Richmond and Vicinity 



Davis, Winnie and Mrs. Hayes felt it was their home when they 

 made their visits to Richmond after Mr. Davis' death. 



There Mr. Matthew Arnold visited, and a long list of 

 "worthies," never ending. 



My mother, the wife of the oldest son, lived in the wing room 

 toward Jefferson Street, whilst her husband, a colonel in the Con- 

 federate Army, was at the front. In the dead of night, the rest 

 of the family being in the second story, she often heard a dis- 

 affected slave passing coal and provisions out of the basement door 

 under her room to the Northern sympathizers. 



But let us go through the house on to another old-fashioned 

 porch, the east end of which was a charming greenhouse, and 

 thence to the garden. In the writer's memory it was the more 

 formal terraced garden, at the end of which was a long line of 

 maple trees, back of which a grape arbor extended the whole 

 width of the garden, thus screening from the view of the house the 

 stables, yards, etc., which opened on Main Street — on a much 

 lower level than the garden. But to the child, that stable guarded 

 so closely by old "Uncle" Sam, the coachman, held delights as in- 

 teresting as the garden. The tuberoses, mignonette, heliotrope 

 and, O, such tea roses! were beautiful, but the glamour of the big 

 old landau, the victoria, the glittering silver-mounted harness, the 

 spirited horses! To penetrate there spelled heaven to the childish 

 mind. 



The accompanying picture only gives a poor view of one of the 

 four terraces which formed the garden, and no idea of the long 

 side lawn extending from Franklin to Main Street. But it does 

 show some of the trees of the original garden — the lindens and the 

 paulownias. This view was taken after the death of General An- 

 derson and when the property had been sold to give way to the 

 Jefferson Hotel. And the borders, etc., look in it little as they 

 had under the care of my grandmother. One hears much now of 

 the "Newport Pink" and such "novelties" of these days. There 

 used to be always planted there thick masses of geranium, just the 



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