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Woman’s Record; Sketches of all Distinguished Women – NY 1853
(Original Copyright Expired)
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Social chit
chat between competing New York Society Swans Mrs. Charles Maverick Parker (Cornelia
Vanderburgh Parker) to Mrs. R. K. Haight (Sarah Rogers Haight) …overheard by
some at the recent January 17, 1855 "Ladies' Ball for the Relief of the Poor"…
being screamed above the music between adjoining boxes at the Academy of Music – “I am queen of
New York society dearie...” “But I am the pretty one Cornelia…”
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