I just found s whole website to Ms. Ream life...
https://www.vinnieream.com/index.htm
Vinnie went to Rome and set up a studio like many other women sculptors and she kept a guestbook and guess
who visited her, Ms. Edmonia Lewis and many others...
Artists' studios in Rome and Florence during the nineteenth century were prime items on virtually every tourist's agenda, second only to the antiquities and public galleries. Virtually all of the guidebooks contain their addresses, and most of the travel memoirs published -- they are legion -- contain some mention of studio visits.6 Some have entire chapters devoted to major expatriate artists like Hiram Powers or Wilham Wetmore Story. What makes Vinnie's studio so interesting in this regard, however, is the fact that she kept a guest book from December 1869, until some time prior to her leaving Rome in October 1870. This guest book is the second major item of Vinnie's to be found at The University of Iowa.
Tourists, diplomats, sculptors both Italian and American, painters, musicians, dignitaries from the Roman Catholic Church, and American politicians are all to be found registered in Vinnie's guest book. Not many of the signatures are autographs, since Vinnie or her parents evidently kept the book in order, although a notable exception to this is Franz Liszt, who signed the book with a flourish on April 10, 1870. According to her travel notes on the European journey, Vinnie first met Liszt when she went to hear him play at a convent in Rome on January 7, 1870.7 Thereafter he several times went to her studio for long visits. She made a medallion of his head and he dedicated a song to her.
From the American artist colony in Rome, Harriet Hosmer, Chauncey B. Ives, Edmonia Lewis, Joseph Mozier, Willian H. Rinehart, Randolph Rogers, and William Wetmore Story, all prominent sculptors, are registered in Vinnie's guest book. Anne Whitney, Emma Stebbins, Margaret Foley, and Sarah Freeman Clark -- less well-known women sculptors whom, along with Harriet Hosmer, Henry James called the "white Marmorean flock," all came. So did Charlotte Cushman, the famous American actress now near the end of her life. Among painters registered were George Healy and Miner K. Kellogg, the latter known mostly for an extended public argument over the exhibition of Hiram Powers' "Greek Slave" in the United States during the 1840's. An entry for February 1870, "Mrs. and Miss Cassatt," almost certainly register Mary Cassatt and her mother.
There are also "old" friends from Washington, including John Rice, chairman of the House committee which originally recommended Vinnie for the Lincoln commission. Representative James S. Rollins is there, too -- he had written a long description of Vinnie's character in recommending her for something, possibly for the original settings that Lincoln granted her in 1864.8 Vinnie had known Rollins since her year in Christian College, shortly before she met Colonel Elias Boudinot, that Cherokee businessman who named Vinita, Oklahoma, for her. He, too, was in Rome at this time.
Here is the link to the University of Iowa site and her time in Rome for they have Ms. Vinnie guestbook...
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/bai/mcdonald.htm
Did you read there is a town in Oklahoma named after her...
