Index to
Social Life In Old New Orleans
Being Recollections of my Girlhood
by
Eliza Ripley
New York and London, D. Appleton and Company, 1912
Index prepared by Rita Curry-Pittman, Copyright 2004
Many chapters of this book first appeared as stories in the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Born on February 1, 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky as Eliza Moore Chinn, Mrs. Ripley was the daughter of Judge Richard Henry Chinn and Betsy Holmes. She wed her first husband, James A. McHatton of Kentucky, in 1852 and for ten years they lived at Arlington Plantation, a few miles below Baton Rouge. Her second marriage in 1873 was to Dwight Ripley of Norwich, Connecticut. She died one day after “Negotiations for publication of this work were completed.” For more details see, A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. II, p 686.
Memoirs of her Civil War experiences are recorded in her 1889 publication, From Flag to Flag. The University of North Carolina has this book and a number of other out-of-print books online at http://docsouth.unc.edu .
Within the first pages I realized this book should have an index and began making notes. Eliza Chinn Ripley recorded so many useful pieces of information, not only about herself and her immediate family but, her neighbors in Baton Rouge and in New Orleans, about long forgotten social habits, items, songs, and garments used then but unknown to modern man.
She wrote in a style that is as comfortable to readers today as any modern text and kept my interest flowing to the next pages before I had read that far.
My instincts as a mother, wife, seamstress, embroiderer, textile conservationist, avid cook, genealogist, bird watcher, boating enthusiast, lover of history, every essence of who and what I am all told me that anyone from Louisiana, anyone who loves history, any woman who likes to know how other women lived in a different lifetime, all would enjoy the book.
While preparing this index, I down-loaded and began reading her other book, “From Flag to Flag,” and found myself all the more mesmerized by her true stories of exactly what it was like for families living through the Civil War. I can easily imagine what it is like to have twenty-five guests in my home for a few hours but, to have several hundred escape the battle in Baton Rouge and alight on your doorstep for days and leave three women behind for several weeks more because the excitement brought on three deliveries of newborns, I cannot imagine.
INDEX – Women in this index are listed by both maiden and married names.
acid skin treatment 110
Adams, Mrs. R. W. nee Caroline Deslonde 117
actor and actress 319
admission of guilt 18, 19
ailment 17
treatments 17
Aime, Felicie 185, 186, 188
Oriental garden with riverlet 188
wed Alfred Roman 190
Aime, Gabriel 187, 190
Aime, Valcour 179, 180, 186, 190
plantation 184, 185, 186
close relationship to Roman family 187
governess from New England 187, 188, 265
Tante Lise 184
alack-a-day 6, 30
Allain, Celeste 179
Allain, SosthPne 179
almond hulls 39
Alpaca 2
Alroy, Honorable Mr. 196
alum 39
ambulance 331
Amenaide 155
American stagecoach 137, 138
American style 289
anatomy 18
Anderson, Peter 104
Angélina, Mme, dance teacher on Royal 150, 151
architecture 2
Arlington Plantation 256
slid into the Mississippi river 211, 262
Armant, Ed (composer) 149
Armory Hall 5
Arpin, Mme Caroline 149
arranged marriage 180
art 11
artist 303
sketching not allowed 317
Ascension Parish 77
Ashburton, Lord (of London) 169
Astor House, NY 85
attorney 162
autumn 22
Avery, Judge 199
awning 186
Babcock, Mr. William of New York 89
Babcock, Mrs. nee Maria Shute 89
backstitch described 37
baize bag 12
baking 39
baggage on ship 132
baggage on stagecoach 138
balcony 186
ball guests 260
ballad 154
Baltimore oriole 18
bananas 44
bandoline 111
banquette 81
barPge 59
Barriere’s on Royal street 58, 59
Baronne street 161
Barracks, the (in Baton Rouge) 251, 299, 301
Barataria Canal 318
(NOTE also known as Company Canal, Peoples' Canal, and Westwego Canal)
Basin street 324
basket for cards 50, 56
basket, Indian 315
bath, Saturday night 212
bathing suits (in 1849) 142
Baton Rouge 73, 74, 178, 251, 280, 299, 321
Battle of Baton Rouge 302
Battle of the River Rasin 54
Battle of New Orleans 297
Bayou Fordoche 99, 254
Bayou Lafourche 202
Bayou Road bridge 313
Bayou Sara Hotel 94, 97
Bayou St. John 63
Bayou Téte 254
bead & shell shop 324
Beauregard, Mrs. (General) nee Mathilde Deslonde 117
beaux 52, 55, 56, 65, 67, 101, 119, 143, 165
bed, tester or four-poster 38
behavior of children 1
Bein, Doctor 84
Bein, Susanna 84
Beins, the 29
Belize, the 9
Bell, Mr., cashier 3
Belle Creole, La, steamship, river boat, coast packer 94, 159, 173, 179, 182, 183, 189, 190, 298
Captain Ure 182, 183
From http://www.steamboats.org Name: BELLE CREOLE Type: Sidewheel Wooden hull packet Size:447 tons Launched: 1845, Cincinnati, Oh. Destroyed: 1852, off the lists Area: Miss. R., New Orleans - Vicksburg. Captains: 1846, Champromere ; 1850, J. M. White Comments: 1849, Nov. 16, near N. O., burst boiler seam. Killed 5 Source: Way's Packet Directory, 1884 - 1994 Way's Packet Directory 1848-1994 : Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America by Frederick, Jr. Way (Compiler), Frederick Packet dire Way, Joseph W. Rutter
Belle Key (steamboat) 328, 329
Belle of the West, the steamship 130
belles 101, 119
descended upon New Orleans 162
Benjamin, J. P., U. S. Senator 250, 254, 288
Benjamin, Messrs 199
bergamot, essence of 112
Bienvenue family 307
bier, “for we stand beside the bier of a lifelong friend” (coffin stand) 191
biology 18
bird store 4
birds,
Baltimore Oriole 18
English sparrows 94
mocking 94
Bishop/Doctor Hawks, 9
rector of Christ Church
blacksmith on Camp 62
blank book and stationary shop 288
blind 61
blockade running 288
Blondeau, Henriette 68, 111
Bloomfield, Major & Mrs. 288
blue grass region, Kentucky 138
boarding house 162
boat, steamer/steamship 22, 86, 94, 130, 328
bombazine 2
bonbons 52
Bonfords, the 117
Bonnecage, Mr. 254
Bonnecaze family (of Baton Rouge) 178
bonnet 61, 84
the missing red 216-244
of corn shucks 252
books:
Aunt Patsy’s Scrap Bag 328
Amy Herbert 16, 20
Essay on Man 18
Guy Mannering 15
Jane Eyre 19,
banned 20
Keith’s Evidences of Phophecy 16
Lamton Parsonage 16
Quentin Durward 15
books,
for construction of flowers 324
reading goody-goody 16
restricted reading 19
written “by a woman so stupid” 328
boot (or rumble of a stagecoach) 138
borrowing 44
botany 18
Boudousquie, Anais 150
Boudford house, the 325
bouquet 80
bow, India style 12
box at the opera, cost of 67
boxes at the opera 65
Boyer, Mme. 10, 150
physical description of 11
boys, sons of guests, deface furniture and mantel 204
Brackenridge, Nancy to wed Aleck 256
Brander, Mr. (merchant) 167
Brander, Caledonia wed Mr. Sager an Engineer 167
Brander, Virginia wed Ed Matthews of New York 167
brandy 52
Breckinridge family 246
Breckinridge, General 128, 288, 302
in Havana 202
Breckinridge, Mrs. 202
related by marriage to the author 202
Breedlove(s), the 36
Brewer, Mrs. 287, 290, 291, 292, 294
Briant, Philoméne 149
bric-a-brac 40, 146
brick dust 40
Bringier, Myrtle wed Gen. Dick Taylor 118, 144
Brooklyn, NY 120
Brooks, Mme Arraline 5
brought his own sheets 200-201
Brown, John 191
brown sugar coffee 25
brown sugar, hogsheads of 252
Brusle landing 182
Buckner, Ellen (Mrs. James B. Eustis) 168
Buckner, H. S. 168
Buckner, Mme. 171
buckram, stocks made of 53, 54
Bullitt, Alec 170
Bullitt, Cuthbert 134, 295
Bullitt, Cuthbert, Mr. & Mrs. 66
Bullitt, Mrs. Cuthbert nee Eliza White 169
Bunker Hill, model of 40
buffet 52
Burke, Glendy 171, 195
Butler in New Orleans 207, 265
butler’s pantry 38
buttermilk, sour 114
Byrne, Sara 149
Byron (music composer) 154
Cajin (sic) settlements 253
cake, pink cocoanut 39
cake maker from Woodville 98
California gold mines 1
calls, social 41
calling cards 50, 51, 56, 166
calling on 56
Camera Lucinda 137
Cammack, A. B. 328
Cammack, Mrs. Charles nee Sarah Smith 168
Camp, Brother (preacher) 205
Camp street 1, 2, 5, 9, 35, 62, 151, 161, 319
doctors & lawyers offices on 160
in 1840 159
men’s clothing store 1
neutral ground, condition of 2, 35, 166
private homes on 160
retail stores not on 160
shopping region moved to 58
cancer 109
candelabra 36
fancy girandole 36
candle,
activities by 36
no shades on 36
cane or walking stick 51, 52
cane juice, boiling 206
canvas work 136
cap 82, 83, 84
Captain’s uniform 270
capture of the Harriet Lane, the 126
card game 175
cardinals (women’s accessory item) 60
Carneal, Sally wed Glendy Burke 171
Carondelet street 165, 327
Carpet slippers 174
carpets,
cleaning of 35
rugs in one piece 35
stored in the garret 35
strewn with tobacco leaves 35
three-ply 32
carriage or coach 68, 95
Carrollton Garden 63
Carrollton Hotel 64
Casimir, Mme on St. Anne street 68
cataracts 61
catarral trouble (sniffles) 174
caterers, none 42, 98
Cathedral (St. Louis) 4, 27
Catholic 7
All Saints Day 326, 329
maids 324
Lent activities 310
pennies, tired of counting 27
wedding practices 87
cattle 64
cemetery 15, 265, 316, 317, 324, 326
“Decoration Day” 326, 329
Cenas family, the 119
Cenas, Charlotte 169
Cenas, Mrs. Hillary P. 169
Champomier, M. 183, 189
Champomier’s sugar report 184
Champromere (alternate spelling of Champomier)
Charleston 254
Chartres street 3, 58, 59, 160, 310, 313
chefs, none 42
Chew, Beverly 168
Chew, Mrs. Morris nee Mary Smith 168
“Children should be seen and not heard” 1
chirography (hand writing) 18
chocolate 26
Choppin family 177
Choppin’s tomb (Doctor) 329
children of 1840, New Orleans 1-6
China berry trees 94, 141
chiné silk 103
Chinn, Eliza Moore, brief biography of 331-332
Chinn, Dick (Eliza’s brother, Richard ) 94, 95, 97
Chinn, Henry (Eliza’s brother) 112, 113
Chinn, Judge (Eliza’s father) 73, 259-260
Chinn, Richard (Eliza’s father) 169, 331-332
Baton Rouge home 211, 262
New Orleans homes 2, 178, 318-319
Canal near Camp gone 319
her father’s law office 319
his father’s residence 178
now a carpenter shop 319
On Customhouse street 318-319
Chambres á louer (Chambers for hire) 318
Christ Church, 69
location; Baronne at Canal 161
rector of 9
Christmas 256
Christophe tea cup, a 32
Christy, Col. 297
Christy, George W. 149
church sewing society 20
cigars 186
Circuit Rider’s Wife, The (book) 204
cistern 39
Civil War 168, 178, 190
Claiborne street 3, 35
Clapp, Doctor, 123
described 121
organist 20
Clapp’s Church, Dr. 120
described 121
fire 121
claret 26
Clay, Henry 48, 104, 113, 319
monument 178
visitor 169
Clay’s statue (Henry) 3
cleaning pots 39
clothing 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 176, 180
accessories 59, 60, 176
also see shoes, sewing, fabrics
apple tree board 102
black alpaca 2
black bombazine 2
black fabric 59
blouse volante 308
bonnet 61, 84, 110
bridal 176
calico 32
cap 82, 83, 84
cap sleeves 85
cardinal (women’s accessory item) 60
chamois skin pantaloons 277, 278
children’s 2
clawhammer coat with tails 53
coat 59
corset board 29, 102
costumes 101
denim, price per yard 278
dress 86
dress cap 83
fan 157
fashion 102
French imports 59
frills and rushings 84
getting dressed 36
gloves 61, 85, 110, 148, 278
white kid 268
gums 17
handkerchief 53
tying coins in corner of 22, 225
hat 25, 51, 55, 60, 61
hat pins 110
headdress 176
high boots 166
hobble skirt 53
loops under shoes, pant leg 53
mammy garments 215
mantillas 59, 60
mop cap of gold lace 82
mourning 2, 59, 66
mourning veil 260
men’s clothing 1, 104
men’s pants 37, 53
muslin, price per yard 278
overalls 278
overcoat 320
pantalettes and pantaloons 2, 59
paper collar 278
papilottes, in 26
parasol 85
party dress 85
pelisse (cloak) 2
rain gear 44, 166
razor 178
remade (recycled) 2, 37
ready-made 1, 37
removable long sleeves 85
repairs 15
shawl 2
shoes 17, 85, 86, 166, 174
shot silk dress 37
slippers 86
slips of brown Holland placed on nude statues 40
stitch described (is the backstitch) 37
stockings 267
stocks made of buckram 53, 54
stomacher 67
Sunday black silk dress 210
tail-coat 37
tailor-cut and sewn at home 37
tobacco pouch 277
“toilets” were simple 67
Turkey-tail fan 157
trousseau 91, 92
umbrella 29, 85
uniform 270
veil, green barége 148
visites (accessory) 60
waterproofs 17
whalebones 102
coach or carriage 68, 95
coachman’s horn 138
cobble stones, stage over 249
cochineal 44
cocoanut, pink 31
coffee 3, 4, 25, 68, 261
Manette’s stall 3, 4, 304
substitute 275
cognomen 9
Cohan, M. M. (attorney) 162
coins: see picayunes, pennies
cold cream 114
color, turkey red 35
colors worn 61
Confederate
blankets for soldiers 301
calaboose
in the and escape from 280-286
sketching the 317
Captain 315
carpets as blankets 302
exiled in Cuba 286, 287
first officer to fall 156
flag, home-made 299
in Parish Prison New Orleans 274
money, value of 271
soldier 270
wounded soldier 266
Confederate gray 268
Congo Square 274, 317
Conrad, Fred 301
Conrey, Peter 165
Constance street 165
convents 7
cook book 43
cooking 39, also see; food, utensils, pots, etc.
cornet 52
corset board 29
cost of fabrics 59
cotton brokers 40
cotton factory near Woodville 95
cotton; guncotton 109
Countess di Brazza 118
Cox, Mrs. 31
crane for hanging pots in open fireplace 39
crawfish ditch 3, 324
cream cheese vendor, Creole 26
creek is up, the 96
Crenshaw, Mr. 268
Creole(s) 25, 26
hospitality 315
crepe lisse 59, 61
Crescent City, The, steamer 86
crevasse 197, 198
Cripps, Dr. Clapp’s organist 20, 121
crochet 14, 16, 22, 148
croquet 142
Cuba, exiles in 286, 287, 289
Cuban bananas 44
Cuban cooking 291
Cuban rebellion 292
guerilla 92
Cubi y Soler, Senor Marino 9
curtains/curtain
Irish point 36
rods described 35
Madras 36
net 36
Nottingham 36, 82
curtsey 12
cuspidor 261
Custom House, the 128
Custom House/Customhouse street 7, 162, 318-319
Daigre, Gilbert 301
dance/dancing 5, 6, 11, 143
a quadrille 48
mazourka 148
polka 148
reel 262
dance/dancing school 5, 37, 104
daguerreotypes 55
first ones taken in N. O. 125
studio location 125
dashboard 320
Dauphin, one wed a 177
Davidson, Thomas Green 251, 254
Davis, Jefferson
family 288
Mr. & Mrs. 126
Monument Association 289
Dawson, Eugene Wythe 151, 152
Day, James I. 121
Daily Comet 302
(Daily) Picayune, of the 143, 150
De Blanc family, the 142
De Bow, J. De B of “review” fame 296, 297
De Choiseul 277
Decoration Day 326, 329
De La Chaise, Philippe wed Victoria Gasquet 117
Delarouelle, Mme 8, 13
De Leon, DDS 4
delinquencies 19
delivery of purchses 60
delivery of invitations 42
demeanor of men 66
demijohn of, a (5 gallons of) 298
Democratic Convention 254
demoiselles 8, 10, 11
dentist 4
deportment 11, 12
De Saulles, Mr. 296
Deslonde, Caroline wed R. W. Adams 117
Deslonde family mammy 214
Deslonde, Mathilde wed Gen Beauregard117
Desrayoux, Mme. 13
Destrehan, Eliza 318
Destrehan Plantation 317, 318
Devoti, M. 11, 12, 13
de Vries, Rosa 68, 70
De Wolf, Young (of Rhode Island) 117
Dick (her brother, Richard ) 94, 95, 97
Dick & Hill, cotton brokers 40
Dick, old Jimmie 40
dinner, pick up, 51
dinner hour 63
discipline 18, 19
dish washing, morning 31
dissected 18
divorce 91
doctor 17, 109, 177, 178,
salary per annum 194
surgical bargain 273
dolls,
wooden described 28
doorknob 50, 56
Doric, the (a ship that sunk) 113
Dougherty, John A. 250
Doussan, Doctor (botanist) 173, 175, 179
Doussan, Mme. 177
dragees 52
drawing lessons 17, 18
drawing room 51
dressed, getting 36
Dreux, Col.; first Confederate officer to fall 156
dried grasshoppers 27
drinks
brandy 52
brown-sugar coffee 25
brown sugar lemonade 269, 270
café au lait 185
catnip tea 276
chocolate 26
claret 26
coffee 3, 68, 261, 276
Manette’s stall 304
substitute 275
finger of Whisky 198
ginger syrup 24
hot ginger tea 17
Madeira 298
mead 23, 24
orange leaf tea (induces perspiration) 276, 277
sassafras tea (thins blood) 277
tea 276
tisane, hot (infusion of dried herbs) 185
water, river water 136; also see, water
whisky 52, 198, 261
wine, a glass of 198
Druthers 266, 268
Dubroca, Mme (sister of Mrs. Judge Eustis)
died of 176
Ducayet, F., Major of Houston, Texas 127, 128
Ducayet family, the 142
Dulcinea 52
Duncan, Mrs. Garnet 26, 90
Duncan, Judge John N. 8, 165
Duncan, Rosa/Rose 8,
wife of Col. William P. Johnston 165
dye,
aniline 59
cochineal red 44, 59
diamond 59
spinach green 44
Early, General 128
eau sucré 43
eclair at Vincent’s 63
editors 170
egg beater 43
embroidered visites, heavily 60
embroideries, Hanburg 82
embroidery 186
Broderie Anglaise 328
canvas work 136
Cross-stitch 295
eyelets on linen, working 328
enameled face 115
enbonpoint (Fr. plumpness) 186
English sparrows 94
engineer 167
epidemic 124
Episcopal clergyman 72, minister 268
Esplanade street 25, 313
essence for seasoning 43
essence of bergamot 112
Eustis, Catherine, Miss 59
Eustis, Celestine, Miss 11
Eustis, Chief Justice 116
Eustis, George 116
Eustis, James B. 168
Eustis, Judge 11
Eustis, Mrs. Judge
died of 176
Exchange Alley 125, 162
Exchange Brokers 161
excursionist 320
exercise 16, 17
extracts 43
extradition treaty 286, 289
exposition, the 271, 320
NOTE “exposition” is the “World’s Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition ” held from late fall 1884 to early spring 1885.
eye glasses 37
eyes 61,
eyes, loss of sight 107
fabrics 2, 59, 67, 193, 277, 278
false teeth 21
fan, a Turkey tail 157
Farmer’s and Trader’s Bank 3
farming utensils 251
fashion, see clothing
Fashion, the steamship 130
fashions,
clothes 102
Paris 59
Favrot, Judge 176, 177
female education 10
Ferrier, Odile 150
figs, Celeste 25
filé 27
Finkle and Lyon machine 252
fireplace 39
First Congregational Church, the 120
first railroad in Louisiana 184
fishing for crawfish 3
flatboats 135, 136
floral decoration 52
floral shipments 52
Florida and Georgia, “everything is pine in” 141
Flournoy family 246
flowers 52, 64, 80, 315, 324
food/foods 25, 26
at hotel 97
baking powder 43
bananas 44
bartering 199
bonbons or dragees 52
borrowing 44
buffet 52
buttermilk 114
cake with pink cocoanut icing 39
capon turkey 199
celery 199
Celeste figs 25
cheese 62
clear sides from KY or MO 194
corn 194
cornmeal 273, 274
cow peas 194
crawfish 3, 324
Creole cream cheese 26
currants 43, 110
dodger (a biscuit) 222
dram and hot soup, a 197
(Apparently it should read “a dram of hot soup”)
dried grasshoppers 27
dye, cochineal 44
eclair at Vincent’s 63
eggnog 51, 52, 55
extracts and essences 43
filé 27
flour 273
gelatine 43
ground spices 43
gumbo 27, 43
isinglass 43
left-overs 25, 26, 194
making ice cream 43
making jelly from calves feet 43
market hours 44
molasses 194, 274
mushrooms 198
olive oil 253
on ships 133, 134
party or reception 42
party left-overs sold on street 25, 26
pecans 199
pick-up dinner 51
pickled pork 194
raisins 43
safes 39
sea food 198
shrimp, buy from neighbors 29
soup, content of 26
spinach used for green dye 44
sugar loaves prepared for use 43
sweet potatoes 275
turkey
capon 199
cooked several ways 161
turnips 194
vanilla bean boiled in milk 43
wine 62
wire safes 39
Foucher, Destour 11
fountain with sylph 308
France 180
fraud conviction 280
free man, Levi Stucker 221
French 8
French, Doctor 254
French Imports 59
French lessons 10
French Market 3
French Quarter 303
iron fretwork 304, 307
French spoken 183
Frey, Mme on Chartres 59, 60
Frigerio, P. A. 149
frogs 166
Fry, General and wife, a Micou of Alabama 287
furniture/furnishings 16, 35, 36, 38
bric-a-brac 40, 92
chair rail, chair boarding 72
dealer 61, 62
decoration, extremes 92, 93
pictures 40
portraits 72
sideboard 52, 55
spoons, secreted from the Union 213
tester or four-poster bed 38
walls 71
Gaines, General E. P. 48, 53, 169, 319
Gaines, Henderson and 253
Gaines, Myra Clark (wife of E. P.) 168, 169
famous legal case of 168
Galt House in Louisville 162
gambler, river boat 135
game
cards 175, 300
Garden, Carrollton 63
Garden District 317
gardens 63, 64, 188
gourmande 26
garments 1, 16, 25, 29, 142,
garret (attic) 35
gas light 36
Gasquet, Victoria wed Philip Delachaise 117
gate, a lynch 314
Gayarré, Charles 169
General or Major, neither just soldier 98
Georgia; “everything is pine in Florida and Georgia ” 141
ghosts 8
gifts 89, 91
Gimarchi, Mr, 10
ginger syrup 24
girandole, fancy candelabra 36
Girod street 9
glasses, eye 37
gloves of nankeen 110
galoshes 166
Galveston 206
goat and goat paths 314
Goddard, Miss
governess from New England 187, 188, 265
Goodman house, the 35
Goodman sister wed George Nathan & moved to Rio Janeiro (sic) 143
Goodman sister wed E. C. Wharton of the (Daily) Picayune 143
Gordon, Mrs. Martin 118
Gottschalk’s Bamboula 116, 151
gourmand 26
governess 265
grammar 18
grasshoppers, dried 27
Grandpré, the family 173, 174
Granet, Mme. 8, 13
Granet, Lina 8
grazing cattle 64
Green, Fanny
wed the Captain 264
the Captain and his wife 271
Green, Mr. (attorney) 264, 267, 269, 271
Green’s Plantation on the Amite (river) 266
Grey, Lieutenant Fairfax, of Texas 47
Grey Eagle, the steamship 130, 131, 132
Grimshaws, the 29
gripsacks 320
grocery, Loveille’s 62
grocery shopping 3, 44
Gross, Miss Lou 148
Gross, Dr. Samuel (surgeon) 148
Grosse Tete 252
Grymes, John R. (attorney) 170
gumbo 43
gun cotton 109
gunboats round the point 264, 271
Gunn’s domestic Medicine 194
gutter (street) 3, 38
Hagan, John 298
Hagan, James 298
Haile, Major Dick (Richard) 96
hair (styles) 5, 62, 101, 110
bandoline 111
basket of fruit 111
chignons 276
essence of bergamont 112
false hair, curls 101
Moniteurs des Dames 101
patchouli 111
pomade, contents of 112
pomatum 111, 112
waterfalls 276
hair dresser 111
Hall, Basil, Captain R. N. 137
Hall, Henry, American Consul in Cuba 293
Hall, Messrs (of Kentucky) 245
Hamilton, Adolphus 104
Hanburg embroideries 82
hand work 16
fancy work; old lady work 136
handkerchief, 53
money tied in corner of 22, 225
harness horses 251
Harney, Doctor 254
Harney House, the hostelries 253
Harriet Lane, the capture of the 126
Hart, Samuel (Major Sam) 250
hat 25, 51, 55, 60
Havana 128, 289, 291
haunted house 8, 9
Hawks, Bishop/Doctor 9, 13
rector of Christ Church
Haynes, Mollie 156
health conditions 107, 109
hearing, loss of 107
heat stroke 107
Hebrew nose 55
hectoring over a price 2
Hemans, Mrs. 157
Henderson and Gaines 253
Henman, Alfred 9
Henmen, Anna Maria 9
Henmen, Mr. 9
Hennen, Caroline (Mrs. Muir) 89
Hennen, Duncan 154; Mrs. Duncan 318
Henry Clay, the steamship 130
herbs 27
Hewitt, Lyler &, 39 Camp St., music publisher 151
Hicky, Colonel 198, 199, 214, 261, 301
high boy 16
Highland fling 6
Hildreth, Messrs (of Kentucky) 245
Hill, Dick and, cotton brokers 40
Hillhouse Avenue 17
(I believe Hillhouse Avenue to be a metaphor for St. Charles Avenue. RC-P)
hobble skirt 53
hogsheads (a unit of measure) 39, 194
of brown sugar 252
Hollister, Henry 104
Holmes, Betsy 331-332
Holmes’ store 160
home, Eliza Ripley’s 2
See Chinn and See Mc Hatton
home-made medicines 114