 | Anne Newport Royall - 1829 - 312 str.
...some of the McCormacks, Mr. Watterston, Messrs. Frost and Harry Hedgehog, an insane man, and Maclieu. I shall make a proposition to my friends in Congress to have the whole painted and put in the Rotunda with our national paintings, reserving a conspicuous place for myself.... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1907 - 352 str.
..."Madam, yesterday there was no law to punish you. To-day, it seems, one has been found." Mrs. Royall writes: "At length the trial came on. There were three...looked like Satan's walking-stick. Mr. C is a good natnred simpleton. His very countenance is a talisman to mirth. He said he hated to tell the worst... | |
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I shall make a proposition to my friends in Congress to have the whole scene painted and put in the rotunda of the Capitol with our national paintings, reserving a conspicuous place for myself. 