Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin, 1837-1920

Johnston traveled to Europe frequently in this period, often in the company of her mother, Frances Antoinette Benjamin Johnston, and her Aunt “Nin,” Cornelia Benjamin Hagan. Although her Diaries are largely incomplete, those kept by her mother during their trips abroad in 1900 and 1906 are detailed and informative. Johnston's close relationship with both her mother, a former newspaper correspondent who frequently acted as her daughter's secretary, and her aunt is documented in the Family Correspondence . Other significant correspondents of the period include Henry Adams, Elizabeth S. Cameron, Bliss Carman, Frances Folsom Cleveland, George B. Cortelyou, Theodore Dreiser, Hollis Burke Frissell, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Joseph C. Hornblower, B. F. Johnson, Charles Follen McKim, James Rush Marshall, Charles Moore, Edward Penfield, Ethel Reed, and Mills Thompson.