[50] Peggy Eaton and Mrs. Hugh Lawson White.
[51] Retrospect of Forty Years, 59.
[52] Near Fourteenth Street on the north side of the street.
[53] Adams’s Memoirs, March 8, 1834.
[54] Ibid., March 11, 1834.
[55] Ibid., March 12, 1834.
[56] Mrs. Margaret Bayard Smith, who recorded it in First Forty Years of American Society, Jan. 12, 1835, thought it exaggerated.
[57] Mrs. Seaton, wife of the editor of the Intelligencer.
[58] Mrs. Benjamin Ogle Tayloe lived in the house still standing on Lafayette Square, known in recent years as “The Little White House.” She was a famous hostess. President W. H. Harrison contracted the cold that killed him while walking through the slush from the White House to the Tayloes’ to offer a diplomatic post to the master of the house.
[59] First Forty Years, 356.