The note on the Stoddards states, "The serious illness of Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard, with wife of Richard Henry Stoddard, brings menace of even greater sorrow to the home that has been overshadowed by grief since the death of the young son, Mr. Lorimer Stoddard." The note also mentions that the Stoddards' home on Fifteenth Street had been a popular meeting-place for "a little circle of young people which included the son of Julian Hawthorne and also his daughter, Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne" (22).
