[89] Ellet’s Court Circles of the Republic, 226.
[90] A poet describing one of the Adams parties referred to “Forsyth with her group of graces”—her beautiful daughters.
[91] Retrospect of Forty Years, 60.
[92] Quincy, in Figures of the Past, was thus impressed, particularly with the daughter of Calhoun.
[93] These descriptions of Miss Martineau’s are in harmony with those that sprinkle the pages of Mrs. Smith’s work.
[94] Mrs. Smith’s First Forty Years, Miss Martineau’s Retrospect of Western Travel, and Adams’s Diary all indicate a gossipy city.
[95] Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 152.
[96] The original from “Alphonse” in possession of Waddy Wood, Washington, D.C.
[97] This, too, in the possession of Waddy Wood.
[98] Court Circles of the Republic, 180.