[79] First Forty Years, Jan. 26, 1830.

[80] National Intelligencer, Jan. 2, 1831.

[81] National Intelligencer, Feb. 16, 1831.

[82] Miss Martineau thus describes the life of a lady of fashion, Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 145.

[83] First Forty Years, Nov. 7, 1831.

[84] Quoted by Ellet in Court Circles of the Republic, 163 n.

[85] Letter to Mrs. Sarah Waldo Story, Life and Letters of Story, II, 117.

[86] Figures of the Past.

[87] Mrs. Wharton’s Social Life of the Republic, 139, 179.

[88] First Forty Years, Aug. 29, 1831.