[30] Godfrey T. Vigne, in Six Months in America, thought that “in the distance” Arlington “has the appearance of a superior English country residence.”
[31] The Octagon House still standing and being preserved by the Institute of American Architects.
[32] Men and Manners, 75.
[33] Miss Martineau tells of visits to the museum and the skylight, I, 159.
[34] William H. Seward’s Autobiography, I, 277.
[35] Ibid.
[36] Miss Martineau comments severely upon the levity of the women, I, 180.
[37] Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 179.
[38] Men and Manners, 16.
[39] Ibid., 65.