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Lionel S. Sackville West, the British Minister, 

 Secretary Bayard, Chief Justice Waite, Justices 

 Miller, Field, and Gray, of the United States Su- 

 preme Court ; Judge Cooley, of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission ; Senators Hale, Palmer, 

 Allison, and Butler ; Admiral Rodgers ; Commodore 

 Harmony ; Mr. Thompson, Minister of Justice of 

 Canada ; Judge Bancroft Davis, and Mr. Sigourney 

 Butler. 



I dined the same evening with the late Judge John 

 Davis, and met a very cheery party of twelve in all, 

 and a galaxy of pretty women, including Miss Grant, 

 — now Lady Essex, — Miss Gwynne, a very charming 

 " bachelor lady," Miss Maccomb, and sundry others. 

 Spring Rice was also there. The Judge was a capital 

 fellow, full of amusing anecdotes, and the best pos- 

 sible company. He had held several important 

 posts in the State Department, had been called to 

 the bar in 1875, and ten years later President Cleve- 

 land made him Associate Justice of the United States 

 Court of Claims. When I left England my dear old 

 friend Arthur Guest, now, alas ! no longer with us, 

 gave me a letter of introduction to the Judge, whom 

 he knew intimately and liked much. Mrs. Davis 

 was a daughter of Mr. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, 

 Secretary of State in President Arthur's Adminis- 

 tration. She was one of the handsomest and most 



