Arthur Machen, shown here
at the age of about 40, was the son of the Secretary of the United States
Senate. He was born in 1827 and lived in Virginia until he left to attend
Harvard Law School. When he finished law school he decided to practice
in Baltimore where his descendants remain to this day. He did so agains
the advice of William H. Seward (later Lincoln's Secretary of State) who
warned that "In Baltimore, he would be under the privations and inconveniences
of a great city as largely as New York, and yet would be in a provincial
position-- a thing to be avoided." (p. 146). Machen instead "made up my
mind to settle in Baltimore. I prefer a Southern climate --Southern people--
more than all, I desire to be near home." (p. 148)
[readings from the text of his letters re: the trial and the subsequent rumor he reports]
from: Letters of Arthur W. Machen with biographical Sketch, compiled by Arthur W. Machen, Jr. (Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1917).
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