Both men were the objects of courtesies at the hands of the fashionable element who composed the Federalist society in Richmond. Blennerhassett’s interest in music was immediately rewarded by invitations to meetings of the Harmonic Society. Though at the outset he could not assist in the program because he had no spectacles, he was granted an honorary membership for the length of his stay in town. He found the flutes good, four violins moderately good, and three excellent singers who performed some charming trios by Dr. Calcott, inspired by extracts from Ossian. These were new to Blennerhassett’s ears and, on the whole, he enjoyed himself so much that he stayed listening to the music until midnight. The visitor was more fortunate at a meeting of the society a few nights later. Somebody lent him a pair of spectacles, thus enabling him to read notes and take part in a symphony and also in a quartet by Pleyel; but, he lamented, “with less effect than if I had been provided with my own.” In fact now that Blennerhassett was free, on Sundays when the Court was not sitting and in the evenings, he found many opportunities to enjoy the best Richmond society. He made a special visit to Mrs. Gamble, no doubt to thank her in person for the calf’s foot jelly and butter she had sent him while he was in prison. He found her to be “a most amiable old lady, so fraught with the generous humanity characteristic of her sex, as to suffer not the connections of her daughters ... to prevent her expressing not merely a concern for the general hardships we have suffered, but even to censure the last two days’ proceedings in court.” The “connections” of her daughters were of course Agnes’s husband, Governor Cabell, and Elizabeth’s husband William Wirt who, had it not been for Hay’s _nolle prosequi_, would at that very moment have been using his eloquence to get Blennerhassett hanged. Mrs. William Brockenbrough, too, was among the ladies expressing solicitude for the poor persecuted prisoners. The former mistress of Tuckahoe and present wife of the rising young banker was, observed Blennerhassett, the nearest approximation in Richmond to a _savant bel esprit_. Her reputation for intelligence was, perhaps, somewhat enhanced in Blennerhassett’s estimation by her insistence that she must get a copy of “The Querist” to read. The proud author of that series of articles just then was under the impression that David Robertson, who had done such a fine job of taking notes on the trial in shorthand, was going to give them a longer life by including them in the book he proposed to compile on the trial. In this expectation he proved to be mistaken. “The Querist” articles were not made a part of Robertson’s two classic volumes.