Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . a yearlater, — that given in 1860 to the then Princeof Wales, the late Edward VII of England, —that Mrs. Otiss mantua-makers designed forher the famous gown of old lace and purplevelvet shown in the life-size portrait of her byGeorge P. A. Healy herewith reproduced. The first waltz ever danced on an Americanfloor had for its participants Mrs. HarrisonGray Otis and Lorenzo Papanti. Since theannals of Boston society were for years boundup with the dancing academy of the Papantis,— father and son,
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . a yearlater, — that given in 1860 to the then Princeof Wales, the late Edward VII of England, —that Mrs. Otiss mantua-makers designed forher the famous gown of old lace and purplevelvet shown in the life-size portrait of her byGeorge P. A. Healy herewith reproduced. The first waltz ever danced on an Americanfloor had for its participants Mrs. HarrisonGray Otis and Lorenzo Papanti. Since theannals of Boston society were for years boundup with the dancing academy of the Papantis,— father and son, — we may well enough pausehere to consider this mans romantic of a noble house of Colonna, LorenzoPapanti, because a younger son, became anofficer in the royal guard of the Duke of Tus-cany as a means to making his own way inthe world. While in this capacity he com-mitted a political misdemeanor which soonobliged him to flee his native land in the night. 1 Characterized by Wendell Phillips as a riding-master on areally good horse, heroically staring up Commonwealth MKS. HAKRISON GRAY OTIS. From fhr /xiintinjj hi/ (1. ]. ,1. Hcah/, in ihc possession of tlu liostonian tSocictij.
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