[10] On the site of the present Metropolitan.

[11] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 43.

[12] Present site of the Willard.

[13] Retrospect of Forty Years, 48.

[14] N. P. Willis, American Scenery, III, 49.

[15] Men and Manners in America, 20, note.

[16] Four o’clock.

[17] Men and Manners, 20.

[18] Frederick Seward’s Reminiscences, 17-19.

[19] American Scenery, III, 49.