e there the same evening with his flute. He told Emily
B. that his sister [Mrs. Thomas Pym Remington of
Philadelphia] had written them that you had been in
Philadelphia and that she was so delighted to see you.

Leslie Irving told me that he had seen a letter in the
Commercial Advertiser from Thomas Turner [subsequently Rear
Admiral Turner, U.S.N.] to Hamilton Fish. He thought of
sending it to you, but he thought some one else had probably
done so. I hear that they [the Fishes] are to have a party.
The Bankheads [General James Bankhead's daughters] are going
to spend the summer at West Point. Pa and Jim are better. Pa
rode out yesterday and walked out to-day. He has been in a
great state of excitement about General Scott. It was
reported two days ago that he was killed and he was afraid
it was true. Vera Cruz, I believe, is taken. I cannot write
any longer, I'm so tired. I will send Cornelia's [Cornelia
Scott] purse by H. Forbes [Harriet Forbes, Mrs. Colhoun of
Philadelphia].

M. CAMPBELL.

Saturday April 10th.

Pa thinks it is time for you to come home. Do you know of
any opportunity? I shall not send anything to you. You see
you never will take my advice in anything. I told you to
bring your pink dress with you but you would not. I suppose
I shall not hear from you again. Pa says you can do as you
please about staying longer.

Elizabeth, New Jersey, was a quaint old town whose inhabitants seemed
almost exclusively made up of Barbers, Ogdens and Chetwoods, with a
sprinkling of De Harts. There was a steamboat plying between
Elizabethport (now a part of the City of Elizabeth) and New York, and we
were its frequent patrons. Ursino, the country seat of the Kean family,
then as now was one of the historic places of the neighborhood. As I
remember the beautiful old home, it was occupied by John Kean, father of
the late senior U.S. Senator from New Jersey. At an earlier period the
latter's great-grandfather had married Susan Livingston, a daughter of
Peter Van Brough Livingston of New York, and resided at Ursino. After
the death of her husband she married Count Julian Niemcewicz, who was
called the "Shakespeare of Poland" and who came to America with
Kosciusco, upon whose staff he had served. She was also the grandmother
of Mrs. Hamilton Fish. Another noted estate in the same general
neighb