About Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Vol. 1
Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, Vol. 1- By Ben Perley Poore. History, personalities, politics and events in Washington from the presidency of John Quincy Adams to James Buchanan. Digitized full text (544 pages) of the original 1886 edition from Google Books.
