An early entry, that of February 17, 1829, reads: "Died this morning, Simon, the celebrated cook.

He was a respectable man, who has for many years been the fashionable cook in New York, and his loss will be felt on all occasions of large dinner and evening parties, unless it should be found that some suitable shoulders should be ready to receive the mantle of this distinguished _cuisinier_." When Hone was not entertaining at his own home or being entertained at somebody else's, he was trying out the fare at some one of the public hostelries.
Date of December 18, 1830, there is reference to a familiar name.
"Moore, Giraud, and I went yesterday to dine at Delmonico's, a French _restaurateur_, in William Street, which I had heard was on the Parisian plan, and very good.

We satisfied our curiosity, but not our appetites." We are prone to regard the Civil War as an affair of the sixties.

Hone was one of those who perceived the threat of it thirty years before.
Always a bitter political opponent of Jackson, there was one occasion when he was loud in his applause.

The South Carolina Convention had passed a number of resolutions regarded by Hone as rank treason, and the beginning of rebellion.