This "lady's ticket" to John Howard Payne's "Obsequies" or funeral rites, is from 1883, the year Payne's remains were reinterred in the United States. Payne died in Tunis during his diplomatic service, but W. W. Corcoran of Washington D.C. had his remains exhumed and reinterred in the United States. Payne was brought first by steamer to New York, where he lay in state at City Hall, before being brought by hearse to Oak Hill Cemetery, which Corcoran owned and developed.