April 30. Tonight is the first Thursday night that Mrs. Strong is “at home,” with what results of comfort or of boredom time will tell. . . .
Half-past one next morning. The “reception” went off pleasantly; thirty or forty people – Judge Daly and wife, Albert Gallatin and wife, George Bancroft (who talked Trinitarianism to me with great pertinacity and expatiated on the significance and logical force of the Athanasian Creed), Miss Mary Ulshoeffer in full-blown splendor, the Anthons, Miss Jane Emmet, John Coster, Newbold Edgar, .
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
It’s nice that Mrs. Strong’s reception was a success. Nothing worse than having a social event where nobody shows up but a couple of teenagers hoping for a free meal!