"[3] After a honeymoon at her parents' home, she moved with her husband to Kentucky, and his family gave the couple a slave as a wedding gift.
[1] The publication in the journal included 207 footnote annotations and an introduction by Linda Przybyszewski, a professor of history at the University of Cincinnati who had written a biography of John Marshall Harlan in 1999.
[1][5][7] Upon its publication by the journal, the memoir was reviewed in an article in The New York Times by Linda Greenhouse, a reporter who covered Supreme Court issues for the newspaper.
[1] Greenhouse said the memoir was "the deeply personal story of a girl's transformation from a 17-year-old bride to a confident woman, a mother of six, who offered food and drink to the 200 to 300 visitors who thronged the Harlan residence every Monday afternoon, when the wives of Supreme Court justices were expected to be 'at home' to Washington society".
Their second son, James S. Harlan, practiced in Chicago and served as Attorney General of Puerto Rico before being appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1906 and becoming that body's chairman in 1914.