iddy Girl. I fear she will never
supply the place of a Daughter to Mrs. Cooper! I have hardly a
fonder desire for you or for myself than that we might be and
live like her, whose memory, I trust, we shall ever
cherish....

But, Chloe, a word or two about yourself. Are not you almost
married? You are so far away there is no such thing as hearing
about it. Miss Betsy Williams is well & speaks of you with
affection. Nancy at present is in Trenton. Do let me hear from
you soon. I must go. Burn this scrawl. Kiss little Mary for
me. Adieu. May God bless you and your truly affectionate
friend

ELIZA MACDONALD.

Hannah Cooper was Judge Cooper's eldest daughter, of whom Fenimore
Cooper afterward wrote that she "was perhaps as extensively and
favorably known in the middle states as any female of her years." In
1795, when she was seventeen years of age, Talleyrand was a guest at
Otsego Hall, and the following acrostic on Hannah Cooper's name is
attributed to the pen of the celebrated diplomat:

Aimable philosophe au printemps de son age,
Ni les temps, ni les lieus n'alterent son esprit;
Ne cedent qu' a ses gouts simples et sans etalage,
Au milieu des deserts, elle lit, pense, ecrit.

Cultivez, belle Anna, votre gout pour l'etude;
On ne saurait ici mieux employer son temps;
Otsego n'est pas gai--mais, tout est habitude;
Paris vous deplairait fort au premier moment;
Et qui jouit de soi dans une solitude,
Rentrant au monde, est sur d'en faire l'ornement.

Hannah Cooper afterward attended school in New York City, and passed the
winter of 1799 in Philadelphia while her father was a member of
Congress. Also a member of that Congress was William Henry Harrison,
later the hero of Tippecanoe, and afterward President of the United
States. In this connection Fenimore Cooper, just before Harrison's
inauguration as President, uncovered a long forgotten bit of romance
which he related confidentially in a letter to his old mess-mate
Commodore Shubrick as a "great political discovery." "Miss Anne Cooper
was lately in Philadelphia,"--the letter is dated February 28,
1841,--"where she met Mr. Thomas Biddle, who asked if our family were
not Harrison men. The reason of so singular a question was asked, and
Mr. Biddle answered that in 1799 Mr. Harrison was dying with love for
Miss Cooper, that he (Mr. Biddle) was his confidant, and t