"Your countrywoman, Mrs. Wolcott," said the minister from England, admiring the beauty of the Connecticut statesman's wife, to an official of the young government in the days when its capital was located in New York, "would be admired even at St. James." "Sir," replied the American, "she is admired even on Litchfield Hill." INDEX A Adams, Hannah, 150 Adams, John, 22 Adams, John Quincy, 74 Adams, Mrs. John, 14 Alabama, story of, 105 Albany, Duke of, 202 Allen, James Lane, 148 Alston, Joseph, 30, 38 Alston, Mrs. Joseph. See Theodosia Burr American Graces, 62, 66 Amory, William, 97 André, Major, 191 Ariosto, 116 Armstrong, General, 50 Armstrong, Vene P., 159 Astor, Mrs., 111 Atlantic Transport Company, 255 August, Tom, 179 Ayot, Alexis, 145 B Bache, Mrs. Richard, 193 Bache, Richard, 193 Baily, Dr. Gamaliel, 214 Baker, Mrs. George W., 171 Baltimore, city of, 39 Bard, Dr., 29 Barney, Commodore, 44 Barton, Dr. Benjamin, 87 Barton, Mrs. Thomas Pennant. See Cora Livingston Barton, Thomas Pennant, 87 Bateman, Abraham, 254 Bayard, Hon. Thomas F., 271 Beaconsfield, Lord, 248 Beale, General, 88 Beauregard, General, 234 "Beauvoir," 275 Bellefontaine Cemetery, 263 Bentham, Jeremy, 19 Benton, Jessie, 123 Benton, Thomas Hart, 123, 125, 126 Bernhardt, Sarah, 200 Bingham, Mrs. William, 192 Bingham, William, 192 Bladensburg duel, 85 Blaine, James G., 268 Blenheim Palace, 244 Blennerhassett, 34 Bodisco, Baron, 127 Bolin, Lieutenant-Governor, 92 Bonaparte, Jerome, 28, 43, 44, 64 Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon, 53, 59 Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon, 59 Bonaparte, Madame Jerome, 39, 67. See Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Napoleon, 42, 43, 48, 51, 55, 67 Bonaparte, Pauline, 56, 58 Bonsteller, Baron, 57 Borghese, Princess. See Pauline Bonaparte Boston Library, 88 Bourne, Sylvanus, 53 Bradley-Martin, Mrs., 255 Brant, Indian Chief, 29 Brattle, Thomas, 92 Bremer, Frederika, 108, 115 Bright, Mr. John, 247 British Society, 239 Browning, Mrs., 114 Buchanan, James, 161, 164, 167, 170, 174, 181, 232 Burdett-Coutts, Baroness, 253 Burdett-Coutts, Mr., 253 Burns, Davy, 12 Burns, Marcia, 11 Burr, Aaron, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 26, 32 Burr, Madam, 267 Burr, Rev. Aaron, 28 Burr, Theodosia, 18, 48 C Cabell, Lizzie, 230 Calderon, Madame de la Barca, 101 Calhoun, John C., 16 Calhoun, Mrs. John C., 75 Calverts, the, 14 Camber, Miss, 103 "Canonchet," 219 Carlton House Terrace, 276 Carmichael, Ann, 231 Carroll, Charles, 41, 61, 63, 150, 191, 264 Carroll, Daniel, 12, 14 Carroll, John, 61 Carroll, John, Archbishop, 46, 64 Carroll, Kitty, 61 Carroll, Mary, 61 Carucci's, 86 Caton, Elizabeth, 62, 68 Caton, Emily, 62, 68 Caton, Louisa, 62, 65, 68 Caton, Mary, 62, 264 Caton, Richard, 61, 62