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<-- Back to [[Bessie Wallis Warfield]]
 
[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7687&iid=NEWS-MI-IR_DA_GL.1936_10_15_0010&r=an&rc=717,2688,846,2717;865,2688,976,2717&fn=freeman&ln=rasin&st=d&ssrc=&pid=491076618 ''Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan)''], [[Oct 15]], 1936 "Mrs Simpson Made Debut During Early Days of War" : "Most Talked of Woman in World Traces Lineage to Norman Knight"<blockquote>"Mrs Ernest Simpson ..... her friendship with King Edward VIII has made her "The Most Talked-of Woman in the World."</blockquote><blockquote>So Laura Lou Brookman, novelist and staff correspondent of NEA Service, went to Baltimore to find out who Mrs Simpson is, what her girlhood and background were like.  She tells the story of the debhood of "the Yankee at King Edward's Court" in this second of four articles."</blockquote>
 
[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7687&iid=NEWS-MI-IR_DA_GL.1936_10_15_0010&r=an&rc=717,2688,846,2717;865,2688,976,2717&fn=freeman&ln=rasin&st=d&ssrc=&pid=491076618 ''Ironwood Daily Globe (Ironwood, Michigan)''], [[Oct 15]], 1936 "Mrs Simpson Made Debut During Early Days of War" : "Most Talked of Woman in World Traces Lineage to Norman Knight"<blockquote>"Mrs Ernest Simpson ..... her friendship with King Edward VIII has made her "The Most Talked-of Woman in the World."</blockquote><blockquote>So Laura Lou Brookman, novelist and staff correspondent of NEA Service, went to Baltimore to find out who Mrs Simpson is, what her girlhood and background were like.  She tells the story of the debhood of "the Yankee at King Edward's Court" in this second of four articles."</blockquote>
  
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After the holidays, the social rush died away.  Wallis Warfield and six other girls planned a party to break the dullness.  The invitations issued from the only unconventional note in the hitherto strictly conventional pattern of that debutante year.
 
After the holidays, the social rush died away.  Wallis Warfield and six other girls planned a party to break the dullness.  The invitations issued from the only unconventional note in the hitherto strictly conventional pattern of that debutante year.
  
The invitations read:<blockquote>"A hen committee requests the pleasure of your company at a hen dance to be given on the evening of January 8 at 9 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Clark, 1118 North Charles St."
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The invitations read:<blockquote>"A hen committee requests the pleasure of your company at a hen dance to be given on the evening of January 8 at 9 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Clark, 1118 North Charles St."</blockquote>
  
 
There were other cotillions, other parties.  During the two years, following her debut, Wallis Warfield spent almost as much time in Washington and Philadelphia as she did in Baltimore.  She went to Annapolis to football games and dances.  Each year she attended the annual ball given by Major General Barnett and Mrs. Barnett at their country estate, Wakefield Manor, near Washington.  Mrs. Barnett was Wallis' mother's cousin.  Sometimes Wallis went to parties given by another cousin of her mother, Mrs. Alexander Brown of Baltimore, whose daughter married T. Suffern Tailer.
 
There were other cotillions, other parties.  During the two years, following her debut, Wallis Warfield spent almost as much time in Washington and Philadelphia as she did in Baltimore.  She went to Annapolis to football games and dances.  Each year she attended the annual ball given by Major General Barnett and Mrs. Barnett at their country estate, Wakefield Manor, near Washington.  Mrs. Barnett was Wallis' mother's cousin.  Sometimes Wallis went to parties given by another cousin of her mother, Mrs. Alexander Brown of Baltimore, whose daughter married T. Suffern Tailer.

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