[75]. Wife of the Hon. James J. Roosevelt of New York.
[76]. Mr. Calhoun was Secretary of State under President Tyler.
[77]. Wife of Mr. Justice Catron of the Supreme Court of the United States.
[78]. President Tyler’s marriage to Miss Gardiner is the event here alluded to. The letter is without date.
[79]. Mary married George W. Baker, and died in San Francisco in 1855, while Mr. Buchanan was Minister to England. Eskridge died in 1857; James in 1862. Harriet dropped the name of Rebecca after she had grown up, and was always known as Miss Lane, or Miss Harriet Lane.
[80]. In these days of millions, such a fortune, accumulated by a man who had been in public life for about forty years, seems moderate indeed. It will appear, as we draw near the end of Mr. Buchanan’s life, that he did not enrich himself out of the public, and that such fortune as he did accumulate must have been, as Mr. Henry says, the slow increase of means honorably acquired and carefully husbanded. Yet he was not a parsimonious, but, on the contrary, he was a generous man.
[81]. James Buchanan Yates, son of Mr. Buchanan’s sister Maria, who married Dr. Yates, a physician in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
[82]. Mr. Buchanan became Secretary of State under President Polk in March of this year.
[83]. Wife of the Hon. Stephen Pleasonton, for very many years Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Department. He possessed the entire confidence of all administrations.
[84]. James Buchanan Henry: very averse as a boy to a vegetable diet.