Name/Title
Party GameEntry/Object ID
JJA.1938.569Description
This is four handwritten pages of Maria Audubon's dinner game. Transcription of the notes is as follows: "A dinner party - 1st couple - the "Widow and the Cat" in Swift's satire beginning 'A widow kept a favorite cat'. 2nd. couple - The original of Brownings 'Lost Leader' and The empress (?) by Diderof to be 'the candle stick bearing the light of the age'. 3rd. couple - he who first caled 'Aspade a spade'. The queen who was called 'The King of France' - 4th. couple - the warrior prophet whose life was saved by a spider weaving its web across a cave. The queen who was called 'The Deborah of the Hugenots'. 5th. couple - The English author of whom it was said, 'he wrote like an angel but talked like poor Poll', The Am. author who signed herself Christopher Crowfield. 6th. couple - The surgeon (?) who led in Rome aged 26. The woman of whom Napoleon said 'she has shafts which would hit a man if he were seated in a rainbow.' 7th. couple - The king to whom the Rosetta stone was inscribed. The lady who was 'The Jessamy Bride.' 8th. couple - He who ran called the 'Last of the knights'. She who wrote under the name of Deborah Dunn. 9th. couple - The donor of a famous sword inscribed. 'From the oldest general in the world to the bravest.' The American woman who received gold medal from the King of Denmark for the discovery of a comet. 10th. couple - The king whose crown was found on a hawthorn bush near a famous battle field. The distinguished rules of the 3rd. Cent., who was the daughter of an Arab chief. 11th. couple - The philosopher who was sold as a slave by the king of sicily. The young & rich woman who was given a sergeant's commission by Gen. Washington. 12th. couple - the king who (???) stature by wearing high heeled shoes. The lady who (?) to write 'John Gilpin'. 13th. couple - The knight who was 'without fear and without reproach.' The poetess known as 'The Lesbain Nightingale' 14 th. couple - The modern authoress wh is the niece fo the apostle of sweetness and light.' 15th. couple - He who was called 'America's Scott'. The poetess called by Stedman 'The passion flower of the century.' I thought these questions might take you (???) we have guessed those marked with a cross. M. Aug. 1, 1907."Collection
L. S. Tyler CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1901 - 1901Notes
Date: August 7, 1901Lexicon
Search Terms
* Recreational Artifacts, Games