And I think the legacy was valued as highly by her who paid it as if it had been a costly gem or a work of art from an emperor's gallery.
Mr.Calhoun was very intimate in my grandmother's household when he was in college, and always inquired with great interest after the young ladies of the family when he met anybody who knew them.

He had a special liking for my mother, who was about his own age, and always inquired for her.
William M.Evarts visited Washington in his youth and called upon Mr.Calhoun, who received him with great consideration, went with him in person to see the President and what was worth seeing in Washington.

Mr.Calhoun spoke in the highest terms of Roger Sherman to Mr.Evarts, said that he regarded him as one of the greatest of our statesmen, and that he had seen the true interests of the South when Southern statesmen were blind to them.

This Mr.Calhoun afterward said in a speech in the Senate, including, however, Mr.Paterson of New Jersey and Oliver Ellsworth in his eulogy.
The story of Roger Sherman's life has never been told at length.
There is an excellent memoir of him in Sanderson's "Lives of the Signers," written by Jeremiah Evarts, with the assistance of the late Governor and Senator Roger S.Baldwin of Connecticut.
But when that was written the correspondence of the great actors of his time, and indeed the journals of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention and the Madison Papers, were none of them accessible to the public.
An excellent though brief memoir of Mr.Sherman was published a few years ago by L.H.Boutell, Esq., of Chicago.

Mr.Sherman was a man who seemed to care nothing for fame.