| [21] “Maximilian in Mexico” by Sara Y. Stevenson, p. 174. | | | | [22] In 1888 Norway, through Rear Admiral Neils Ihlen, Royal | | Norwegian Navy, sent to Maury’s children the sum of $2180.74 | | which had been intended to be applied to the Testimonial Fund. | | | | [23] The last letter that Maury received from the unfortunate | | Empress enclosed photographs of herself and Maximilian. After | | becoming insane, she was taken to the Château de Bouchout in | | Brabant, Belgium, where she continued to write pathetic love | | letters to her “dearest Maximilian”, whom she did not realize to | | have been dead. Death came to her at the age of eighty-six, on | | January 19, 1927. During the World War, a heavy guard was placed | | around her villa by order of the Kaiser and this placard set | | up: “This villa is the property of Her Majesty the Empress of | | Mexico, sister of His Majesty Francis Joseph, Kaiser of Austria. | | Disturbances in the neighborhood will be punished with the utmost | | severity”. | | | | [24] It has often been stated that the poet Tennyson received | | the LL.D. from Cambridge at this same time. This is incorrect. | | A letter of May 12, 1926, from the Registrary of Cambridge | | University states that on May 28, 1868, the “Degree of LL.D. | | _honoris causa_ was conferred upon: Frederick Max Müller, | | Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford; William Wright, | | Assistant in the Department of MSS., British Museum; and Matthew | | Fontaine Maury of Virginia”. | | | | [25] In 1912 it was revised as “Maury’s New Complete Geography” | | and copyrighted by the American Book Company, and is still on the | | market. | | | | [26] This was the name given to Washington College in 1871 after | | the death of General Lee on October 12, 1870. | | | | [27] The opening stanzas of “Through the Pass” by Margaret J. | | Preston. | | | | [28] Mrs. Maury survived her husband until the year 1901. | | | | [29] Great praise is due Mrs. E. E. Moffitt for founding this | | Maury Association, and successfully raising the money necessary |