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AxNERoYAIL- Our readers who have been
interested in the extracts from Mistress Anne
Royals book describing her travels in Yer
mont, may he also interested in the follow
ing sketch of that strong-minded woman,
which we find in the Ne,r York World:
Mrs. Anne Royall concerning whom your
correspondent Horace" makes inquiry, was
| DOIH III tlSlllld- W me II tiliu SUI WIS
stolen by the Indians, with whom she lived
about fifteen Years Shortly after her re-
lease she married a Captain Royall and with
| him removed to Alabama, where She learned
TO read and write. She afterwards became
a resident Of Washington and was widely
known as the editor of a paper called the
Washington PAIL Pry and at II later period
of the HuntrtsS, and as the author OF the iol-
lowing volumes l. sketches Of History,
| Life and Manners in the United States, by
a Traveller, New Haven, 1896 2 The
Black Book ; or, Il Continuation of Travels
in the United States" Washington, 1928.
). The Black Book or, Sketches of His
| tory. Life and Manners in the United
States" 1899 3 vols A. Southern Tour {;
or, Second Series of the Black Book" 1880
81, 2 vols. 5. The Tcnncsscan; n Novel
Founded on Facts" New Haven, 1927. g.
Letters from Alabama on Narioua Sub
jects," Washington, 1890.
The following extract from letter writ
ten by Judge Joseph Story TO Mrs. Story,
Washington. March &, 1927 (sce Story's
Life and Letters" 30, gives an insight
into the manner in which Mrs. Anne accom-
plished the sale of her literary wares:
I'VE have the famous Mrs. Royal here
with her new novel, The Tennessean, which
Sllp HI. ntl lily To-
self to buy TO avoid worse castigation."
DIR. Alibonc exclaims at the close of his no.
ticc of Mrs Royal in his Dictionary of
Authors" "Woe 10 the member of Congress
who refused to subscribe to Mrs. Royals
papers or to buy her books"
Mrs Ann Royal was the first female
lobbyist and the original female interviewer
and backmalcr Of Washington. a cores
pondent of the Chicago TribHn6. writing
from Washington City, gives the following
account Of her: The old lady, with all her
angles of disposition, was fond Of a joke.
The more practical, the more paying" she
would say. About the time the Wilkes En-
petition returned. and the rare tropical birds
were opened to view in the Patent Office
museum, a desire for the curious in Ornithol-
ogy developed strongly in members of Con-
grcss. The result was Nine. Royal sold an
ordinary pair of white bantams dyed sky
blue to member from Western Pennsyl-
vania, and came near dccoying a Senator
from Albania with another pair dyed green.
Her price was cxorbiiant Many Congress
men feared her. All of them hated her.
She was a small scraggy woman with
keen black eyes and a formidable nose,
and her costume would have graced a
field of growing corn as a scarccrow. livery
distinguished person received WISH from
her, and if they subscribed for the Huntr6ss
the account given of them was compliment
airy, but if they declined, she thcnccforth
abused and DENOUNCED them with her eccrn-
trio pen. She had an assistant handmaidcn
named Sally Slack, the counterpart of her
employer; in all, except the length and ac-
tivity of that unruly member the tongue.
Once, when Mrs. Royal had become UNI
usually abusive, she was indicted by the
Grand Jury and tried as common scold-
cOmmUnis rfrdtrir-an offence under the old
colonial code of Maryland still in force in
this district. The District Attorney labored
had to have her sentenced, after conviction,
to be duckcd in pond, but the court i'm
posed fine of so, and to give security for
her good behavior for one year. Her counsel
moved TO arrest the judgment on the ground
that the law for punishment of common
scolds was obsolete in England and never
was in force in this country. But Chief
Justice Cranch decided that - the offence is
not obsolete and cannot become obsolete SO
long as common scold is common NUS
ance." Mrs. Royal died in October, 1854,
at the advanced age of ninety years.