We meet once a week; no officers, no formalities; invitations, when in case of intelligent and distinguished strangers, and after a plain and light repast, retire about eleven o'clock." At this club Mr.Gallatin, with his wonderful conversational powers, became at once the centre of interest.

The club met at the houses of members in the winter evenings.

There was always a supper, but the rule was absolute that there should be only one hot dish served, a regulation which the ladies endeavored to evade when the turn of their husbands arrived to supply the feast.

Among the later members were Professor Anderson, John A.Stevens, Mr.Gallatin's countryman De Rham, John Wells, Samuel Ward, Gulian C.Verplanck, and Charles King.

No literary symposium in America was ever more delightful, more instructive, than these meetings.