Produced by ellinora, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. THE OLIVIA LETTERS [Illustration: (Publisher colophon)] [Illustration: (with handwritten signature:) Emily Edson Briggs. “Olivia,”] THE OLIVIA LETTERS Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent By EMILY EDSON BRIGGS New York and Washington THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1906 Copyright, 1906, by EMILY EDSON BRIGGS CONTENTS. A TRIBUTE TO ARCHITECTURE, 7 A SOLDIER’S BURIAL, 10 LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY, 14 ADVICE POLITICAL, 18 A PLEA FOR THE NEGRO, 22 AT DRY TORTUGAS, 26 STATE ASSOCIATIONS, 30 BINGHAM AND BUTLER, 34 A WEST END RECEPTION, 37 IN THE ARENA OF THE SENATE, 42 SPEAKER COLFAX, 45 THE HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT, 48 MRS. SENATOR WADE, 52 AT THE PRESIDENT’S LEVEE, 55 MARY CLEMMER AMES, 59 AT THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL, 62 HON. BENJAMIN F. WADE, 66 TWO NOTABLE WOMEN, 69 JUDGE NELSON, 72 A FAITHFUL SERVANT, 75 JOHN A. BINGHAM, 79 ANSON BURLINGAME, 82 A TALENTED QUARTETTE, 85 THE DRAGONS OF THE LOBBY, 91 PRESIDENT GRANT’S INAUGURAL, 95 PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S FAMILY, 100 SENATORIAL PEN PICTURES, 105 SENATOR SPRAGUE, 112 SEALED SISTERS OF MORMONISM, 117 AWAITING AUDIENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, 121 JOHN M. BARCLAY, 126 WOMAN SUFFRAGE, 130 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 136 ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, 143 GATHERING OF THE STRONG-MINDED, 148