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extraction, whose family settled in Ohio at such and such a date. We were married on September 26, 1913 in Grace Church chantry, New York City, by the then rector of the church who later became Bishop Slattery of Massachusetts. The record of our marriage can be found there, if necessary, as well as in the City Hall. It would show that it was my first and only marriage and my husband's first and only marriage. My husband at that time was Executive Secretary to Mayor Mitchel and the marriage was well-known to all our friends and to most of the public officials of the time.”

I thought I'd put it all in one letter. I sent her the letter and then I sent a copy of it to the press. It was printed rather broadly, but of course was no headline. Most newspapers were glad to print it - the New York Times, the Tribune, the Washington Post, of course the Boston and Springfield papers. All the decent papers in the country printed that, but it was only printed once. So the record is all there.

Even so they continued to circulate this marriage certificate. I got a letter from the town clerk of Newton, the date of which I forget. It was a very amusing letter, because it was so New England. He said to me, “Dear Miss Perkins, I am writing to you because I am so mewhat