(10) Page 89.—Walter Bowne, then, and for two years previous, a Senator at Albany, and member of the Council of Appointment. He was afterward Mayor of New York, where he died in August, 1846.
(11) Page 93.—During the second war with Great Britain, Mr. Halleck joined a New-York infantry company, “Swartwout’s gallant corps, the Iron Grays,” as he afterward wrote in “Fanny,” and excited their martial ardor by this spirited ode. Among the few survivors of this much-admired corps, are Gouverneur S. Bibby, Stephen Cambreleng, Dr. Edward Delafield, Hickson W. Field, James W. Gerard, and Charles W. Sandford.
(12) Page 96.—Contoit’s Garden, open to the public under the auspices of a Frenchman of that name, on the west side of Broadway, between Leonard and Franklin Streets.
(13) Page 96.—Madame Saint Martin, the proprietress of a milliner’s and perfumery shop on Broadway, next door to the Garden.
(14) Page 97.—The “Opera Francais,” a name given during the summer season, while occupied by a troupe of French actors from New Orleans, to the Chatham Garden Theatre of Mr. Palmo, situated on the west side of Chatham Street, between Duane and Pearl. The “Opera” was a place of fashionable resort, and patronized particularly by the distinguished personages named Mrs. President J. Q. Adams and Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain. The three “danseuses” mentioned were among the principal performers attached to the Opera.
(15) Page 97.—“Swamp Place,” a name given, either in jest or earnest, to a plot of ground in the neighborhood of Jacob and Ferry Streets, near which some medical Columbus of the time had found or fancied a mineral spring of imperishable merit. Unfortunately, it proved itself to be less than a “nine days’ wonder,” by vanishing, one morning, like a dream.
(16) Page 98.—The names of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, De Witt Clinton, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster, which occur on this page, belong to history.
(17) Page 98.—The “Annual Register,” edited by Joseph Blunt, a young lawyer of ability, then in progress; soon after discontinued.
