Alexander Randall (1803-1881) was a prominent lawyer and businessman in Annapolis. He was a U.S. Congressman (Whig Party) from 1841 through 1843 representing Anne Arundel and part of Howard County as well as sections of Baltimore City. As a strong Unionist, he served from 1864 through 1868 during the Civil War and Reconstruction era as Attorney General of Maryland.Alexander Randall and Elizabeth Blanchard Randall (1827-1896) had seven children, Blanchard, Burton, Elizabeth, Henry, Daniel, Wyatt and Adelaide. Their son Blanchard Randall(1857-1942) was a prominent businessmen in the firm of Bill and Fiske in Baltimore and a philanthropist who served on the City-Wide Congress held in 1911 to establish the Baltimore Museum of Art….Susan Katherine Brune (1860-1937), wife of Blanchard Randall, was the great-granddaughter of Ambrose Clark, a prominent Baltimore merchant who traded with the West Indies and Europe in the late 18th and early 19th Century.“ – Maryland Historical Society
Oh hi. Just imagine if I had the time to go to the MD Historical Society and read all these letters to Blanchard Randall. They’re all there:
4 folders
Incoming Correspondence, 1891-1936
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1915
Reminiscences, undated
Passport, 1892
..at the historical society. Maybe he ‘reminiscences’ about his wife’s carrots.
They were good. I like carrots.
Yes the ice is for show.
When I took this photo there was steam rising from the carrots. I thought about drawing little steam lines to demonstrate but that seems too absurd for this dignified venture.
When I was peppering this with my peppermill from Sav-A-Lot, the peppermill broke open and I had to pick all these peppercorns out of here before bringing it to brunch.
As is often the case when drippings are called for I cooked a few slices of bacon first.
I don’t have any fresh parsley right now but good ole vapid dry parsley worked in a kind of aesthetically pleasing way.
