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Message:: [QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 451, member: 57"]I just wanted to share something I found in an old (yes, it qualifies as an antique, being from the 1870s) book which I bought a couple of years ago.  The book still has a small paper label as being from the bookseller "Philps & Solomans" in Washington, D.C., the bookstore having been started in 1859 and later having the distinction of being used as the headquarters of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Supreme Court Justice Salmon Chase, and the bookstore's Photographic Department contained the last photograph of President Lincoln. I know that Henry Howard was appointed by Queen Victoria and posted to Washington, D.C., in 1865 and served there until about 1873. Description of the calling card: Ivory, medium weight ivory-colored card stock, measures 3" long and 1-1/2" high. Imprinted (not engraved) in light black/dark gray ink, written in French using a fine/delicate cursive typeface. "M[no period but a quotation mark at the bottom side right of the M] Henry Howard""Attache a la Legation de T. M. Britannique." Almost more interesting to me is a person's name written in medium-dark pencil in small cursive at the top of the card:  "M' de St Ferriol" Can anyone give me any insights as to how British history has remembered (or perhaps not remembered) Henry Howard?  And what could have been Henry Howard's tie(s) with M' de St Ferriol?[/QUOTE]