into the next world without fear.


She had a delightful sense of humour--so sweet, so delicate, so
vivid. She had a gift of appreciation which I have never seen
surpassed.


If Mrs. Botta found more in society than most persons do, it
was because she carried more there.

Horace Greeley once said to me, "Anne Lynch is the best woman that
God ever made."

Few women known to me have had greater grace or ease in the
entertainment of strangers, while in her more private
intercourse, her frank, intelligent, courteous ways won her the
warmest and most desirable friendships.


The position of the Bottas in the literary and artistic world
enabled them to draw together not only the best-known people of
this country, but to a degree greater than any, as far as I
know, the most distinguished visitors from abroad, beyond the
ranks of mere title or fashion. No home, I think, in all the
land compared with theirs in the number and character of its
foreign visitors.


I should like to introduce you to her home as it was--the hall,