Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Tuesday, July 26, 1870, p. 8, col. 2

LADY FRANKLIN.

Reception at the Burnet House Yesterday.

Lady Franklin remained in the city yesterday, and in the afternoon, as announced, received her friends and the public in the main parlor of the Burnet House.

Between the hours of three and four o’clock large numbers of citizens, gentlemen and ladies, called to pay their respects, and the levee was quite brilliant.

The distinguished object of attention received all graciously, and was gracefully assisted by Miss Cracroft, Mr. J. D. Caldwell and Captain Hall introducing the callers. The demand for autographs was immense, and Lady F. must have written several hundred for enthusiastic collectors. In fact, she was kept busy with her pen during most of the reception, seeming amused at the turn affairs had taken, but willingly acceding to all requests.

There were those who expected to see a tall, dignified, old lady, with silvered hair. Instead they saw a medium-sized gentlewoman, in cap and dark-brown wig, dressed in black silk skirt and cool, loose jacket of white linen, trimmed with black lace. Miss Cracroft was dressed also in dark silk skirt, white jacket, with arms of transparent mu’le. She seemed “fat, fair and forty.”

Following the reception, Lady F. was driven, under the escort of Captain Hall and Mr. Caldwell, over the suspension bridge and then to our beautiful suburbs, to which she seemed to have taken a decided liking. While in Covington the party called on the father of President Grant, Mrs. Grant and her daughter, Mrs. Kramer, and chatted pleasantly for some time.

Last night, escorted to the depot by Captain Hall and Mr. Caldwell, the ladies left for New York, via Niagara. Captain Hall follows in a few days to begin preparations for his great expedition.

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