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solace; the last six are constantly within my reach; I read them once a day at least." And she, years after their marriage, was half distracted every time his duties or his pleasures called him away: "I feel as if my guardian angel had forsaken me," she writes on one occasion; "tell me, why do I grow every day more tenacious of your regard? can my affection increase? is it because each hour proves you more deserving? Heaven preserve the husband of my heart! and teach me to cherish his love, and deserve it." In 1789 Burr was thirty-three years old. He was small but well formed, with a handsome face, by some described as striking, and eyes jet black and uncommonly brilliant and piercing. In public, he had an air of eminent authority, though in the drawing-room his manner was singularly graceful, gentle, and fascinating.

The roll of attorneys of the Supreme Court at this time in the city of New York consisted of one hundred and twenty-two names. Among these were James Duane, admitted in August, 1754; Richard Nichols Harrison, in January, 1769; Burr, in January, 1782; Hamilton, in July, 1782; Jay, in October, 1758; James Kent, in January, 1785; Morgan Lewis, in October, 1782; Robert Troup, in April, 1782; and Robert R. Livingston, Edward Livingston, Egbert Benson, John Watts, Gouvernem* Morris, Richard Varick, Josiah Ogden Hoffinan and James Lansing, the dates of whose admission I do not discover. It may well be doubted whether the city has ever since, notwithstanding its prodigious growth in every thing else, embraced as much legal learning, eloquence, or dignity of character, as in that year, when the "New York Directory" was contained in ninety-six very small octodecimo pages.

Dr. John H. Livingston and Dr. William Linn were ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church. Dr. Linn was a fine scholar and a graceful and fervid orator; an honorary member of the Cincinnati, and one of the chaplains to Congress; and his simple and