...which being done, they proceeded to the steamboat. Various foreign notabilities often found their way to Newport. To-day, wrote Colonel Higginson on June 18, 1876, I have been to lunch with Dom Pedro of Brazil and the Empress at Bancroft's—the most bourgeois and good natured of sovereigns, especially the latter, though she is . . . a Bourbon. He looks like a heavy professor of a country ...