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Robert C Winthrop of the sarace over a summer home in Brookline and a winter residence in Boston, at both of which she received hosts of distinguished guests To illustrate the iuests re one of my visits at the Brookline home, that Mrs Winthrop was more than one woman--that in that locality she was considered an ”institution” In the latter part of Mr Winthrop's life I received a very graceful note fro ode written by hiolden jubilee of Queen Victoria:

BOSTON, Mass

90 Marlborough Street, 20 Feb'y 1888

Dear Mrs Gouverneur:

Your kind note and the pa I thank you for the up a spare copy of my little Ode on the Queen's Jubilee

I threw it into a newspaper with not a littleI certainly did not dreaht months after its date I appreciate the compliment

Yours truly,

ROBT C WINTHROP

Mrs M Gouverneur

ODE

Not as our Eusta Victoria, On this auspicious Jubilee: Wide as old England's real in every cli the world,-- Yet here her sway Imperial finds an end, In our loved land of Liberty!

Nor is it as our Queen for us to hail thee, Excellent Majesty, On this auspicious Jubilee: Long, long ago our patriot fathers broke The tie which bound us to a foreign yoke, And made us free; Subjects thenceforward of ourselves alone, We pay no hoe to an earthly throne,-- Only to God we bend the knee!

Still, still, to-day and here, thou hast a part, Illustrious Lady, In every honest Anglo-Saxon heart, Albeit untrained to notes of loyalty: As lovers of our old ancestral race,-- In reverence for the goodness and the grace Which lends thy fifty years of Royalty Athee;

For all the virtue, faith and fortitude, The piety and truth Which olden youth,-- We also would do honor to thy nas o'er earth and sea, In attestation of the just renown Thy reign has added to the British Crown!

Meanwhile no swelling sounds of exultation Can banish froure standing at thy side, The cherished consort of thy power and pride, Through weary years the subject of thy tears, Andto us withstood, The friend of peace,--Albert, the Wise and Good!

Boston, June, 1887 ROBERT C WINTHROP

At Geneseo, in the beautiful Genesee Valley, and a few ua, in one of the most fertile portions of the State of New York, resided a contemporary and friend of Mrs Robert C Winthrop, Miss Elizabeth Wadsworth, a daughter of James Wadsworth, a well-known philanthropist and one of the wealthiest landed proprietors in the state He was also the father of Major General James S Wadsworth, a defeated candidate for Governor of New York, as killed in 1864 at the battle of the Wilderness Miss Wadsworth was celebrated for her grace ofher quite well in New York, where she generally passed her winters Quite early in life and before the period when the fair daughters of Aes of n _partis_, she ustus Murray, a lish Parliament and of a Scotch family, the head of which was the Earl of Dunypt, where her husband was Consul General, leaving a young son Her husband's ancestor, John Murray, Lord Duninia

It has been asserted that but few, if any, Colonial Governors, not even the sportive Lord Cornbury of New York who, upon state occasions, dressed himself up in female attire in compliment to his royal cousin, Queen Anne, had quite as eventful a career Lord Duninally came to America as Governor of the Province of New York, but was subsequently transferred to Virginia While in New York he was anization which had been in existence about twenty years and whose first President was Philip Livingston, the Signer In an old New York directory of 1798 I find the following na year: Walter Ruturfurde (sic), President; Peter M'Dougall and George Turnbull, Vice Presidents; George Douglass, Treasurer; George Johnson, Secretary; John Munro, assistant Secretary; the Rev John M Mason and the Rev John Bisset, Chaplains; Dr James Tillary, Physician; and William Renwick, James Stuart, John Knox, Alexander Thoers

It was not at all flattering to the pride of Virginia that Lord Dun in New York after his order of transfer to the Old Doinians by occasionally dissolving their asseenerally iniht to an issue, and Dunainst ”a certain Patrick Henry and his deluded followers” His final act was the burning of Norfolk in 1776, which at that ti Lord Dunhter was born to hiinia” It is said that subsequently a provision was islature, by virtue of which she was to receive a very large sue Meanwhile, the War of the Revolution severed the yoke of Great Britain, and Lord Dunland with his fainia colony grew into womanhood Her father had died and as her circumstances became contracted she addressed a letter to Thomas Jefferson, then President of the United States, under the iinia Jefferson sent the letter to Jainia, and he in turn referred it to the Legislature of that State This letter is now in my possession and is as follows:

Sir:

I ain a letter in which I a years have been forgotten, but which I think no time can really annihilate until fulfiline that youmy father Dunmore's residence in A at Williahter and christened by the na co for me in a manner suitable to the honor they conferred upon me and to the responsibility they had taken on thehter of that assembly and named after the State Events have since occurred which in some measure may have altered the intentions then expressed in my favor These were (so I have understood) that a su during my minority, would make up the sue It is true es may have taken place in America, but that fact still reinians By being that, may I not flatter myself I have some claims upon their benevolence if not upon their justice? May I not ask that State, especially you, sir, their Governor, to fulfil in soements entered into by their predecessors? Your fathers proe I a a will My brothers arebound to do anything for lected situation Perhaps I ought not to mention this circumstance as a proper inducement for you to act upon; nor would I, were it notto remind you of the claiht to your favor and protection to be founded on the promises made by your own fathers, and in the situation in which I stand with regard to the State of Virginia You will ask, sir, why enerosity and justice has been so tardy While uidance He had incurred the displeasure of the Virginians and he feared an application from me would have seeent I had taken no part which could displease my God-fathers, and myself rehter, consequently their charge I wish particularly to enforce my dependence upon your bounty; for I feel hopes revive, which owe their birth to your honor and generosity, and to that of the State whose representative I now address Now that my father is no more, I am certain they and you will remember what et that which estranged your hearts from so honorable a man But should you not, you are too just to visit what you deehter