PAGE 339.  Burr was married to Madame Jumel for a short time when they were both old enough to know better.  She very quickly sent him about his business and resumed the name of her second husband.  Burr had appropriated sixteen thousand dollars with which she had entrusted him, and, as she told people still living, his charming manners were entirely superficial, he was cross and exacting at home.  Nevertheless she did not hesitate to make use of him upon occasion.  During the bread riots in Italy her carriage was hemmed in one day and her richly attired self threatened by the furious populace.  When it became evident that her terrified coachman could make no headway she arose to her majestic height, and, sweeping out one hand with her haughtiest gesture, said in a loud and commanding tone, “Make way! make way! for the widow of the Vice-President of the United States.”  The crowd fell back properly awed.  Madame Jumel claimed to have the famous diamond necklace, but for the truth of this claim I cannot vouch.  She certainly had many personal relics of Napoleon, confided to the care of Jumel, when the fallen Emperor meditated flight on his faithful banker’s frigate.

PAGE 387.  It is impossible that Hamilton could have sat for all the alleged portraits of himself, scattered over the United States, or he would have had no time to do any work.  Moreover, few realize his personality or the contemporaneous description of him.  That in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is the best.  That in the City Hall, New York, is one of the best, and the copy of it in the Treasury Department, Washington, is better.  Several others are charming, notably, the one at Morristown Headquarters, New Jersey, and the one painted for his army friends, now in the possession of Mr. Philip Schuyler.  The one in the Chamber of Commerce is a Trumbull, but looks like a fat boy with thin legs.  It is to be hoped there will be no further photographing of that libel.  Had Hamilton looked like it he would have accomplished nothing.

PAGE 413.  As the visit of little Lafayette to the United States was of no historical moment I have taken the liberty of bringing him over at my own pleasure.  Otherwise I should have been obliged merely to mention his advent in the course of the rapid seven years’ summary which comes later.

PAGE 430.  That Hamilton conceived the ice-water cure for yellow fever is well known to doctors.

PAGE 435.  Mr. Richard Church kindly brought me an old bundle of letters from Mrs. Church to Mrs. Hamilton.  Except for the faded ink they might been written yesterday, so lively, natural, and modern were they.  It was impossible to realize that the writer was dust long since.  Indeed, in all the matter, published and unpublished, that I have read for this book, I find no excuse for the inverted absurdities and stilted forms with which it is thought necessary to create a hundred-year-old atmosphere.

PAGE 441.  This letter of Thomas Corbin disposes of the asseverations of Jefferson’s biographers that the leader of the Democrats dressed himself like a gentleman until he became President.  His untidiness was probably congenital to begin with, and in any case would have been a policy from the first, of that deep and subtle mind.