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Excerpt from Handbook of Official and Social Etiquette, Vol. 5: And Public Ceremonials at Washington; A Manual of Rules, Precedents, and Forms in Vogue in Official and Social Life at the Seat of Government of the United States, for the Guidance and Information of Officials, Diplomats, Strangers, and Residents; Also A

During the early days, society at the Seat of Government was made up of the few resident officials, a small circle of citizens, and occasionally, the families of a few Senators and Representatives. The city was practically a collection of isolated villages widely separated and at certain seasons almost inaccessible. In the vicinity of the Navy Yard, the Arsenal, the Capitol and the President's House, as many communities had sprung into existence through the necessities of public business. Under such circumstances social entertainments were of rare occurrence and imposed upon the participants no small degree of inconvenience. This condition of things is now changed. The Capital, within a few days' ride of the remotest sections of the country, with its beautiful parks, broad avenues and magnificent public edifices, its Chief Magistrate, its Congress, its Supreme Judiciary, its attractions of art, its libraries, museums, institutions of science and learning, its churches and asylums, and its places of amusement, has become a resort for citizens of culture, means and leisure from all parts of the country, and a centre of attraction to foreigners from all parts of the globe visiting the United States. Official and social intercourse at the Capital is governed by rules and usages, some of which, in their origin, are contemporaneous with the foundation of the Government, while others have been evolved out of the circumstances and necessities of the occasion.

In the compilation of the following pages the best sources of information, including many early original documents in manuscript and print, have been consulted. As a work of this scope is entirely new and its necessity great, reducing as it does the etiquette of official and social life at the Capital to somewhat of a formula, the compiler would be pleased at any time to receive by correspondence any comments or suggestions, with a view to the perfection of his labors in future editions.

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