She used to take me to visit this lady.

With Major Heiss she divided my newspaper education, her part of it being the writing part.

Whatever I may have attained in that line I largely owe to her.

She took great pains with me and mothered me in the absence of my own mother, who had long been her very dear friend.

To get rid of her, or rather her pen, Mr.Buchanan gave General Casneau, when the Douglas schism was breaking out, a Central American mission, and she and he were lost by shipwreck on their way to this post, somewhere in Caribbean waters.
My immediate yokemate on the States was John Savage, "Jack," as he was commonly called; a brilliant Irishman, who with Devin Reilley and John Mitchel and Thomas Francis Meagher, his intimates, and Joseph Brennan, his brother-in-law, made a pretty good Irishman of me.