We would like to pin down the date of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's Gilded
Age "dog's dinner" and see some contemporary accounts (and
condemnations of it) in the press. Where could we find these two
pieces of information?
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According to Alistair Cooke in his "America," the idea originated with
Harry Lehr, who organized and promoted the "bow-wows' banquet." Lehr
was married to Elizabeth Drexel of Philadelphia, who later wrote a
book entitled "King Lehr and the Gilded Age" about her late husband
(who died on January 4, 1929). Cleveland Amory probably wrote about
the party in "Last Resort."

Some information about Harry and Elizabeth Lehr:

Lady Decies (she remarried)
http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Boldini_Giovanni/LadyDecies.htm

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