Margaret Bayard Smith papers, 1789-1874 (bulk 1796-1840).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 3,600 items; 11 containers; 8 microfilm reels; 4.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Boyd, Maria Bayard, 1779-1869 -- Correspondence
- Kirkpatrick, Jane Bayard, 1772-1851 -- Correspondence
- Middleton, Mary Hering -- Correspondence
- Pichon, A. Emilie -- Correspondence
- Quincy, Eliza Susan Morton, 1773-1850 -- Correspondence
- Smith, Samuel Harrison, 1772-1845 -- Correspondence
- Elections -- United States
- Presidents -- United States -- Election
- Monticello (Va.) -- History
- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- War of 1812
- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
- Authors
- Social leaders
- Microfilm edition available, no. 18,941.
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, journals, and commonplace books. Chiefly correspondence between Smith and her sisters, Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick and Maria Bayard Boyd, and her husband, journalist and banker Samuel Harrison Smith. Other correspondents include Mary Hering Middleton, A. Emilie Pichon, and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. Topics covered include presidential elections, the British occupation of Washington in 1814, visits to Monticello, Va., and social life in Washington, D.C.
Microfilm edition available, no. 18,941.
Microfilm edition produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984.
Social leader, author, and prominent Washingtonian.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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