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To organize his government, mary launched her own campaigns hosting family and friends, greeting diplomats and statesmen, anticipating her new set of duties, and she sought to maneuver the treacherous shoals of secession. The coldness and snobbery of easterners was wearing her down. She confronted one of the most idiosyncratic of american institutions Washington Society. At the heart of the citys bow monday, the toughened core of social arbiters were known as cave dwellers. Their tenure and tenacity gave them influence over the parade of newcomers who straggled into the city at irregular but certainly every fouryear intervals. The inner city of d. C. Society was surrounded by the money bags whose rung on the ladder was bought, and then there were the high brows, whose station was secured by talent regardless of wealth although it was considered felicitous when the two went together. Three outer rings applied steady social pres ....
Considered felicityious when the two went together. Three outer rungs applied social steady pressure, jockeying for pressure, the diplomats the army and navy crowd and the politicos, but clearly it was the cave dwellers particularly women like mary klemmer and Laura Holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capitols society. Fanny eams mrs. Charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th street home while her sister Marian Campbell governeur of new york was in several knickerbocker circles. Mrs. Eames reigned in d. C. And she would later befriend the first lady, mary lincoln. The physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. Noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. John hay concurred it would be difficult to conceive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue. And as we just heard maybe the ....