The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Smart Set, by Clyde Fitch

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: The Smart Set
Correspondence & Conversations

Author: Clyde Fitch

Release Date: March 10, 2009 [eBook #28303]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SMART SET***

E-text prepared by David Garcia and the Project Gutenberg Online
Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images
generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library
(http://kdl.kyvl.org/)

Note: Images of the original pages are available through
Kentuckiana Digital Library. See
http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;xc=1&idno=b92-203-30752381&view=toc

THE SMART SET

Correspondence
&
Conversations

by

CLYDE FITCH

1897

Chicago & New York
Herbert S. Stone & Co

Copyright, 1897, by
Herbert S. Stone & Co.

TO

"MUMSY"

TO WHOM I OWE EVERYTHING FROM THE LITTLE
BEGINNING OF MY LIFE

NEW YORK
1897

The Correspondence and the Conversations

PAGE

THE MAKEWAY BALL 3

THE PLAINTIFF 43

THE SUMMER 53

THE CHILDREN 65

MATERNITY 85

A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION 105

WAGNER, 1897 113

ART 131

SORROW 139

THE THEATRE 149

THE OPERA 159

A PERFECT DAY 167

THE WESTINGTON'S BOHEMIAN DINNER 175

THE GAMBLERS 187

The Makeway Ball

Five Letters

I. From Wm. H. Makeway
II. From Mrs. Makeway
III. From Miss Makeway
IV. From a Guest
V. From an Uninvited

The Smart Set

I

_From Wm. H. Makeway to Joseph K. Makeway, of Denver._

New York, Jan. 12, 189--.

My Dear Brother