[99] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 168.
[100] Retrospect of Forty Years, 60.
[101] Mary C. Crawford, Romantic Days of the Early Republic, 207.
[102] Francis Blair’s description, quoted in Rufus Rockwell Wilson’s Washington, the Capital City.
[103] Hamilton, in Men and Manners, describes such garb at a ball given by the French Minister to the members of Congress.
[104] First Forty Years, Jan. 1, 1829.
[105] Butler, in his Retrospect of Forty Years, refers to this peculiarity of Fox’s (p. 61), and Bodisco, who gave the most brilliant dinners and dances, figured in the celebrated marriage to a girl of seventeen during Van Buren’s Administration.
[106] Washington Globe, Feb. 1, 1833, announces these operas with Miss Hughes and Mrs. Anderson in leading rôles.
[107] Advertisement in Washington Globe.
[108] Announcing the opening of a spring school, and commenting on the general preference for the spring over the winter term, Carusi, in the Globe of Jan. 3, 1831, explained the disadvantages of the winter term to be “the disagreeable and long walks ... the frequent inclemency of the weather, and the liability of sickness from exposure.”