ry, 1808. In a few days I
received the following letter from her own pen:

21 ELM STREET, QUINCY, MASS., November 16, 1899.

My dear Mrs. Gouverneur:

I was very glad to receive your note saying that you would
come to see us in a few days. I am a very poor writer, not
holding the old pen of the "ready writer," and my brother
Isaac Hull is a great invalid and not able to get about, so
lame.

I began two or three notes to you but my fingers are so stiff
I do not hold the pen, but wish to tell you that we shall be
glad to see you. We are both tired of being invalids. We do
not forget good old times far back in the century. The steam
cars leave Boston at the South Station. I think I sent you a
letter yesterday, but if you fail to get it, I shall be very
sorry.

I have so many letters to write and can but just keep the pen
going. It is a lovely day, but I never go out now and Isaac
Hull is suffering all sorts of pains. Comes down when he can.
Sorry to send such a poor sample. I have not been at Jamaica
Plain for two years.

We live in the oldest house and are the oldest couple in "all
Connecticut," as Hull used to sing.

Very truly yours,

E. C. ADAMS.

As I say, the very oldest and the head of five generations. I
am so forgetful.

"Hull" Adams, as he was generally called, had a fine tenor voice and I
have frequently heard him sing in duet with Archibald Campbell, who sang
bass. Adams and Campbell were lifelong friends and were fellow students
at West Point. The latter was graduated from West Point in 1835 and
resigned from the Army in 1838. He subsequently became a civil engineer
and was a Commissioner to establish the boundaries between the United
States and Canada. His wife was Miss Mary Williamson Harod of New
Orleans, and a niece of Judge Thomas B. Adams. Her father, Charles
Harod, who was president of the Atchafalaya Bank of New Orleans, was an
aide-de-camp to General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans and, with
Commodore Daniel T. Patterson in command of our naval forces, met and
arranged with the pirate Jean Lafitte to bring in his men to fight on
the American side. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were lifelong residents of the
District, where she is especially remembered for her many pleasing
traits. Their son, Charles H. Campbell, still resides in Washington and
married a daughter of the late Ad