They are Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The Diamond Wedding," and "Nothing to Wear," and the William Allen Butler verses, beginning: "Miss Flora McFlimsey, of Madison Square Has made three separate journeys to Paris.
And her father assures me, each time she was there, That she and her friend Mrs.Harris (Not the lady whose name is so famous in history, But plain Mrs.H., without romance or mystery) Spent six consecutive weeks, without stopping, In one continuous round of shopping--" were the very spirit of the Fifth Avenue of that day.

Butler wrote the poem in 1857, in a house in Fourteenth Street, within a stone's throw of the Avenue.

After finishing it, and reading it to his wife, he took it one evening to No.

20 Clinton Place, to try it on his friend, Evart A.
Duyckinck.

Not only did the verses themselves have a Fifth Avenue inspiration and origin, but the woman who later claimed that she had written the nine first lines and thirty of the concluding lines, told in her story that she had dropped the manuscript while passing through a crowd at Fifth Avenue and Madison Square.