Holly Berry is a short set dance apparently composed by
London dance teacher Mrs. Nicholas Henderson in the
1850s. Its first known appearance is in the second
edition of her Etiquette for Dancing, published in the
1850s. The dance was also included in Elias Howe's
American dancing master and ball-room prompter,
published in Boston in 1862, which appears on the
Library of Congress website here. Howe's manual,
unusually, includes a specific credit to Mrs.
Henderson.
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