scott
22 January 2023
December, before the 20th – Livy and Sam had enjoyed the Mother Goose performance at the Colt Party on Nov. 24. Livy wrote of it in her diary on Nov. 30 and soon planned her own such performance using James Elliott’s Mother Goose Set to Music. Sam’s notebook lists Piper’s Son as Mr. Carter; Dame Trot as Anne Trumbull; Emily as Mother Goose; Miss Barnard as Miss Muffett, Mr. Carpenter as Little Boy Blue; Adams & Miss Trobridge as Blue Beard & wife; and others. Moncure Conway wrote on Dec. 20: “Nor shall I forget the Mother Goose Party” [Gribben 219; MTNJ 2: 378; Salsbury 112].
Entry Date
Dec 01, 1879 - Mon