-\\nmainder of the evening so agreeably that they\\ndid not return home until two o clock in the\\nmorning, which was rather gay for old Phila-\\ndelphia. The cheerfulness with which Dr.\\nRush recalls these nocturnal gayeties sug-\\ngests no thought of his having been bored by\\nthem.\\nMadame Caradori Allan had already sung\\nfor Dr. and Mrs. Rush at a niusicale in March,\\n1838, as appears from a note written by her\\nhusband, in which he thanks Mrs. Rush for\\nsome flowers sent to his wife, and says that\\nshe is occupied in preparing for the evening.\\nAmong Mrs. Rush s notes of acceptance to\\nthis entertainment is a very charming one from\\n246", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nMr. Moncure Robinson, in which he says I\\ntake occasion to apprize yourself and Dr. Rush\\nof a new acquaintance I have made through\\nMrs. Robinson, and who in time she will be\\nmost happy to present to you. Mrs. R. and\\nthis young gentleman are delighted with each\\nother and are both doing very well. I am\\nmyself however no very great admirer of the\\nyoung gentleman s voice which may be a good\\none, but has at present some harsh notes in\\nit; and will cheerfully give it up once for the\\nCaradori s.\\nMr. Moncure Robinson was a delightful con-\\nversationalist. Having known many interest-\\ning persons abroad and in his own country, he\\npossessed a vast fund of reminiscence, from\\nwhich his excellent memory enabled him to\\ndraw freely. Another charming racanteiir^ who\\nwas a frequent guest at the Rushes was Mr.\\nWilliam D. Lewis. Mr. Le^vis, having repre-\\nsented his country in Russia, was acquainted\\nwith that most difficult language, and trans-\\nlated a number of Russian poems into English.\\nAmong frequent and informal guests of\\nMrs. Rush, while she lived opposite the State\\nHouse, were Mr. and Mrs. W^illiam Jackson,\\nMr. and Mrs. James Dundas, Colonel and\\nMrs. Drayton, from South Carolina, beau-\\ntiful Mrs. John Craig, who afterwards married\\nEdward Biddle, the celebrated Dr. Jackson,\\nDr. William Keith, and Mr. Du Ponceau. The\\nFrench lawyer, Peter Du Ponceau, had served\\nunder General W^ashington, and after the War\\n347", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof the Revolution made his home in Philadel-\\nphia, where he was beloved by all who knew\\nhim. A pleasant story is told of Mrs. Pierce\\nButler (Fanny Kemble) and Mr. Du Ponceau.\\nOne winter day, when he was ill and feeble,\\nMrs. Butler called to see him, and finding that\\nfor some reason, probably because he real-\\nized that he might not live to see the light of\\nanother June, Mr. Du Ponceau had expressed\\na great desire for a rose. Roses in winter v/ere\\nnot plentiful then as now^, as only a few per-\\nsons had hot-houses but Mrs. Butler, whose\\nkind heart was touched by the old gentle-\\nman s desire, set forth determined to gratify\\nit. When she returned and found that Mr. Du\\nPonceau had fallen asleep, she gently placed\\nwhere he could see it as soon as he opened\\nhis eyes, a superb red rose, that bore in its\\nheart all the beauty and fragrance of the June\\nthat he was not destined to behold.\\nMr. and Mrs. John Sergeant and Mr. and\\nMrs. Nicholas Biddle were upon intimate\\nterms with Dr. and Mrs. Rush. Mr. Biddle\\nseems to have found favor in the eyes of the\\nchronicling and usually fault-finding M. de\\nBacourt, who v^^as in America in 1840, as he\\nrecorded of him At the Athenaeum I made\\nthe acquaintance of M. Bidole whose name\\nhas resounded in financial circles abroad.\\nM. de Bacourt described Mr. Biddle as a\\nhandsome man wearing a blue coat with brass\\nbuttons, yellow nankeen pantaloons, canary\\ncolored gloves, and a glossy beaver. It was\\n248\\nI", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nhe who said that the world was ruled by\\nthree boxes the ballot-box, the cartridge-box,\\nand the band-box. Mr. Biddle s quips and\\nquirks and jeu d esprits were as much prized in\\nhis day as were those of Francis Hopkinson\\nand Judge Peters, which served to enliven the\\ngloom of a darker period of our history. All\\nof these men possessed great social charm\\nand good-humor, and despite their gift of\\ntongues, w^ere ever more loved than feared.\\nMr. Samuel Jaudon, who was associated\\nwith Mr. Biddle, and went to England to\\nrepresent the interests of the United States\\nBank, was frequently at the Rushes while in\\nPhiladelphia.\\nA list of the visiting-cards left for Mrs. Rush\\nat the house 179 Chestnut Street, and at the\\nnew^ mansion further west on the same street,\\nwould not only make a fairly accurate social\\nregister of the period, but would also furnish\\nan almost perfect list of the visitors of distinc-\\ntion, native and foreign, who came to Phila-\\ndelphia during certain years. All strangers of\\nnote brought letters of introduction to Dr.\\nand Mrs. Rush, as their acquaintance, formed\\nw^hile abroad and during their summers at\\nSaratoga, w^as very large. One day Mr. Wald-\\nburg Barclay, of New York, w^rote to avail\\nhimself of the permission, which Mrs. Rush\\nhad given him at Saratoga, to introduce one\\nof his English friends, the Vice-Consul, Mr.\\nB a most agreeable gentlemanlike per-\\nson, who was passing through Philadelphia,\\n249", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nen route for \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Washington, whither he goes to\\nsee the republican king crowned. Another\\nday the Baron Davrainville wrote I have\\nthis instant met with Lord Chs Wellesley (the\\nDuke of W^ 2 son) and Capt. Lewis B. A.\\nWill Mrs. Rush permit me to introduce them\\nto her this evening, and w^ill she be kind\\nenough to send at Jones Hotel, Invitations for\\nthe same.\\nDr. Rush seems to have preserved all the\\nvisiting-cards left for Mrs. Rush and himself.\\nOn these bits of pasteboard, yellowed by time,\\nwe read the names of all well-known Phila-\\ndelphians, while from other cities and coun-\\ntries came many persons who have indelibly\\nimpressed their names upon the pages of\\nhistory, science, philosophy, and literature.\\nAmong these guests were George Bancroft,\\nthe historian Dr. Channing, the great Uni-\\ntarian preacher Dr. William H. Furness,\\na younger divine of the same persuasion\\nPresident Martin Van Buren, Mr. and Mrs.\\nFenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Miss\\nHarriet Martineau, v^^hom one lady speaks of\\nas so deaf and so decided in her opinions as\\nto make the give and take of conversation\\nimpossible, while Mrs. Pierce Butler said that\\nif her stay in Philadelphia were long enough,\\nshe and Miss Martineau might become friends.\\nGeneral J. Harlan, who had served under the\\nAmeer of Cabul, was entertained at the Rush\\nhouse, and doubtless had yards of Arabian\\nNights tales with which to entertain the guests\\n250", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "Mrs. John Jacob Ridgway\\nBy Alexandre Cabanel\\nPage 260", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nof Mrs. Rush and Henry W. Longfellow,\\nnot the beautiful old man who came to Phila-\\ndelphia in 1876, but the young poet with the\\nworld before him. These and many other\\npersons of distinction were w^armly welcomed\\nby Mrs. Rush, her quick appreciation of genius\\nand her readiness to honor it being one of the\\nadmirable sides of this ^voman s character.\\nAlthough never beautiful, even in her youth,\\nas is proved by a miniature which ^vas painted\\nsoon after her marriage, Mrs. Rush is de-\\nscribed by those who knev^ her well as hav-\\ning possessed a certain air of distinction, that\\ncommanded respect and attention, despite the\\ncoarseness of her face and the ungainliness of\\nher figure. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New\\nYork, who met Mrs. Rush at Saratoga and\\nelsewhere, said of her that she was alw^ays\\na grande dame, and whenever she entered a\\ndrawing-room, at home or abroad, she became\\nat once a centre of attraction and interest.\\nNo children of the same parents could have\\nbeen more unlike than Mrs. Rush and her\\nsister, Susan Ridgway. The latter was at-\\ntractive in appearance and as gentle and\\nretiring as Mrs. Rush was independent and\\npronounced. Susan Ridgway married Mr.\\nThomas Rotch, and after his death became\\nthe wife of the distinguished Dr. Rhea Bar-\\nton. Mrs. Barton was much beloved in her\\nnative city, where she spent the greater part\\nof her life.\\nBeing a woman of pronounced character,\\n251", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nstrong prejudices, and sometimes carrying her\\nfrankness to the extreme of brusqueness, Mrs.\\nRush made many enemies and was often the\\nsubject of ill-natured gossip. One day, at the\\ndinner-table of one of the large hotels at Sara-\\ntoga, some of the guests made a number of\\nunpleasant and disparaging remarks about\\nMrs. Rush, who was in the habit of spend-\\ning the summer at this watering-place. Miss\\nJosephine Iturbide was at the table, and after\\nlistening for some time w^ith growing indigna-\\ntion, she finally rose to her full height and,\\nwith a flash of righteous wrath in her fine\\nblack eyes, exclaimed, The woman of whom\\nyou are speaking is a friend of mine, and I call\\nupon you to prove the statements that you\\nhave made. The circle of gossips who had,\\nof course, no proofs, as they did not even\\nknow Mrs. Rush and were dealing in hearsays\\nsat silent and much discomfited before\\nMiss Iturbide s challenge, while a gentleman\\nin another part of the room came for^vard and\\nasked to be presented to Miss Iturbide, saying\\nthat he considered it an honor to take by the\\nhand a woman who could so nobly champion\\nan absent friend.\\nThat Mrs. Rush s social sway was arbitrary,\\nand sometimes even cruel, there can be little\\ndoubt. If any misguided aspirant to social\\njoys essayed to enter her doors unbidden, the\\nretribution that overtook the offender was as\\nswift and sure as a tongue barbed with the\\nkeenest satire could make it. It is, however,\\n252", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nonly fair to this woman to say that she was\\nmore prone to kindliness than to severity, and\\ndelighted to find in others the frankness that\\nshe herself exercised to the fullest extent. An\\nequally frank and very witty lady, whom she\\nwas in the habit of visiting at her home on\\nFourth Street, said to her one day Mrs.\\nRush, I w^ish to ask a favor of you. You al-\\nways send me invitations to your balls. As I\\nnever go to balls, I am obliged to sit down and\\ntell a story once every year by saying that I\\nregret not being able to accept your invitation,\\nwhen I don t regret it in the least. I would\\nmuch rather not have the invitation. Mrs.\\nRush laughed and said, I like your frankness,\\nMrs. Logan, and then and there promised\\nthat she should be troubled with no more invi-\\ntations, although she show^ed that she valued\\nMrs. Logan s friendship by visiting her fre-\\nquently.\\nWith all Mrs. Rush s love of books and\\nstudy, she was an executive woman and emi-\\nnently practical. Many persons remember\\nseeing her at market -when the market was\\nheld in the centre of Market Street, and scraps\\nof paper, still to be found among the Rush\\npapers, upon which are scribbled household\\nitems and accounts, prove that she attended\\npersonally to the ways of her household.\\nSome of these notes show that Mrs. Rush,\\nlike other great leaders and generals, paid the\\nmost minute attention to details. When a\\ngreat ball was on the carpet, every item was\\n253", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nnoted, from the thirty pounds of coffee that\\nwere to be roasted a week in advance and put\\naway in stone jars sealed, and the nine dozen\\nterrapin, to the ribbons for the programmes\\nand the oranges and lemons to be hung on the\\norange and lemon trees. It was character-\\nistic of Mrs. Rush that, in her abundant pro-\\nviding, she ordered generous rounds of corned\\nbeef for the musicians and coachmen.\\nIn London and Paris, in both of which cities\\nDr. Rush s brother, the Honorable Richard\\nRush, represented the United States, the\\nRushes received marked attention. In Paris,\\nwhich city they visited while Richard Rush\\nv^^as American Minister there, they were called\\nupon, not only by titled personages of the new\\nregime, but by stately dames from the Fau-\\nbourg St. Germain. Here such English and\\nAmerican acquaintances gathered around them\\nas the Marquess and Marchioness of Lans-\\ndowne. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, George\\nSumner, from Boston, Dr. and Mrs. Hay-\\nward, N. P. Willis, Washington Irving, the\\nHonorable Robert Walsh, Mr. Henry Beckett,\\nwho had married Mr. Walsh s daughter, Mr.\\nand Mrs. James Hopkinson, and Mr. George\\nTiffany, ^vho was anxious to present his niece\\nto Mrs. Rush. Mr. George R. Gliddon called\\nupon Mrs. Rush and sent her a specimen of\\nthe latest chique, as we gather from a tan-\\ntalizing card \\\\vhich gives us no inkling of what\\nthe latest chique was at that particular date\\nin the late forties.\\n254", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "1\\nMrs. John William Wallace\\nBy George Freeman\\nPage 261", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nSo much pleasure did Mrs. Rush find in her\\nforeign life, that it was her desire at this time\\nto establish her residence abroad. This plan,\\nhowever, did not suit Dr. Rush, who, although\\nhe had travelled much on the Continent in his\\nyouth as w^ell as in maturer years, spoke no\\nlanguage but his own, besides which he seems\\nto have possessed a genuine affection for his\\nnative country. Mrs. Rush s desires were\\noverruled by those of her husband in this\\ninstance, which goes to prove that Dr. Rush\\nwas not possessed of that yielding, almost\\nnegative, character with which some w^riters\\nhave been disposed to endow him. Those who\\nknew this interesting and individual couple\\nbest, say that Dr. Rush was very decided in\\nhis opinions upon what he considered subjects\\nof importance, while in all minor matters he\\nallowed his wife to exercise her judgment and\\ntaste. In the question of their future home\\nDr. Rush was not disposed to yield, and thus\\nto this quiet, unobtrusive scholar Philadelphia\\nwas indebted for the elegant and varied enter-\\ntainments, that made the Rush mansion a syn-\\nonym for what was gayest and most brilliant\\nin the social life of this city during the years\\nbetween 1848 and 1858.\\nFor some time after their return from abroad\\nDr. and Mrs. Rush lived at 358 Spruce Street,\\nin a rather small and unpretentious house.\\nThis was while the mansion on Chestnut\\nStreet was being built. Some time in 1850\\nthey moved into their new residence, as after\\n255", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthat year Dr. Rush s name appears in the\\ndirectories of the day as James Rush, M.D.,\\nChestnut Street west of Schuylkill Fourth.\\nThe Aldine Hotel stands upon the site of\\nthe Rush mansion and includes many of the\\nrooms that were once the scene of entertain-\\nments which, if we are to credit contempora-\\nneous descriptions, rivalled in splendor and\\nbrilliancy the famous scenes of the Thousand\\nand One Nights.\\nSome of the Rush furniture, in Buhl and in\\nrich damask and gold, is still preserved, and is\\nto be seen at the Ridgway Library, on South\\nBroad Street, where a room is fitted up with\\nthis furniture and lined with books of the\\nRushes, father and son. Certain pieces of\\nfurniture are not only rich, but in good taste,\\nw^hile most of the paintings, statuettes in\\nParian, vases, and other ornaments suggest\\npleasing reflections upon the immense strides\\nmade in artistic culture and feeling, since the\\ndays when Madam Rush furnished her new\\nmansion on Chestnut Street according to the\\ndictates of her fancy. Although a highly edu-\\ncated woman, Mrs. Rush does not seem to\\nhave possessed a discriminating taste in the\\nfine arts, if we may judge from the paintings\\nthat she bought for her house. It appears,\\nhowever, from letters and recollections of the\\nday, that unqualified admiration w^as accorded\\nto the architecture and furnishing of the man-\\nsion on Chestnut Street. Mrs. Henry Pratt\\nMcKean wrote to Dr. Rush, when Mr. Mc-\\n256", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nKean \\\\A^as building a house on Walnut Street\\nnear Twentieth, asking if her husband might\\nbe permitted to walk through the lower floor,\\nadding, the ornamentation of the rooms we\\nremember as very beautiful.\\nThe architecture and decoration of this house\\nwere not what lent to it its chief charm it\\nwas that Mrs, Rush possessed to an unusual\\ndegree the power of drawing together inter-\\nesting, learned, and agreeable people. At her\\ninformal receptions and her Saturday matinees\\nthis brilliant hostess drew around her soldiers,\\nstatesmen, men of affairs, novelists, musicians,\\nartists, princes, poets, and savants, a goodly\\ncompany, each freely contributing of his best\\nfor the general entertainment.\\nMiss Catharine Rush, in speaking of the\\nmatinees given by her aunt, at eleven o clock on\\nSaturday mornings, said that at these unique\\nentertainments more distinguished men and\\nwomen were gathered together than at any\\nother house in the United States. One person\\nwhom Miss Rush remembers distinctly was\\nHenry Clay, with his earnest, grave face, so\\nmuch absorbed in his own thoughts, or in ob-\\nserving the animated scene around him, that\\nhe appeared quite unconscious of the interest\\nand attention that he was exciting as the lion\\nof the hour.\\nA young Philadelphian \u00e2\u0096\u00a0who already gave\\npromise of a brilliant future. Dr. Joseph Leidy,\\n\\\\vas a chosen friend of both Dr. and Mrs.\\nRush. By the Doctor he was valued for his\\n17 257", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nscientific knowledge, and by the lady of the\\nhouse for a fine vein of humor and simplicity,\\nwhich belonged to him. This latter grace, per-\\nhaps the rarest, the gods bestow with seeming\\ncareless hand upon little children and great\\nmen, as if to prove in the latter case that much\\nlearning need not make men mad or sad.\\nWe can readily imagine, when Dr. Nathan-\\niel Chapman uttered his latest bon mot, or Dr.\\nLeidy related to the listening circle some of the\\nwonders of the fairyland of science in which\\nhe loved to roam, that the luxurious surround-\\nings of the house were for the moment for-\\ngotten, and champagne and terrapin were not\\nneeded to make the entertainment a success.\\nSometimes a fine vocalist would sing, Grisi,\\nMario, and other celebrated artists were fre-\\nquently presented to Mrs. Rush s guests\\nsometimes a recitation would be given or\\nsome great curiosity exhibited, and always\\nthere were good music and a general discus-\\nsion of the topics of the day.\\nAmong guests of Mrs. Rush -who could re-\\nlate tales worth hearing were Mr. George\\nRobins Gliddon, the archaeologist, who had\\nlived in Egypt as Vice-Consul, Mr. G. A. Peri-\\ncardis, and Mr. Thomas Fishbourn Wharton,\\nwho, in addition to the many voyages that he\\nhad made to China, enjoyed the distinction of\\nhaving been taken prisoner by a French vessel\\nand carried to Paris. Not being kept in severe\\ndurance, Mr. Wharton had many stories to\\ntell of the gay capital under the Directory, in\\n258", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nwhose streets he often met Madame Reca-\\nmier and Madame Beauharnais, afterwards\\nMadame Bonaparte. One of the brilliant fig-\\nures of the Rush entertainments of earlier\\ndays had passed away the sparkling wit of\\nNicholas Biddle no longer delighted the ap-\\npreciative hostess or the listening guests.\\nAn attractive feature of Mrs. Rush s house,\\nunusual in those days, was a conservatory\\non either side of the ball-room, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0which it was\\nDr. Rush s pleasure to fill with birds, as well\\nas with blooming plants. This combination\\nof conservatory and aviary added much to\\nthe fairy-like beauty of the scene. To the\\neyes of the many debutantes who made their\\nentree at Mrs. Rush s balls, the hostess, who\\nwithout beauty was capable of presenting\\na very magnificent appearance, must have\\nseemed like the Queen of Fairyland, albeit\\na very robust and portly Titania, habited\\nin rich velvet and lace instead of in the con-\\nventional gossamer and butterflies wings of\\nthe land of fancy. Around the hostess were\\ngrouped such veritable graces and beauties as\\nElizabeth Willing, who married Mrs. Rush s\\nbrother, John Jacob Ridgway Mrs. John\\nButler; the James sisters, Phoebe and Patty,\\nboth handsome, the latter distinguished for her\\nexquisite and spirituelle beauty Emeline and\\nCaroline Phillips Elizabeth Wadsworth, of\\nNew York, and her even more beautiful sister-\\nin-law, Mrs. James S. Wadsworth, who was\\na daughter of Mr. John Wharton, of Philadel-\\n259", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nphia. A frequent guest at Mrs. Rush s enter-\\ntainments recalls an evening when some lover\\nof beauty, seeing Mrs. John Jacob Ridgway,\\nMrs. Wadsworth, and Mrs. John Butler stand-\\ning a little apart from the company engaged in\\nconversation, dre^A7 a number of persons to the\\ndoor of the room that they might admire the\\ncharming tableau vivant of these three graces,\\neach one so lovely that it -was a puzzle to\\nthe beholder to know to which one should be\\nawarded the golden apple of the gods. The\\nthree matrons stood talking together some\\ntime before they realized that they formed a\\ndistinct centre of admiration and interest, and\\nthen, says the narrator, there was some indig-\\nnation on the part of the fair dames. Short-\\nlived anger was this, we may believe, as there\\nare few women, in the past or the present,\\nwho are capable of cherishing any very deep\\nresentment against those whose only offence\\nis to acknowledge and pay tribute to that\\npower which has moved men and nations, and\\nfar back in the world s history led armies to\\ncontend upon the shores of Hellas.\\nMrs. John Butler v^^as a daughter of Lewis\\nMorris, of Morrisania, New York, while from\\nher mother, Miss Manigault, of South Caro-\\nlina, she inherited her Southern beauty and\\ncharm of manner. The Honorable Craig\\nBiddle, in writing of Mrs. Butler, said that,\\nwith rare beauty and distinction of manners,\\nThe object of admiration both in this coun-\\ntry and in Europe, from her earliest years,\\n260", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Joliii lUiller\\nBy George Freeman", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nand frequenting for a time the gayest society,\\nshe preserved the same natural, unaffected de-\\nmeanor, and proved that spotless purity, even\\nfrom the breath of scandal, was compatible with\\nyouth, beauty, and every attraction and success\\nin social life. She possessed great tact, and\\nthat rare sense called common sense.\\nCaptain John Butler for many years com-\\nmanded the First Troop of Philadelphia City\\nCavalry, and at the breaking out of the war\\nw^ith Mexico raised a company of horse, of-\\nfered his services, and died during the cam-\\npaign. Captain Butler was a brother of Major\\nPierce Butler, who married Miss Frances Anne\\nKemble, whose marvellous impersonations are\\nstill remembered by old Philadelphians, who\\ndelight in describing her as she appeared as\\nJuliet or as Bianca in Fazio, in w^hich\\nlatter role Miss Kemble made her dSu^ in New\\nYork and in Philadelphia.\\nOther belles and beauties ^vho added to the\\nbrilliancy of Mrs. Rush s entertainments were\\nMrs. John William Wallace, who inherited\\nthe proverbial Willing beauty, the Misses Mc-\\nIlvaine, one of whom married Mr. W^illiam\\nCamac, and Mrs. Carleton, the wife of Judge\\nCarleton. Judge and Mrs. Carleton had no\\noccasion for reprisals, as both had been mar-\\nried before. Mrs. Carleton, born Maria Van\\nDer Burgh, had married Mr. Wiltbank in her\\nearly youth, while Judge Carleton s first wife\\nwas Aglae d Aversac de Castera, a sister\\nof Louise d Aversac, who married Edward.\\n261", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nLivingston, of New York. Judge Carleton\\nwas a man of distinguished ability and attain-\\nments, and so charming in conversation and\\nmanner that Mrs. Rush w^as pleased to call\\nhim the Chesterfield of America. Especial\\nfriends of Dr. Rush as well as of Mrs. Rush,\\nJudge Carleton and his wife were al^vays\\nwarmly welcomed to their home. When Mrs.\\nCarleton entered the reception-room, in her ex-\\nquisite French costumes of ermine and velvet,\\nMrs. Rush would sometimes thank her for\\nadding so much to the beauty of her rooms by\\nher attractive appearance, which proves that\\nthis w^oman who had the reputation of making\\nsarcastic remarks, could also be gracious and\\nappreciative.\\nAnother instance of Mrs. Rush s kindness\\nto young guests from another city has been\\npreserved in the Mason family of Georgetown.\\nIt was an open secret that Dr. Rush had in\\nhis youth been in love with Miss Eliza Chew.\\nMiss Chew^ married Mr. James M. Mason.\\nMany years later the daughters of this couple\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were making a visit to Philadelphia. Mrs.\\nRush received them in her home with warm\\nhospitality, saying to Miss Mason, You know\\nvery ^vell, my dear, that if your mother had\\nchosen to come, I should not be here. In\\nview of the well-known fact that Mrs. Rush s\\nlarge means provided the beautiful surround-\\nings in -which she received her guests, this\\nspeech was as generous as it was graceful.\\nAlthough Mrs. Rush made no secret of the\\n262", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "Mrs. James S. VVadsworth\\nBy Thomas Sully", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nfact that she preferred the society of intelli-\\ngent men to that of the average woman, she\\nhad ^varm friends among her own sex. The\\nyounger women w^hom she liked and admired\\nwere Mrs. Joshua Lippincott, the niece and\\nadopted daughter of Mr. James Dundas witty,\\nvivacious Mrs. George Chapman and Mrs.\\nOliver Hopkinson, w^ho recalls delightful even-\\nings at the Rush mansion and at her own\\nhouse, v/here Dr. and Mrs. Rush were frequent\\nguests. Mrs. Hopkinson, with a humorous\\ntwinkle in her eye, tells of a certain Baron\\nP who came to Philadelphia with letters\\nto the German Consul and to Mrs. Rush. The\\nstranger was entertained by Mrs. Rush, who\\nasked Mrs. Hopkinson to invite him to one of\\nher evening parties, w^hich she did. The man-\\nners of the Baron -were noticed to be rather\\npeculiar, and at the end of a few days he sud-\\ndenly left the city. From letters received by\\nthe Consul, it appeared that he and Mrs. Rush\\nhad both been deceived by an impostor. This\\nincident w^as not one of Mrs. Rush s favorite\\nreminiscences, as she prided herself upon her\\nknowledge of the world and of human nature.\\nA New York beauty ^vho v^^as frequently to\\nbe met at the Rushes was Elizabeth Wads-\\nworth, a sister of General James S. Wads-\\nw^orth, of Geneseo. Miss Wadsworth was an\\nintimate friend of the Hopkinsons, by whom\\nshe is described as lovely in character as Avell\\nas beautiful in person. For Mr. Joseph Hop-\\nkinson s daughter, Mrs. William Biddle, Miss\\n263", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nWadsworth had her portrait painted by Sully,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which is still in possession of the Hopkinson\\nfamily. When the Honorable Charles Augus-\\ntus Murray was in America collecting mate-\\nrials for his book of travels among the Indians\\nof North America, and for his Prairie Bird,\\nwhich appeared later, he met Miss Wads-\\nworth and became warmly attached to her.\\nThe American beauty returned the affection\\nof her English lover, but refused to marry him\\nand leave her father. Some years later, after\\nthe death of Mr. Wadsworth, his daughter\\naccepted an invitation to go abroad with a\\nparty of friends. In London or in Paris she\\nmet Mr. Murray, who had remained faithful\\nto his early love they became engaged, were\\nmarried, and went to Cairo, where Mr. Murray\\nheld an official position.\\nAmong frequent guests of Mrs. Rush s v/ere\\nMrs. Edward Biddle, who as Mrs. John Craig\\nhad visited her in her home opposite the State\\nHouse; Commodore and Judge Biddle, and\\nMr. Henry D. Gilpin, whose Southern wife\\nafterwards held an interesting and attractive\\nsalon in Philadelphia; while from New York\\nthere came Eugene Livingston, Mrs. Van\\nRensselaer, of Albany, Miss Euphemia Van\\nRensselaer, Dr. Valentine Mott, and Miss\\nLynch, aftev/ards Mrs. Botta, who gathered\\naround her in her own salon in New York all\\nthe clever people, the brilliant conversational-\\nists, the artists, and literati of her time.\\nMrs. Rush, with whom the art of enter-\\n264", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ntaining had been elevated to the dignity of a\\nscience, had her codes and aphorisms. One\\nof her favorite sayings was An ex-Presi-\\ndent, a foreign minister, a poet, two or three\\nAmerican artists, as many lady authors, a\\ndozen merchants, lawyers, physicians, and\\nothers w^ho are there on the simple footing\\nof gentlemen their wives who come as re-\\nspectable and agreeable ladies fifty young\\nmen who are good beaux and dance well, fifty\\npretty girls without money, but respectable,\\nwell dressed, lively, charming, are always in-\\ndispensable at a party.\\nOf pretty girls and worthy young men who\\nwere ready to dance to the piping of Mrs.\\nRush s fiddlers, there were doubtless no lack;\\nbut in securing the requisite complement of\\nlady authors, the pow^ers of this valiant\\nhostess must at times have been taxed, as\\nwomen writers were not as numerous in old\\nPhiladelphia as in that of to-day. Mrs. Rush,\\nhow^ever, made the most of what she could\\ncommand. Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, probably\\nthe first woman editor in America, was then\\nconducting the Godeys Ladys Book in Phila-\\ndelphia, and Miss Eliza Leslie, who so charm-\\ningly combined the ideal and the practical,\\nwas writing her clever tales, compiling her\\ncookery books, and editing her magazine.\\nMiss Leslie w^as often at Mrs. Rush s house\\nwith her beautiful sister, Patty, who married\\nMr. Henry C. Carey.\\nTo her gay freight of belles and beaux, this\\n26s", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\ndiplomatic hostess added as ballast a number\\nof older men and women who preferred cards\\nor conversation to dancing, and always such\\nlions in literature, art, and science as happened\\nto be roaming about Philadelphia at that time.\\nIt was this latter feature of Mrs. Rush s enter-\\ntainments that won for them their title to dis-\\ntinction. Other Philadelphians gave handsome\\nballs, and dances of greater or less brilliancy,\\nbut her entertainments possessed the unique\\nattraction of drawing together the wise and\\nlearned as w^ell as the gay and the pleasure-\\nloving.\\nWhen she gave her great balls Mrs. Rush\\nstood at the entrance to her reception-room,\\nwhich was on the left of the hall. Through\\nthis reception-room the guests passed, and\\non through another small room into the large\\nball-room, which included the two drawing-\\nrooms and the hall, the doors being so arranged\\nthat these three rooms could be thrown into\\none. The conservatories occupied the wings\\non either side, between which lay the garden,\\nw^hich, like the conservatories, w^as always\\nbrilliantly illuminated. The supper-room was\\non the second floor ever the ball-room. The\\nbuffet was along the side of the room, the\\ngreat supper-table, which could accommodate\\nsixty persons, being in the centre. Here the\\nladies were all seated, the gentlemen standing\\nbehind their chairs to wait upon them. In\\nthis instance Mrs. Rush was kind to her o^vn\\nsex in sparing them from standing with a plate\\n266", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "Nicholas Biddle\\nBy Thomas Sully", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nin one hand and a wine-glass in the other,\\nwhile they balanced in their minds the rival\\nclaims of nectar and ambrosia. How the ap-\\npetites of the waiting gentlemen were satisfied\\nis involved in some doubt, as it was clearly\\nunderstood that there w^as to be no undue loit-\\nering at the festal board. In those hours of\\nstorm and stress even this valiant hostess\\nmust have longed for the serene face and\\nsteadfast cheek of the unflinching Bogle,\\nwho, -whether his duty called him to preside\\nover scenes of joy or woe, was more than\\nequal to each occasion. This celebrated waiter,\\nw^ithout whom no Philadelphian of a certain\\nstation in social life could entertain, be chris-\\ntened, married, or buried with due state, pro-\\npriety, and solemnity, has been immortalized\\nby Mr. Nicholas Biddle in some of his humor-\\nous verses. Of this colorless colored man\\nRobert Bogle was a light mulatto Mr. Biddle\\nwrote\\nSee him, erect, with lofty tread,\\nThe dark scarf streaming from his head,\\nLead forth his groups in order meet\\nAnd range them grief-wise in the street\\nPresiding o er the solemn show\\nThe very Chesterfield of woe.\\nNor less, stupendous man thy power\\nIn festal than in funeral hour,\\nWhen gas and beauty s blended rays\\nSet hearts and ball-rooms in a blaze,\\nOr spermaceti s light reveals\\nMore inward bruises than it heals\\n267", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0357.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nIn flames each belle her victim kills,\\nAnd sparks fly upward in quadrilles\\nLike iceberg in an Indian clime\\nRefreshing Bogle breathes sublime\\nCool airs upon that sultry stream,\\nFrom Roman punch and frosted cream.\\nBogle, like his genial chronicler, had taken\\nhis place in the halls of the immortals, the\\nundertaker had been overtaken, and John-\\nson and Chew marshalled the gay throng in\\nMrs. Rush s dining-room.\\nIn was on the occasion of one of the last of\\nthese great balls that the affair of the Rush\\ndiamonds occurred, which stirred the Phila-\\ndelphia world of that day as once the world\\nof Paris was stirred by the mystery of a\\ndiamond necklace. The story, a twice-told\\ntale to many old inhabitants, runs thus The\\nball, given in January, 1857, was one of great\\nsplendor. Mrs. Rush is described by a lady,\\n^vho distinctly recollects many incidents of\\nthis famous entertainment, as standing at the\\nentrance to the reception-room to welcome\\nher guests, attired in crimson velvet trimmed\\nwith rich white lace, her neck and arms blazing\\nv^ith jewels. This lady recalls the beauty\\nand brilliancy of the scene, the last of many\\nballs given by this hospitable couple, who\\nwere so soon to be the victims of a strange\\nand mysterious robbery. The narrator re-\\nmembers that a light fall of snow covered the\\nground when the guests tripped down the\\nsteps to their carriages. It was about five in\\n268", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0358.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "Mrs. Nicholas Kiddle\\nBy Thomas Sully\\nMl", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0359.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0360.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nthe morning when, the last guest having de-\\nparted, Dr. and Mrs. Rush retired to their\\nrooms, Mrs. Rush removed her diamonds,\\nwhich were valued at twenty-one thousand\\ndollars, and left them in their caskets on her\\ndressing-table, the outer door of her room, ac-\\ncording to her own account, not being fas-\\ntened. Overcome by the fatigue of the evening,\\nshe dismissed her maid and retired at once,\\nwithout stopping to put away her jewels. In the\\nshort interval before daylight Mrs. Rush fan-\\ncied that she heard the door leading from her\\nroom to Dr. Rush s open and shut but sup-\\nposing that it was her husband passing through,\\nshe paid no attention to the circumstance. He,\\ntoo, heard the noise, and w^ondered what\\nAnn was up for, but paid no attention to it.\\nAt daylight the next morning Mrs. Rush recol-\\nlected that she had not left on the ledge or\\ntable outside some money for an article that\\nshe w^as always accustomed to send to market\\nfor on that day, which must be purchased\\nearly. She rose and went to her bureau-\\ndra\\\\ver, in which she had left some money\\nthe money was gone; she opened the jewel\\ncaskets, which were empty.* She instantly\\nIn one account of this affair, it is stated that the robbery\\noccurred a night and a day after the ball, as Dr. and Mrs.\\nRush slept very late into the next day. This seems rather\\nimprobable for several reasons, and may be almost dis-\\nproved by the fact that Mrs. Rush could not have sent her\\nmaid to market on Sunday morning. This ball, like all\\nthe Rush balls, was given on Friday night.\\n269", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0361.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\naroused Dr. Rush, who bade her keep still\\nwhile he examined the doors of the house. All\\nwere locked and the outer hall door was duly\\nfastened. The new^-fallen snow showed no\\ntrace of footsteps. Dr. Rush called a detec-\\ntive the servants AA^ere assembled and told\\nthat they must submit to an examination. Not\\na trace of the thief or booty could be found.\\nThe police of Philadelphia did their best, but\\ndiscovered nothing. The matter created a\\ngreat sensation and was the subject of news-\\npaper comment in other cities. Many persons\\ninsisted on suspecting one of the guests at the\\nball, but Dr. and Mrs. Rush seem to have\\nthought otherwise. The detective fancied\\nsomething suspicious in the manner of the\\ncook, who w^as engaged to a jeweller in\\nNew Orleans, ^vhom she afterwards married.\\nNothing could be proved, however, to justify\\nher detention.\\nThis is the clearest and most detailed ac-\\ncount of the transaction that has yet appeared.\\nIt was currently reported at one time that the\\njewels had been restored, also that Dr. and\\nMrs. Rush had discovered the offender, w^hose\\nname they suppressed from motives of delicacy\\nand kindness. This latter is only an on dit.\\nNothing has been absolutely proved; and so\\nthe interesting affair of the Rush diamonds\\nmust be left among the unsolved mysteries of\\nhistory and romance.\\nNot many months after this famous ball,\\nwhich became notable on account of the\\n270", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0362.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "SALONS COLONIAL REPUBLICAN\\nstrange disappearance of the jewels of the\\nhostess, Mrs. Rush died suddenly at Saratoga.\\nDr. Rush, lonely and old before his time, re-\\nturned to the great house on Chestnut Street,\\nwhere he led the life of a recluse. The spa-\\ncious rooms w^ere all closed except the one or\\ntwo which he used, and here he lived alone\\nthe remainder of his days. After the death of\\nDr. Rush, it was found that a large portion of\\nthe fortune that he and Mrs. Rush had enjoyed\\nw^as left for the erection of a library on Broad\\nStreet. This library, in accordance with the\\nmodest request of Dr. Rush, was to be called\\nthe Ridgway Library, the bulk of their fortune\\nhaving come from the father of Mrs. Rush, old\\nJacob Ridgway, the Quaker merchant.\\nThe Ridgway Library on South Broad Street,\\nwith its many rare books and manuscripts and\\nits pleasant reading-rooms and alcoves, is a\\nfitting memorial to Mrs. Rush, who w^as all\\nher life a lover and patron of letters. Yet her\\nhighest claim to distinction will ever rest in the\\nfact that she gathered around her the brightest\\nand best men and women in her own city,\\nand afforded them opportunities to meet dis-\\ntinguished persons from other cities and lands.\\nFor this, her name should descend to posterity\\nwith those of the pn cieuscs of France, who\\ngave to the w^orld the highest ideal of the\\nsalon, and with the names of such English\\nwomen as Mrs. Elizabeth Montague, Mrs.\\nElizabeth Carter, and charming Mary Clarke,\\nMadame Mohl.\\n271", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0363.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0364.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nAbercrombie, Dr., log.\\nAdams, Abigail (Mrs. William\\nS. Smith), 45.\\nAdams, Charles, 45.\\nAdams, Henry, historian, 187,\\n188.\\nAdams, John, in Philadelphia,\\ns8, 77, 83, 105, lo8, 112, 170 Vice-\\nPresident, 35, 43; advice on\\netiquette, 36-39 salary of, 41\\nin London, 44, loi President\\nof United States, 153, 181-183.\\nAdams, John Quincy, 103, 206.\\nAdams, Mrs. John, letters of, 63\\nin London, 102, 231 impres-\\nsions of Philadelphia, 103-106\\nadmires Philadelphia women,\\nJ34i 135. 141 1 150 ability of, 149,\\n192 in Washington, 180-183\\ndrawing-room of, 182-184.\\nAlexander, Catherine, 64 (see\\nLady C. Duer).\\nAlexander, William, Earl of\\nStirling, 64, 66.\\nAlison, Dr. Francis, 38.\\nAllen, Ann, 94 (see Mrs. John\\nPenn).\\nAllen, Mrs. William, 130.\\nAllen, William, Chief Justice,\\n25-37, 94, 212.\\nAlsop, John, 44.\\nAlsop, Mary (Mrs. Rufus King),\\n44.\\nAmes, Fisher, 49, 103.\\nAndre, Major John, 78.\\nArmstrong, General John, Secre-\\ntary of War, 204, 205.\\nArnold, General Benedict, 95, iig.\\nArnold, Mrs. Benedict, 133, 145.\\nAshburton, Lady (Anne Louisa\\nBingham), 141, 152, 219.\\nAshburton, Lady Harriet, 153,\\n240.\\nAshburton, Lord (Alexander\\nBaring), 152, 155, 219.\\nAstor, Mrs. John Jacob, of New\\nYork, 251.\\nAsylum, 146.\\nB\\nBache, Mrs. Richard, 131, 133.\\nBacourt, M. de, 248.\\nBagot, Sir Charles, 207.\\nBancroft, George, historian, 250.\\nBank of North America, char-\\ntered, 136, 137.\\nBaring, Henry, 152, 153.\\nBaring, Hon. Alexander, 152 (see\\nLord Ashburton).\\nBaring, Sir Francis, 152.\\nBaring, William Bingham (Lord\\nAshburton), 153.\\nBarlow, Joel, 111.\\nBarnes, Mrs. (Priscilla Birch),\\nminiature of, 223.\\nBarron, Captain James, of Ches-\\napeake, 30O.\\nBarron, Isabel, miniature of, 338.\\nBarton, Benjamin Smith, 110.\\nBarton, Dr. and Mrs. Rhea, 351.\\nBarton. Judge William, designs\\nseal of United States, 110; por-\\ntrait of, 110, 213.\\nBarton, Mrs. William, portrait\\nof, 113, 313.\\nBarton, Rev. Thomas, 17, 113.\\n18\\n273", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0365.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nBartram s Garden, io8.\\nBartram, John, log.\\nBartram, William, log, no, 167.\\nBayard, James A., 206.\\nBayard, Mrs. John, 53.\\nBeaujolais, Due de, in Philadel-\\nphia, 158.\\nBeckett, Henry, 254.\\nBeekman, Mrs. James, 53.\\nBell, Mrs. David (Judith Gary),\\n23.\\nBembridge, Henry, 211.\\nBeveridge, John, 27, 28, 220.\\nBiddle, Colonel Clement, 93, 117,\\n223.\\nBiddle, Commodore, 264.\\nBiddle, Hon. Craig, 260, 264.\\nBiddle, Mrs. Clement, 23, 228.\\nBiddle, Mrs. Edward (Mrs. John\\nCraig), 247, 264.\\nBiddle, Mrs. Nicholas, 227,248.\\nBiddle, Mrs. William, 263.\\nBiddle, Nicholas, portrait of, 227\\nappearance, 248 wit of, 249,\\n259 verses of, 267.\\nBingham, Anne Louisa (see\\nLady Ashburton).\\nBingham, Maria Matilda, 152,\\n153.\\nBingham, Mrs. AA^illiam, ad-\\nmired by Mrs. Adams, 105, 141,\\n142, i3i attractions of, 129, 146,\\n148 marriage of, 135 abroad,\\n138 has portrait of Washing-\\nton painted, 139, 140 portraits\\nof, 141 family of, 144, 155\\ndrawing-room of, 149, 150, 162,\\n235 difficulty with Wignell,\\n150-152 marriage of daughters,\\nJ52-I55-\\nBingham, William, new house,\\n78, 142, 143, 145, 236 owns Lans-\\ndowne, 99 financial aid in\\nRevolution, 136, 137; friendship\\nwith Lord Lansdowne, 138, 140\\nportraits of, 141, 219 friend of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Washington, 146; marriage of\\ndaughters, 152-155.\\nBinney, Hon. Horace, 162.\\nBinney, Mary, 160.\\nBinney, Susan (Mrs. John B.\\nWallace), 107.\\nBirch, William R., artist, an\\nenamels of Washington, 221\\nrecollections of, 216-221 anec-\\ndote of Athenaeum portrait, 321,\\n222 miniatures, 223, 224.\\nBlackwell, Rev. Robert, 109, 144.\\nBland, Colonel Theodoric, 48, 133.\\nBlodget, Samuel, 173, 174.\\nBogle, Ode to, 267, 268.\\nBolivar, General Simon, 233.\\nBonaparte, Charlotte, 244, 245.\\nBonaparte, Joseph, at Point\\nBreeze, 220, 232, 244, 245 at the\\nRushes 243, 245.\\nBonaparte, Madame Jerome, 304.\\nBonaparte, Zenaide, 344.\\nBond, Phineas, 25.\\nBond, Thomas, 25.\\nBordley, Elizabeth, 156.\\nBoston, society in, 128, 129.\\nBotta, Mrs. Vincenzo, 264.\\nBowdoin, Governor James, 51.\\nBradford, William, Attorney-\\nGeneral, 43, 75, 117.\\nBradford, William, early printer,\\n29.\\nBradford, William, patriot\\nprinter, 28, 29.\\nBradstreet, Mrs. Simon, 13.\\nBreck, Hon. Samuel, recollec-\\ntions of, 128, 131 at the Bing-\\nhams 138, 139, 149; friend of\\nFrench exiles, 158, 159 in\\nWashington, 197.\\nBreck, Samuel, Sr., of Boston,\\n128, 158.\\nBrown, John Henry, artist, 211,\\n231.\\nBrowne, English artist, 231.\\nBryas, Countess Jacques de, 141.\\nBuchanan, James, 229.\\nBullus, Dr. John, affair of Ches-\\napeake, 199, 200; portraits of,\\n213.\\n274", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0366.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nBullus, Mrs. John, igg, 200.\\nBurd, Edward, 145.\\nBush Hill Hospital, 171.\\nButler, Captain John, 261.\\nButler, Major Pierce, 166, 261.\\nButler, Mrs. John, 259-261.\\nButler, Mrs. Pierce (F. A, Kem-\\nble), 24S, 250.\\nByrd, Colonel William, 145.\\nByrd, Mrs. William, 144, 145.\\nCad^vaIader, Colonel Lambert,\\nCadwalader, Dr. Thomas, 25.\\nCadwalader, Frances, 153 (see\\nLady Erskine).\\nCadwalader, General John, 199.\\nCadwalader, General Thomas,\\n328, 244.\\nCadwalader, Mrs, John, 195, 197,\\nigS.\\nCallander, Mrs. James H., igS,\\n199.\\nCamac, Mr. and Mrs. William,\\n261.\\nCaradori-Allan, Madame, 246, 247.\\nCarey, Mr. and Mrs. H. C, 265.\\nCarleton, Judge, 240, 261, 262.\\nCarleton, Mrs., 262.\\nCarlyle, Jane Welsh, 152.\\nCarpenter, Joshua, 19.\\nCarroll, Charles, of Carrollton,\\n43, 60.\\nCarroll, Daniel, 177.\\nCarroll, Mrs. Charles (Harriet\\nChew), 225, 226.\\nCary, Colonel Archibald, 23.\\nCaton, Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 60.\\nChambers, Charlotte, ro6, 107.\\nChapman, Dr. Nathaniel, 244,\\n263.\\nChapman, Mrs. George, 263.\\nChase, Judge Samuel, 218, 219.\\nChastellux, Marquis de, in Phila-\\ndelphia, 74, 119, 130; remarks\\non society in Philadelphia, no,\\n131-135 in South and East,\\n127-129.\\nChestnut, Mrs. James, 161, 168.\\nCheves, Judge Langdon, 228-230.\\nCheves, Mrs. Langdon, 228-230,\\nChew, Ann, 207, 208.\\nChew, Chief-Justice Benjamin,\\npolitical positions of, 83, 84\\ntown residence, 99 German-\\ntown home, H7, 225.\\nChew, Peggy (Mrs. John E.\\nHoward), 99.\\nChew, Sophia (Mrs. Henry\\nPhilips), 139, 225.\\nClay, Henry, 206 guest of Mrs.\\nRush, 257.\\nClifford, Anna, 32, 90.\\nClifford, John, 85, 90.\\nClifford, Thomas, 31.\\nClinton, Mrs. George, 53,\\nClinton, Sir Henry, iig.\\nClymer, George, 47, 67, 68, 99, 105,\\n213.\\nClymer, Mary, 141.\\nClymer, Mrs. Henry, 154, 155.\\nClymer, William Bingham, 141.\\nCockburn, Admiral, 206.\\nColeman, Elizabeth, 214.\\nCollege of Philadelphia (Univer-\\nsity of Pennsylvania), founding\\nof, 26, 27, 30.\\nConyngham, David H., 136, 158.\\nCooper, Dr. Samuel, 170.\\nCopley, John Singleton, artist,\\n217.\\nCosway, Richard, artist, 225.\\nCox, Colonel John, Assistant\\nQuartermaster, 99, 100, 117, 168.\\nCox, Elizabeth, i5i, 162.\\nCox, Mrs. John,, 99, 100, 157 let-\\nters from Philadelphia, 160, 161,\\n16S, 169.\\nCox, Sarah (see Mrs. John R.\\nCoxe), 157.\\nCoxe, Dr. John R., 168-170, 3X3.\\nCoxe, Mrs. John R., 155, 156,\\n161, 168.\\nCoxe, Tench^je.\\n27s", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0367.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nGushing, Judge William, 223.\\nGushing, Mrs. William, 223, 224.\\nGustis, Eleanor Parke (Mrs.\\nLawrence Lewis), 52, 97.\\nGustis, Eliza Parke (Mrs. Thomas\\nLaw), 97.\\nGustis, G. W. P., 52, 116, 200.\\nGustis, Martha Parke, 97.\\nGutler, Rev. Manasseh, New\\nYork diary, 49, 50, 56, 65, 66.\\nGutts, Mrs. Richard, igi, 192.\\nDamas, Charles, Comte de, 129,\\n130. 133.\\nDana, Mr. and Mrs. Richard,\\nminiatures of, 230, 231.\\nDecatur, Stephen, 208.\\nDrayton, Col. and Mrs. William,\\n247.\\nDickinson, General Philemon,\\n46, 67.\\nDickinson, John, 27, 121, 124,\\n174.\\nDove, James David, 28.\\nDowning, Jacob, go, gi.\\nDreer, Ferdinand J., 232.\\nDrexel, Francis Martin, comes\\nto Philadelphia, 332 paints\\nportraits, 232 banker, 233.\\nDrexel, Mrs. Francis Martin,\\nminiature of, 233.\\nDrinker, Elizabeth, diary of, 82,\\nX13, 130, 131 marriage of\\ndaughters, 88, gi on French\\nminister s ball, 120, 126 on por-\\ntraits, 210, 211.\\nDrinker, Henry S., 72, 113; op-\\nposed to portraits, 210, 211.\\nDrinker, Molly, elopes, 88.\\nDrinker, Sally (Mrs. Jacob\\nDowning), gi.\\nDuch^, Rev. Jacob, 83.\\nDuer, Colonel William, 64, 66.\\nDuer, Lady Catherine, at Mrs.\\nWashington s drawing-room,\\n53; entertainments of, 63, 65,\\n66 marriage of, 64.\\nDulles, Joseph, 228.\\nDulles, Mary, 228.\\nDumas, Cuillaume Matthieu, lag.\\n130.\\nDundas, James, 247, 263.\\nDundas, Mrs. James, 247.\\nDu Ponceau, Peter, 166, 247, 248.\\nDu Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Charles\\nIrenSe, portrait of, 227.\\nDu Pont, Victor, 227.\\nE\\nEllicott, Andrew, succeeds L En-\\nfant, 177.\\nEllsworth, Oliver, 42, 103.\\nEmlen, George, 85, 8g, 143.\\nEmlen, Nancy, 87.\\nEmlen, Sally, gi.\\nEppes, John, 156.\\nEppes, Mrs. John, igi.\\nErskine, David Montague (Lord\\nErskine), marriage, 153, igg\\nBritish Minister, 193, 195, 196\\nfamily of, 197, 198.\\nErskine, Jane (Mrs. J. H. Gal-\\nlander), igS.\\nErskine, Lady, marriage, 153,\\n199 returns to America, 195,\\n196 daughters of, 197-igg.\\nErskine, Mary (Baroness Taut-\\nphoeus), ig8.\\nEvans, Rev. Nathaniel, 22, 24.\\nEve, Captain Oswald, 31.\\nEve, Sarah, 31 diary of, 32, 33;\\nengaged to Dr. Benjamin Rush,\\n33, 34.\\nEve, Sarah (Mrs. Adams), 33.\\nEyre, Manuel, 72.\\nFauchet,M. Jean Antoine Joseph,\\n65-\\nFeke, Robert, 30, 211.\\nFerguson, Elizabeth, literary\\ncircle of, 13, 14, 20, 24, 30, 121\\nliterary work, 15, 16, 22; book-\\nplate, 17 visits Great Britain,\\n17, 18, ig; diary, i3, 31; mar-\\n276", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0368.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nriage, 21 political complica-\\ntions, 22, 23 last years, 24.\\nFerguson, Henry Hugh, 21, 22,\\nField, Robert, artist, 231.\\nFisher, Dr. Henry M., 141.\\nFisher, Joshua Francis, 15.\\nFisher, Miers, 82, 83, 85.\\nFisher, Mrs. Miers, 85.\\nFitzsimons, Thomas, 47, 68, 136.\\nFleury, Major, 164.\\nFothergill, Dr. John, 17, 18.\\nFrancis, Mrs. Willing, 232.\\nFrancis, Tench, 25, 27, 99, 117, 213.\\nFranklin, Dr. Benjamin, ingen-\\nious friends, 24 founds College\\nof Philadelphia, 26 various\\ntalents of, 28, 29, 132 at\\nStenton, 166.\\nFranklin, ^Valter, New York\\nhouse of, 47, 48.\\nFranks, Abigail, 105.\\nFranks, Colonel Isaac, 116.\\nFranks, Rebecca, 118, 119.\\nFraser, Charles, artist, 234.\\nFurness, Dr. Horace Howard,\\n230.\\nFurness, Dr. William H., 250,\\nGallatin, Albert, 193, 206.\\nGalloway, Jane (Mrs. Joseph\\nShippen), 29.\\nGenet, Edmond Charles, French\\nMinister, 65, 114, 165,\\nGermantown, Washington s resi-\\ndence in, 114-H7 refuge during\\nyellow-fever, 114-117, 167, 168.\\nGerry, Elbridge, 45.\\nGilpin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D.,\\n264.\\nGilpin, Thomas, 82.\\nGirard, Stephen, house of, 72,\\n244 care of yellow-fever pa-\\ntients, 170, 171.\\nGliddon, George R., 254, 258.\\nGodfrey, Thomas, poet, 32, 79.\\nGoodrich, Chauncey, 62, 103.\\nGoodrich, Mrs. Chauncey (Ma-\\nrianne Wolcott), 61, 62.\\nGouverneur, Mrs. Samuel L.\\n(Maria Monroe), 207.\\nGraeme, Dr. Thomas (father of\\nMrs. Ferguson), 14, 17, 20.\\nGraeme, Elizabeth (see Elizabeth\\nFerguson), 13.\\nGraeme, Mrs. Thomas, 14, 15, 18,\\n19.\\nGraeme Park, 13, 14.\\nGray s Gardens, 107, 108,\\nGreen, Rev. Ashbel, 78, log.\\nGreene, Mrs. Nathaniel, 56, 57.\\nGreene, Nathaniel, Quartermas-\\nter-General, 57, 58, 99.\\nGreenleaf, James, 176.\\nGriffin, Lady Christiana, 64.\\nGriffitts, Dr. Samuel P., 170.\\nGriswold, Rufus W., 48, 103.\\nGuest, Betsy, 32.\\nH\\nHabersham, Colonel Joseph, 59.\\nHale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha, 265.\\nHall, Charles, miniatures of, 213,\\n214.\\nHall, Susan, 123.\\nHallett, Stephen L., architect of\\nthe Capitol, 178.\\nHamilton, Alexander, Secretary\\nof the Treasury, 35, 43, 44 ad-\\nvice on etiquette, 35-37, 39 New\\nYork residence, 49; favorite of\\nWashington, 54 resigns from\\nTreasury, 63 in Philadelphia,\\n76, 103, 114, 116, 149, 155, 159.\\nHamilton, Andrew, 105.\\nHamilton, Ann (Mrs. James\\nLyle), 105.\\nHamilton, Governor James, 17,\\n25-\\nHamilton, Mrs. Alexander, draw-\\ning-room of, 53, 54.\\nHamilton, William, 142, 167, 212.\\nHeadley, J. T., 198.\\nHeatley, Sophia, 228.\\n277", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0369.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nHelm, Peter, aids yellow-fever\\npatients, 170, 171.\\nHenri, Pierre, artist, 211.\\nHenry, Judge William, 17.\\nHesselius, Gustavus, 311, 277.\\nHesselius, John, 211.\\nHiltzheimer, Jacob, 120.\\nHoban, James, 178.\\nHopkinson, Francis, poet and\\nsatirist, 14, 24 wit of, 102, 103,\\n249.\\nHopkinson, Joseph, author of\\nHail Columbia, 103, 149.\\nHopkinson, Mrs. Joseph, 149, 345.\\nHopkinson, Mrs. Oliver, 263.\\nHopkinson, Mrs. Thomas, 29, 30.\\nHopkinson, Thomas, 212.\\nHoward, General John K., 99, 174,\\n225.\\nHoward, Mrs. John E., 225.\\nHowe, General Sir William, 23,\\n85, 95.\\nHowell, Sydney, 93.\\nHumphreys, Colonel David, 79.\\nHuntington, Benjamin, 43.\\nHuntington, Daniel, paints Re-\\npublican Court, 40, 43, 53, 58,\\n59-\\nHutchinson, Dr. James, mar-\\nriage, 93 attends yellow-fever\\npatients, 113, 114; death, 170.\\nIngersoll, Charles J., 344.\\nIngersoU, Hon. Jared, 75, 79.\\nInglis, John, 26.\\nInglis, Samuel, 136.\\nInman, Henry, 2H.\\nIredell, Judge James, 43, 76,\\nIrving, Washington, 164, 192,254.\\nIturbide, Josephine, friend of\\nMrs. Rush, 252.\\nIzard, Mrs. Ralph, 53.\\nIzard, Ralph, 133.\\nJackson, Francis James, British\\nMinister, 179, 197.\\nJackson, Major William, 40, 144,\\n155.\\nJackson, Mrs. Simon, 160.\\nJackson, Mrs. William, 144, 155.\\nJames, Phoebe (Mrs. Saunders\\nLewis), 259.\\nJarvis, John Wesley, 211.\\nJaudenes, Don Jose, Spanish\\nMinister, 223.\\nJaudon, Samuel, 249.\\nJay, John, Chief Justice, 35, 43\\nmarriage, 146; in Philadelphia,\\n149.\\nJay, Mrs. John, at Mrs. Washing-\\nton s receptions, 53 drawing-\\nroom of, 63 attractions of, 63,\\n64, 149.\\nJefferson, Maria (Mrs. John\\nEppes), 59, 108, 156.\\nJefferson, Martha (Mrs. T. M.\\nRandolph), 58.\\nJefferson, Thomas, opinion on\\netiquette, 37, 38 salary of, 41\\nSecretary of State, 43, 49 ap-\\npearance of, 44, 188 New York\\nresidence, 48 family of, 58, 59\\nPhiladelphia residence, 108\\nPhiladelphia friends, log, 149;\\nopinion of Rittenhouse, no,\\nIII account of yellow-fever,\\n113; in Germantown, 115, 116;\\nletter to Mrs. Bingham, 147,\\n148 at Stenton, 162, 164, 165\\ninterest in Federal City, 172,\\ni73i 177; criticized by Mrs.\\nAdams, 183 elected President\\nof the United States, 185, 187\\ncabinet of, 193, 194; informality\\nof administration, 188-191, 202.\\nJenifer, Daniel, 163.\\nJohnson, Governor Nathaniel, of\\nCarolina, 329, 330.\\nJuliana Library, of Lancaster,\\n17, 18.J\\nK\\nKeith, Charles P., 84.\\nKeith, Sir William, 14.\\n278", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0370.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nKemble, Frances Anne (Mrs.\\nPierce Butler), 152, 227, 250, 261\\ncharming story of, 248.\\nKey, Francis Scott, and Star\\nSpangled Banner, 187.\\nKing, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus, 44, 45.\\nKing, William, Governor of\\nMaine, 45.\\nKnox, General Henry, appear-\\nance of, 44 Secretary of War,\\n45, 49 in New York, 56 in\\nPhiladelphia, 114, 155 in Ger-\\nmantown, 117, 225.\\nKnox, Mrs. Henry, 56, 57, 104.\\nKosciusko, Thaddeus, at Stenton,\\n166.\\nLafayette, Marquis de, in Amer-\\nica, 100, 130, 133 at Du Pont\\nwedding, 227.\\nLafayette, Marquise de, 63.\\nLangdon, Colonel and Mrs. John,\\n127.\\nLansdowne, Marquess of, friend\\nof the Binghams, 138 portrait\\nof Washington painted for, 139,\\n140, 223 estimate of Washing-\\nton, 140.\\nLansdowne, owned by John\\nPenn, 120; by Binghams, 138,\\n141.\\nLaw, Mrs. Thomas, marriage,\\n174, 201 portrait by Stuart, 201,\\n225.\\nLaw, Thomas, builds in Wash-\\nington, 174, 175; marries Miss\\nCustis, 201 characteristics, 202.\\nLear, Tobias, private secretary\\nto AVashington, 40, 96, 114,\\nLee, Arthur, 133.\\nLee, General Henry, 225.\\nLeeds, Duchess of (Miss Caton),\\n60.\\nLeidy, Dr. Joseph, 257, 258.\\nL Enfant, Pierre Charles, plan\\nfor Washington City, 172, 176-\\n178 beauty of design, 177, 179.\\nLeslie, Eliza, authoress, 265.\\nLewis, Mrs. Lawrence, 156, 182,\\n201, 225.\\nLewis, William D., 247.\\nLiancourt, 78 (see Due de la\\nRochefoucauld).\\nLincoln, General Benjamin, 124,\\n155.\\nLippincott, Mrs. Joshua, 263.\\nListon, Lady, 154, 197, 225.\\nListon, Sir Robert, British Min-\\nister, 154, 197, 225.\\nLivingston, Eugene, 264.\\nLivingston, Henry Beekman, 133.\\nLivingston, Hon. and Mrs. Ed-\\nward, 261.\\nLivingston, Governor William,\\n63.\\nLivingston, Mrs. Robert R., 53,\\n99-\\nLivingston, Mrs. Walter, 53.\\nLivingston, Robert R,, Chan-\\ncellor, 43.\\nLloyd, Colonel Edward 111., of\\nMaryland, 186.\\nLloyd, Governor Thomas, 27,\\n153-\\nLloyd, Hannah, 89.\\nLloyd, Rebecca (Mrs. Joseph H.\\nNicholson), 186.\\nLogan, Dr. George, visited by\\nWashington, 84, 162, 163 friend\\nof Jefferson, 164, 165; guests at\\nStenton, 165-167.\\nLogan, Hannah, 88.\\nLogan, James, secretary to Will-\\niam Penn, 25-27, 88 builds\\nStenton, 162.\\nLogan, Mrs. George, admires\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Washington, 82, 162, 163 social\\ncharm, 163-165 guests at Sten-\\nton, 165-168.\\nLudlow, Mrs. Israel, 107.\\nLuzerne, Chevalier de la, French\\nMinister to United States, 120,\\n130, 134, 153 gives ball on birth\\nof Dauphin, 121-127.\\nLyle, James, 79, 105.\\n279", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0371.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nLyle, Mrs. James (Ann Hamil- McHenry, James, Secretary of\\nton), 105, 141, iSi.\\nM\\nMaclay, William, criticizes eti-\\nquette in New York, 37-39 on\\nsalaries, 41 admires Washing-\\nton, 42 caustic remarks, 43, 47,\\n188 on moving capital, 68-70,\\nMacomb, Alexander, 49, 52.\\nMacomb, Mrs, Alexander, 199,\\nMadison, James, in Philadelphia,\\n149 interested in Federal City,\\n^73, 174 Secretary of State, 191,\\n193 President of United States,\\n203 criticized in War of 1812,\\n204, 206.\\nMadison, Mrs. James, in Phila-\\ndelphia, 107, 149; in Washing-\\nton, igo, 199 attractions of,\\n191 drawing-room, 192, 193,\\n203, 204, 206, 207 courage dur-\\ning War of 1812, 205 last days,\\n205, 209.\\nMakin, Thomas, 28.\\nMalbone, Edward Greene, in\\nPhiladelphia, 211, 213, 228 min-\\niatures by, 230, 234.\\nMansion House, 144.\\nMarbois, 3.x\\\\i\u00e2\u0082\u00ac, charge d affaires,\\n75. 134 marries Miss Moore,\\n153-\\nMarkoe, Peter, satires of, 137, 143,\\n144.\\nMarshall, Chief Justice, 97, 193,\\n206.\\nMarshall, Humphrey, 164.\\nMarshall, Mr. and Mrs. James,\\n97.\\nMartineau, Harriet, in Philadel-\\nphia, 250.\\nMason, James M., 208, 262.\\nMason, Mrs. James M. (Miss\\nEliza Chew), 207, 208, 262.\\nMasters, Polly (Mrs. Richard\\nPenn), 95.\\nMcCall, Archibald, 76.\\nMcClenachan, Blair, 117.\\nWar, 76.\\nMcKean, Governor Thomas, 76,\\n103, 154. 194-\\nMcKean, Mr. and Mrs. Henry\\nPratt, 256, 257.\\nMcKean, Sally, 103 (see Mar\\nchioness Yrujo).\\nMcTavish, British Consul, 60.\\nMeade, General George G., 346.\\nMeade, George, 136.\\nMeade, Mrs. Richard Worsam,\\n227.\\nMercer, General Hugh, 215.\\nMeredith, Margaret, ig6.\\nMeredith, Mrs. Samuel, 98, 132.\\nMeredith, Reese, 97.\\nMeredith, Samuel, Treasurer of\\nthe United States, 46, 97, 98;\\nentertains Chastellux, 132\\nfinancial aid during Revolu-\\ntion, 136, 137.\\nMerry, Anthony, British Minis-\\nter in Washington, 190, 191.\\nMerry, Mrs. Anthony, 191.\\nMifflin, Governor Thomas, 75,\\n125-\\nMiles, Edward, 211.\\nMitchell, Dr. S. W^eir, 13.\\nMonges, Cora (Mrs. Charles\\nDutilh), 245.\\nMonges, Dr., 244.\\nMonroe, James, in Germantown,\\n115, 116; American Minister in\\nLondon, 191, 193; President of\\nthe United States, 207.\\nMonroe, Mrs. James, in Wash-\\nington, 199, 207,\\nMontgomery, Mr. and Mrs. John\\nC, miniatures of, 232.\\nMontgomery, Mrs. Richard, 57,\\n58.\\nMontpensier, Due de, in Phila-\\ndelphia, 158.\\nMoore, Elizabeth, marries Barbtf-\\nMarbois, 153.\\nMoreau, General John Victor, in\\nPhiladelphia, 160.\\n280", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0372.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nMoreau, Madame, in Philadel-\\nphia, i6o, i6i.\\nMorgan, Colonel George, 13a.\\nMorris, Cadwalader, 136.\\nMorris, Elliston Perot, 116.\\nMorris, Gouverneur, 136, 179.\\nMorris, Hetty (Mrs. James Mar-\\nshall), portrait, 97.\\nMorris, Lewis, of Morrisania,\\nN. Y., 260.\\nMorris, Maria (Mrs, Henry\\nNixon), portrait, 97.\\nMorris, Mr. and Mrs. George W.,\\nMr. Drexel s portraits of, 232.\\nMorris, Mrs. Robert, in New\\nYork, 52 friend of Mrs. Wash-\\nington, 96 social leader, 130\\nat Miss Willing s wedding, 155.\\nMorris, Robert, financier of Re-\\nvolution, 43, 130, 135, 136 on\\nchoice of capital, 67-69 great\\nmerchant, 72, 136 receives por-\\ntraits of French king and\\nqueen, 75 in Philadelphia, 79,\\n134 houses of, 95, 96, 131\\nfriend of Washington, 96 in-\\nvests in ^Vashington lots, 176.\\nMorris, Samuel, Captain of City\\nTroop, 116.\\nMott, Dr. Valentine, 264.\\nMurray, Charles Augustus, 264.\\nMurray, Mrs. Charles Augustus\\n(Elizabeth Wadsworth), por-\\ntrait, 363, 264 marriage, 264.\\nN\\nNagle, John, 140.\\nNapoleon, Louis, marries Char-\\nlotte Bonaparte, 245.\\nNemours, Dupont de, at Stenton,\\nj66.\\nNew York, the seat of govern-\\nment, 35-48; social life in, 48-\\n66 removal of government\\nfrom, 66-69.\\nNicholson, John, 176.\\nNicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph,\\nX85-187.\\n28\\nNicklin, Mrs. Philip, 161, i6a,\\n225.\\nNoailles, Vicomte de, in Philadel-\\nphia, 129, 133, 149, 152, 155, 158,\\n225; founds Asylum, 146;\\ndescribed, 159.\\nNorris Deborah (Mrs, Geo. Lo-\\ngan), 163, 164.\\nNorris, Mary Parker, 163,\\nNuttall, Thomas, 167,\\nOrleans, Duke of, in Philadel-\\nphia, 155, 158, 225 addresses\\nMiss W^illing, 155-156.\\nOsgood, Mrs. Samuel, New York\\nresidence of, 47, 49.\\nOsgood, Samuel, 47, 49, 65, 136.\\nOtis, James, Secretary of State,\\n75-\\nOtis, Mrs. James, 105.\\nOtto, Louis Guillaume, 134.\\nPalmer, Mr, and Mrs, William,\\nParkers, at Perot \\\\vedding, 91,\\n92.\\nPatterson, Mrs. Robert, 60.\\nPayne, Lucy (Mrs, Washington),\\n191, 192,\\nPeale, Angelica (Mrs. Alexander\\nRobinson), 214.\\nPeale, Charles Willson, portraits\\nofi 59 234; museum of, 80; in\\nPhiladelphia, 211-213; minia-\\ntures, 214.\\nPeale, James, miniatures of, 2x1,\\n213.\\nPeale, Rembrandt, plan for\\nAcademy of Fine Arts, 2x3.\\nPemberton, James, 85, 88, 89.\\nPendleton, Henry, Chief-Justice\\nof Carolina, 130.\\nPenn, Hon. Thomas, 17, 18,\\nPenn, Gov. John, arrives in\\nPennsylvania, 32, 83 coach of,\\n8s marriage, 94, 120 appear-\\nZ", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0373.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nance, 95 owns Lansdowne,\\n343.\\nPenn, Lady Juliana, endows\\nlibrary in Lancaster, 17, 18.\\nPenn, Richard, 95.\\nPenn, William, proprietary, 25.\\nPerot, Elliston, residence of, 73\\nwedding, 89-93.\\nPerot, John, 73.\\nPeter, Mrs. Thomas, 174, 201.\\nPeter, Thomas, 174.\\nPeters, Judge Richard, country\\nseat, 99 friend of Washington,\\n116 wit and humor, loi, 149,\\n349; in England, 102.\\nPeters, Mrs. Richard (Sally\\nRobinson), 102.\\nPeters, Mr. and Mrs. Richard,\\nJr., 156.\\nPeters, Rev. Richard, rector of\\nChrist Church and St. Peter s,\\nPhiladelphia, 16, 17, 35, 27.\\nPettit, Charles, 99.\\nPhilips, Mr. and Mrs. Henry,\\nportraits of, 225.\\nPhiladelphia, social and religious\\ncharacteristics, 25-26, 29, 30, 81\\nintellectual life, 36-28, 109-113\\nleading merchants, 71-73 seat\\nof government, 70, 74-77, 96-99\\ntheatres in, 78-81, 150-153\\nQuaker life, 84-95 social life,\\n101-108, 118-127, 129-135, 140-146,\\n153-162, 335-271; yellow-fever in,\\n113-117, 168-171 an early art\\ncentre, 310-228, 231-233.\\nPhilosophical Society, 109, XI3,\\n167.\\nPhysick, Philip Syng, M.D., 170.\\nPickering, Timothy, 75.\\nPtnckney, Charles C, 46.\\nPleasants, Dr. Samuel, 170.\\nPlumsted, Mrs. William, 29.\\nPowel, Mrs. Samuel, 134, 135, 181.\\nPowel, Samuel, 95, 99, 134.\\nPoyntell, William, 212.\\nPratt, Henry, portrait by Stuart,\\n72.\\nPratt, Matthew, artist, 72, 311.\\nPreble, George Henry, no.\\nPriestley, Dr. Joseph, 112.\\nPrime, Rufus, 51.\\nR\\nRandolph, Edmund, Attorney-\\nGeneral, 43.\\nRandolph, John of Roanoke, 166.\\nRandolph, Mrs. Thomas Mann,\\n108, 191.\\nRawle, Mrs. William, 157.\\nRawle, William, 116.\\nRedman, Dr. John, 79, 169, 170.\\nReed, General Joseph, 23, 125.\\nReed, Mrs. Joseph, 131.\\nReynolds, Sir Joshua, 216, 317,\\n21S.\\nRhett, Colonel William, 229, 230.\\nRhoads, Samuel, 83.\\nRidgely, Ann (Mrs. C. I. du Pont),\\n227.\\nRidgely, Henry M., 327.\\nRidgway, Jacob, 72, 236, 271.\\nRidgway, John Jacob, 237, 259.\\nRidgway Library, 271.\\nRidgway, Phoebe Ann (see Mrs.\\nJames Rush),\\nRidgway, Susan, portrait of\\n(Mrs. Rhea Barton), 237.\\nRittenhouse, David, first Ameri-\\ncan astronomer, no, 210, 251\\nOrrery of, in draws Mason\\nand Dixon s line, 113.\\nRoberts, George, describes John\\nPenn, 95.\\nRobinson, Mr. and Mrs. Mon-\\ncure, 247.\\nRobinson, Mrs. Alexander, min-\\niatures of, 214.\\nRochambeau, Marquis of, 100,\\n5-\\nRochefoucauld- Liancourt, de-\\nscribes social life in America,\\n77) 78, 94; in Philadelphia, 117,\\n149, 158.\\nRoosevelt, Isaac, 48.\\nRoss, John, 30, 136.\\n282", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0374.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nRotch, Mrs. Thomas (Susan\\nRidgway), 251.\\nRumsey, Colonel Charles, igg.\\nRush, Dr. Benjamin, eminent\\nphysician and writer, 15, 20, 24,\\n75, log, igg describes Miss\\nGraeme s life abroad, 17-ig\\nwrites of her salon, 20-22, 30\\nengaged to Sarah Eve, 32-34\\nmarries Miss Stockton, 34 de-\\nscribes ball on Dauphin s birth-\\nday, 121-127; treatment of yel-\\nlow-fever, 168, 170 sons of, 238.\\nRush, Betsy, 32.\\nRush, Dr. James, parentage, 238\\ncharacter and attainments, 238,\\n239. 255 Philadelphia resi-\\ndences, 243, 255-257 records\\ndates of entertainments, 245,\\n246; friends of, 248, 257, 262;\\ntravels abroad, 254, 259 later\\nyears, 271.\\nRush, Hon. Richard, 238.\\nRush, Mrs. Benjamin, 34, 123,\\nRush, Mrs. James, salon of, 235,\\n240, 271 character and tastes,\\n236, 238-240, 250-254; early years,\\n237, 238 criticised, 238, 252\\nstudies, 239-241, 243 appear-\\nance, 241, 251, 25g entertain-\\nments, 245, 246, 259-261, 266-268\\nPhiladelphia residences, 247,\\n49, 255i 256 friends, 248, 257,\\n263, 264 strangers introduced\\nto, 249-250 position abroad,\\n254. 255 new home on Chest-\\nnut Street, 256, 257 pleasant\\ntraits, 262 rules for entertain-\\ning, 265, 26S affair of the dia-\\nmonds, 268-270; death, 271;\\nfounds Ridgway Library, 271.\\nRush, V^illiam, sculptor, 212.\\nSaint Memin, Charles B. J. F.,\\nartist, 33.\\nSalon, the first in America, 13,\\n14, 19-22, 24, 30 in New York,\\n40, 46, 47, 52-58, 63 in Philadel-\\nphia, 103, 108, iig, 120, 132-135,\\n146, 149, 150, 163-167, 235-271 in\\nWashington, 183-185, 188, 189,\\n191-193, 202-204, 208, 20g.\\nSansom, Miss (Mrs. Elliston\\nPerot), wedding described, 89-93.\\nSansom, Joseph, spills wine at\\nwedding, go.\\nSartain, John, artist, 211.\\nSavery, William, 89.\\nSchuyler, Betsy (Mrs. A. Hamil-\\nton), 53.\\nSchuyler, Catherine, 55, 56.\\nSchuyler, General Philip, Sena-\\ntor from New York, 45 attack\\non house, 55 on site for capi-\\ntal, 67.\\nSchuyler, Margaret, heroism of,\\n55-\\nSchuyler, Mrs. Philip, patriotism,\\n23 courage, 54-56.\\nSchweinitz, Rev. Louis de, 167.\\nScott, General Winfield, 206.\\nSeaton, Mrs. William, 199; de-\\nscribes society in Washington,\\n203, 204, 207.\\nSedgwick, Theodore, 49.\\nSergeant, Hon. John, 215, 248.\\nSergeant, Jonathan Dickinson,\\n213, 214.\\nSergeant, Mrs. John, 248.\\nSergeant, Margaret (Mrs. Geo.\\nG. Meade), 246.\\nSergeant, Mrs. Jonathan D.\\n(Margaret Spencer), miniature\\nof, 214 in Princeton, 215.\\nSergeant, William, miniature of,\\n213.\\nSharpies, James, 83.\\nShippen, Anne Hume (Mrs.\\nHenry B. Livingston), 99.\\nShippen, Dr. William, 99, 133.\\nShippen, Dr. William, the elder,\\n25-\\nShippen, Edward, 17.\\nShippen, Elizabeth, 145.\\nShippen, Joseph, 212.\\n283", "height": "2964", "width": "1737", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0375.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nShippen, Margaret (Mrs. Bene-\\ndict Arnold), iig.\\nShippen, Mrs. Joseph, 29, 30.\\nShippen, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas,\\n5-\\nShippen, Sarah, iig, 236.\\nShoemaker, Mrs. Samuel, on\\nPhiladelphia during Revolu-\\ntion, iig, 120.\\nShoemaker, Samuel, loyalist, 83,\\n119.\\nSmith, General S., of Maryland,\\n220.\\nSmith, John, marries Hannah\\nLogan, 88, 89.\\nSmith, Rev. William, provost of\\nCollege of Philadelphia, 109, 127.\\nSmith, Mrs. William S., 45, 56.\\nSmith, William, writes ode to\\nDauphin, 127.\\nSmith, William S., 45.\\nSowle, Andrew, 29.\\nSpencer, Rev. Elihu, 214, 215.\\nSterling, Earl of, W^illiam Alex-\\nander, 66.\\nSterne, Laurence, English au-\\nthor, 19.\\nStevens, John, of Hoboken, 220.\\nSteuben, Baron, 164, 166.\\nStewart, General W^alter, 79, 117.\\nStockton, Julia (Mrs. Benjamin\\nRush), 34.\\nStockton, Mrs. Richard, 13, 23.\\nStockton, Richard, 244.\\nStockton, Susannah (Mrs. Lewis\\nPintard), 123.\\nStrettell, Robert, 26.\\nStuart, Gilbert, portraits by, 97,\\n201, 213, 234 in Philadelphia,\\n211, 221 \\\\Vashington portraits,\\n140, 221-226 in Germantown,\\n224-226.\\nStuart, Jane, 225.\\nSully, Thomas, in Philadelphia,\\n211,326; portraits by, 227, 234,\\n264.\\nSurvilliers, Comte de, 243 (see\\nJoseph Bonaparte).\\nTalleyrand, Perigord, 149, 158.\\nTautphceus, Baroness, author of\\nInitials, 198.\\nTayloe, Colonel John, builds\\nOctagon House, 206.\\nTemple, Augusta (Mrs. William\\nPalmer), 50-53.\\nTemple, Grenville, 51, 52.\\nTemple, Lady, in New York, 49,\\n64 appearance, 49, 50 por-\\ntraits of, 51, 53 in Boston, 129.\\nTemple, Sir John, British Con.\\nsul. New York residence of, 49\\ninherits title, 51 portrait of,\\n52-\\nTemple, Sir Thomas, Governor\\nof Nova Scotia, 51.\\nTemple, Rev. Thomas, 51.\\nTernant, Chevalier de, 164.\\nThomson, Charles, 27, no.\\nThornton, Dr. William, draws\\nplan- for Capitol, 177, 178.\\nTiffany, George, 254.\\nTilghman, Chief-Justice William,\\n121.\\nTilghman, Edward, 79, 116,\\nTilly, Count de, 152, 153.\\nTilly, Countess de (Maria Bing\\nham), 153.\\nTodd, Charles Burr, 178.\\nTracy, John, of Newburyport,\\n128.\\nTrott, Benjamin F., artist, 211,\\n234-\\nTrumbull, John, artist, 52.\\nTrumbull, Jonathan, 49.\\nTurner, Joseph, 26.\\nTwining, Thomas, describes life\\nin Philadelphia, 77, 96, 112, 152,\\n153 in Washington, 174, 175\\nminiature of, 331.\\nUniversity of Pennsylvania,\\nfounding of, 36, 37.\\n284", "height": "3001", "width": "1674", "jp2-path": "salonscolonialre00whar_0376.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nVan Braam, owns China Hall,\\n331.\\nVan Buren, President, at Mrs.\\nRush s, 350.\\nVan Dyke, Dorcas M., wedding\\nof, 337.\\nVan Dyke, Senator from Dela-\\nware, 337.\\nVan Ness, Ann Elbertina, 307.\\nVan Rensselaer, Euphemia, 364.\\nVan Rensselaer, Jeremiah, 47.\\nVan Rensselaer, Stephen, 55.\\nVaudreuil, Marquis de, 128, isg.\\nVaughan, John, log, 166.\\nVaux, Richard, 8g.\\nVolney, Constantin Francois, 149,\\n153. 154. 158.\\nW\\nWadsworth, Elizabeth (Mrs. C.\\nA. Murray), 263.\\nWadsworth, General James S.,\\n263.\\nWadsworth, Jeremiah, 49.\\nWadsworth, Mrs. James S.\\n(Mary Wharton), portrait of,\\n259, 260, 263.\\nWalker, Lewis Burd, 145.\\nWallace, Mrs. John Bradford,\\n161, 168.\\nWallace, Mrs. John William, 261.\\nWalsh, Hon. Robert, 354.\\nWansey, Henry, diary of, 40, 77,\\n78, 79. 145-\\nWarder, John, 86.\\nWarder, Mrs. John, diary of, 77,\\n143 describes Philadelphia\\nQuakers, 85-87 describes wed-\\nding of Elliston Perot, 89-92\\nremarks on marriage, 93, 94.\\nWarren, Mrs. James, 13, 33.\\nWarville, Brissot de, describes\\nthe Hamiltons, 53, 54 on Phila-\\ndelphia life, 77, 85.\\nWashington City, laying out of\\nStreets, 172-179 described by\\nvisitors, 179-185 social and of-\\nficial life in, 187-309.\\nWashington, George, President\\nof United States, 35, 42, 61, 197,\\n309 etiquette of administra-\\ntion, 35-40 salary, 41 cabinet,\\n43-45 New York residences,\\n48-49, 53, 53 social life in New\\nYork, 54, 57, 65 in New Jersey,\\n64; in Philadelphia, 73, 74,81,\\n83 attends theatre and circus,\\n79,80, 105; visits Stenton, 84,\\n162, 163 Philadelphia resi-\\ndence, 95, 96 Philadelphia\\nfriends, 97-101, 146, 155 birth-\\nnight balls, io6-io8, 157 letter\\non seal of United States, no\\nin Germantown, 114-117, 334,\\n335 celebrates birth of Dau-\\nphin, 120, 132, 134 portraits of,\\n140, 331 visited by French\\nprinces, 158 selects site for\\ncapital, 173 interest in plans\\nfor Capitol, 176, 178 Stuart\\npaints portraits, 30i, 305, 331,\\n224-226 Birch makes enamel\\nportraits, 332, 223.\\n^i^ashington, Judge Bushrod, 330.\\nWashington, Mrs. Bushrod, 201.\\nWashington, Martha, in New\\nYork, 35, 39, 65, 85 drawing-\\nrooms in New York, 40, 46, 47,\\n56, 58; 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