Ten Years in Washington / or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield

by Mary Clemmer

Transcriber’s Note

The Table of Contents refers the reader to p. 92 for Chapter IX. The chapter begins on p. 93 and the Table was amended.

President Fillmore’s name was spelled with a single ‘l’ in nearly all appearances.

On p. 298, the author provides a list of Secretaries of the Treasury which mis-names Walter Forward (as Howard) and George Bibb (as Beble). The mistakes are retained but noted. The name of the last Postmaster-General appointed by Washington was also corrupted being Joseph Habersham, rather than Haloshan (p. 395).

Some compound words are hyphenated inconsistently. When the hyphenation occurs on a line break, the hyphen is removed unless there is clear evidence that it should be retained.

Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

[vii.32]	“Poor Hallet[t]” and His Plan	Removed.
[viii.22]	Bust of Koscius[c/k]o	Replaced.
[x.36]	A Well-Regulated [A ]Lady	Removed.
[xv.45]	“She’ll do it Cheaper[]”	Added.
[xx.25]	The Tra[d/g]edy of the Decatur House	Replaced.
[21.27]	but as a Capital he never entered it[.]	Added.
[23.11]	Rhode Island, Newport; Maryland, An[n]apolis;	Inserted.
[27.22]	in the State of Pennsylvania.[”]	Added.
[74.9]	of a suddenly growing city[.]	Added.
[143.6]	every Vice[ /-]President who reigned in the Senate	Replaced.
[147.25]	The gown worn by Judge Mc[C/L]lean still hangs	Replaced.
[109.9]	Bust of Koscius[c/k]o	Replaced.
[123.2]	where we witness a teté-a-teté>	sic> tête-à-tête
[157.19]	to repeat the Unter de[r/n] Lindens	Replaced.
[190.5]	he is a poet after all.[”]	Added.
[203.6]	Mr. John [O/A]gg’s Little “Poem”	Replaced.
[243.17]	“Bare-necked Dowagers[”]	Added.
[256.11]	[“]The Census of Spittoons”	Added.
[256.13]	“More Than Shak[e]speare’s Women”	Inserted.
[273.18]	The President looks decid[ed]ly cooler	Inserted.
[278.18]	A Protest againt “Shams”	Inserted.
[298.30]	Walter [Howard], of Pennsylvania;	sic Forward
[298.31]	George M. [Beble], of Kentucky	sic> Bibb
[302.1]	to succeed Vice[ /-]President Henry Wilson	Replaced.
[334.13]	Such is its acknowle[d]ged value	Inserted.
[364.25]	in the Dead[ /-]Letter Office	Replaced.
[365.13]	for an entire State,[”]	Removed.
[381.1]	Yet there was scar[c]ely a Member	Inserted.
[389.26]	As early as the year [1792]	sic 1692
[393.32]	This experiment brought him in debt £9[0]0	Unclear.
[394.23]	at a salary of $100 per ann[n/u]m	Inverted.
[395.18]	Joseph [Haloshan/Habersham]	Replaced.
[405.22]	amounting to $33,658,740[,/.]27	Replaced.
[406.3]	any sum over $5 is sent by money[ /-]order	Replaced.
[452.12]	[“]On the other side	Added.
[428.21]	within their respective districts[.]	Restored.
[486.16]	Fort Conch[a/o], Texas	Replaced.
[494.5]	for its especial service at Al[la]toona, Ga.	Inserted.
[558.6]	on the river[-]side of the old Burns cottage	Probable.
[502.23]	the central office at Washington.[”]	Added.
[568.23]	and silver shoes.[”]	Removed.
[575.1]	stands jus[t] in front of the old site	Added.
[576.18]	[“]The brother of Lord Ellenborough	Removed.
[578.15]	[“]There he stands, in marble,	Removed.
[588.15]	amid the Wildest Enthusiam	Inserted.
[590.3]	and awoke great enthusiam.	Inserted.