Lady Ritchie--Anne Thackeray--told me many amusing stories of his whimsies.

He was a man among brainy men and a lion among clever women.
We had already come to be good friends and constant comrades when the whirligig of time threw us together for a little while in the lower house of Congress.

One day he beckoned me over to his seat.

He was leaning backward with his hands crossed behind his head.
As I stood in front of him he said: "On the eighth of February, 1858, Mrs.Gwin, of California, gave a fancy dress ball.

Mr.Lamar, of Mississippi, a member of Congress, was there.