Stanza 92.—Daniel D. Tompkins.—Then a resident of Staten Island.
Stanza 93.—“The Turtle Club.”—From New York, whose frequent open-air festivities, at Hoboken, were devoted to punch and politics.
Stanza 107.—Simon Thomas.—A man of color, the orthodox and omnipresent caterer for fashionable dinner and supper parties.
Stanza 114.—Thomas Whale.—An eminent dancing-master, and a fine specimen of the old-school gentleman. He always appeared in knee-breeches and silk stockings, and was a constant reader at the Society Library, of which venerable institution he was a member.
Stanza 116.—Edmund Simpson and James W. Wallack, managers of the city theatres, and actors highly esteemed, then and now.
Stanza 118.—The “Croakers”—see note, page 377.
“Woodworth’s Cabinet.”—A periodical conducted by the poet of the name.
The “New Salmagundi.”—A continuation, by James K. Paulding, of a work under a similar title, published in 1808, the joint production of himself and his friend Washington Irving.
Stanza 124.—Madame Bouquet and Monsieur Pardessus.—The fasionable milliner and ladies’ slipper-maker of the day.
Stanza 138.—Mr. R. P. Lawrence.—A coach-maker in John Street.
Stanza 140.—De Witt Clinton.—Governor of the State of New York.
Stanza 141.—“Eastburn’s Rooms,” in the building occupied by James Eastburn & Co., booksellers and publishers, on the corner of Broadway and Pine Street—a favorite resort of men of letters and leisure. Bishop Eastburn, of the Episcopal Church, and James W. Eastburn, the young poet, who died at twenty-two, are sons of the worthy bookseller, for whom Mr. Halleck entertained a great friendship, and to whose reading-room he was a constant visitor.
Stanza 144.—The “Lyceum of Natural History.”—An association of men of science, and patronized by the most highly cultivated of the city scholars, still existing.
Stanza 172.—The “Council of Appointment” at Albany.—Then an important department of the State government, abolished upon the revision of the Constitution in 1821, having become a notorious political machine.
Stanza 173.—Colonel Aaron Burr, then Vice-President of the United States, the theme of one of the most interesting episodes in American history.
