FOOTNOTES:
[1] A: W. here and throughout these letters refers to Mme. Waddington's husband, M. William Henry Waddington, "G. K. S.," "H. L. K.," "A. J. K." and "J. K.," to whom the letters are addressed, refer to Mme. Waddington's sisters, Mrs. Eugene Schuyler, Miss Henrietta L. King, and the late Miss Anne J. King, and to her sister-in-law, the late Mrs. Cornelius L. King.
[2] After the Berlin Congress and the Foreign Office.
[3] Richard Waddington, Mme. Waddington's brother-in-law, now Senator of the Seine Inférieure.
[4] A: Petrofski.
[5] Teases.
[6] MacMahon, President at that time of the French Republic.
[7] Now cardinal.
[8] Lady Harcourt is a daughter of the late John Lothrop Motley, the historian.
[9] Empress Eugénie, widow of Napoleon III., who has lived in England for many years.
[10] The Duke of Bedford.
[11] Where he had been summoned on account of the death of his mother.
[12] M. Waddington died in 1894. Hence the interruption in the series of Madame Waddington's letters from 1893 until 1897.