TY  - GEN
AU  - Thornton,Anna Maria Brodeau
TI  - Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton papers,
KW  - Clay, Henry,
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas,
KW  - Madison, James,
KW  - Polk, James K.
KW  - Thornton, William,
KW  - Van Ness, John Peter,
KW  - Princeton (Steamship)
KW  - United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Smallpox
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Newburyport (Mass.)
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Tortola (British Virgin Islands)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - War of 1812
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Virgin Islands
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Capture by the British, 1814
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 13,818; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1967
N2  - Seven bound volumes containing diaries, journals, essays, log of household visitors, daily log of activities, household accounts, silhouettes of unidentified people, and other papers primarily describing social life in Washington, D.C., with extensive detail about housekeeping and expense matters.  There are gaps in the diaries, with a major one occurring during the years 1816-1827; Includes entries relating to the schedule and work of Thornton's husband, architect William Thornton, on the east elevation of the Capitol, correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, visits to President Jefferson's home, a smallpox outbreak, paving of Pennsylvania Avenue, the British invasion of Washington, D.C., in 1814, the gun explosion on the steamship Princeton in 1844, inauguration of President James K. Polk in 1845, return of land to Virginia from Washington, D.C., in 1846, trips to Virginia, North Carolina, and Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Thornton's years spent in Tortola, Virgin Islands.  A collection of autographs includes signatures of Henry Clay, James Madison, and John Peter Van Ness
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007091
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007091.3
ER  -