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Authors: Bruce Chadwick
11
. Pitch,
Burning of Washington
, p. 162.
12
. Allgor,
Perfect Union
, p. 323.
13
. Paul F. Boller Jr.,
Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 43.
14
.
National Intelligencer
, September 7, 8, and 28, 1814;
National Intelligencer
, October 28, 1814.
15
.
Federal Republican
, January 12, 1815.
16
. Dolley Madison to Hanna Gallatin, December 26, 1814, in DMDE.
17
. Howard,
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's War
, p. 271.
18
. Thomas Johnson to Dolley Madison, January 19, 1815, in DMDE.
19
. Allgor,
Perfect Union
, p. 332.
20
. Paul Jennings,
A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
(Brooklyn, NY: George C. Beadle, 1865), p. 17.
21
. Charles Ingersoll,
Historical Sketch of the Second War between the United States and Great Britain
(Philadelphia, PA: Lea and Blanchard, 1849), 2:65.
22
. Jennings,
Colored Man's Reminiscences
, pp. 17â18.
23
. Rutland,
Presidency of James Madison
, p. 187.
24
. Constance McLaughlin Green,
Washington: Village and Capital, 1800â1878
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962), 1:75â80.
25
.
London Times
, April 1817.
26
. Rutland,
Presidency of James Madison
, pp. 192â93.
27
. Henry Adams,
History of the United States during the First Administration of James Madison
(New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1986), 9 vol. edition, 9:220â21, 240â41.
CHAPTER 22. HOME TO MONTPELIER
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1
. James Smith, ed.,
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776â1826
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), 2:1167.
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2
. Margaret Bayard Smith to Mrs. Kirkpatrick, March 13, 1814, in ibid., p. 94.
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3
. Margaret Bayard Smith to Susan Bayard Smith, February 26, 1809, in ibid., pp. 54â57.
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4
. William Eustis to James Madison, 1823, in
The Writings of James Madison
, by James Madison and Gaillard Hunt (New York: Russell and Russell, 1968), 9:135.
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5
. Ralph Ketcham,
James Madison: A Biography
(New York: Macmillan, 1971), p. 355.
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6
. Federalist No. 14, in
The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series, Presidential Series, Retirement Series, Personal Papers
, ed. Robert Brugger et al. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986) (hereafter cited as
PJM
), 10:288.
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7
. Irving Brant,
James Madison
(Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941â1946), 6:420; James Paulding, “An Unpublished Sketch of James Madison,”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
67 (October 1959): 435.
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8
. Gaillard Hunt,
Life in America One Hundred Years Ago
(New York: Harper Brothers, 1914), p. 19.
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9
. John Quincy Adams to James Madison, December 6, 1816, in Washburn Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, 9:12.
10
. Eliza Collins Lee to Dolley Madison, March 4, 1817, in Dolley Madison Papers,
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, digital collection, doc. 40; William Johnson Jr., to Dolley Madison, 1817, in Dolley Madison Digital Edition, ed. Holly C. Shulman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Online Rotunda Edition, 2010â2013) (hereafter referred to as DMDE).
11
. Lucia Kantzow to Dolley Madison, June 26, 1818, in DMDE.
12
. Ketcham,
James Madison
, p. 619.
13
. Katherine Anthony,
Dolley Madison: Her Life and Times
(New York: Doubleday, 1949), p. 268.
14
. Ibid.
15
. Dolley Madison to Anthony Morris, August 20, 1839, in DMDE.
16
. Ibid.; Margaret Bayard Smith to Mrs. Boyd, August 17, 1828, in
The First Forty Years of Washington Society
, by Margaret Bayard Smith, ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906), pp. 232â37; H. D. Gilpin to his father, September 16, 1827, in
Virginia Magazine of Biography and History
86 (October 1968): 449â70.
17
. Paulding, “Unpublished Sketch of James Madison,” pp. 432â37.
18
. Dolley Madison to a niece, in Anthony,
Dolley Madison
, p. 264.
19
. Ibid.
20
. Matthew Hyland,
Montpelier and the Madisons: House, Home and American Heritage
(Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007), p. 83.
21
. James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, July 18, 1793, and July 20, 1793, in
PJM
, 15:113.
22
. Ralph Ketcham,
The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2009), pp. 36â37.
23
. Abigail Mayo to Dolley Madison, February 23, 1804, in DMDE; Dolley Madison to her niece Dolley Madison, March 10, 1830, in DMDE; Dolley Madison to Judith Smith, March 1, 1800, in DMDE.
24
. Robert Scott,
Diary of Robert Scott
, October 26, 1829, private collection, Versailles, Kentucky; Ketcham,
James Madison
, p. 637.
25
. Catherine Allgor,
The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), p. 162.
26
. Ketcham,
Madisons at Montpellier
, pp. 32â33.
27
. Hyland,
Montpelier and the Madisons
, p. 50.
CHAPTER 23. A NEW LIFE AMID THE FORESTS
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1
. Phoebe Morris to Dolley Madison, September 1824, in Dolley Madison Digital Edition, ed. Holly C. Shulman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Online Rotunda Edition, 2010â2013) (hereafter referred to as DMDE).
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2
. Dolley Madison to John Jackson, November 27, 1824, in ibid.; Frances Wright to Dolley Madison, July 26, 1825, in ibid.
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3
. Noel Gerson,
The Velvet Glove: A Life of Dolley Madison
(Nashville: Thomas and Nelson, 1975), p. 235; Matthew Hyland,
Montpelier and the Madisons: House, Home, and American Heritage
(Charleston, SC: History Press, 2007), p. 59.
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4
. Eliza Collins Lee to Dolley Madison, March 30, 1819, in DMDE.
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5
. Dolley Madison to Edward Coles, September 5, 1819, in Dolley Madison Papers, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, digital collection, doc. 33.
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6
. Dolley Madison to Mary Cutts, March 13, 1833, in DMDE.
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7
. Dolley Madison to Mary Cutts, August 1, 1833, in ibid.
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8
. Dolley Madison to Mary Cutts, November 4, 1833, in ibid.
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9
. Dolley Madison to Richard Cutts, August 11, 1833, in ibid.
10
. Dolley Madison to Mary Cutts, March 1833, in ibid.
11
. James Paulding, “An Unpublished Sketch of James Madison,”
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
67 (October 1959): 432â37.
12
. Virginia Moore,
The Madisons: A Biography
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), p. 393.
13
. Dolley Madison to Mary Cutts, August 1, 1833, in DMDE.
14
. Dolley Madison to Richard Cutts, 1824, in ibid.
15
. Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, June 6, 1829, in ibid.
16
. James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, February 24, 1826, in
The Writings of James Madison
, by James Madison and Gaillard Hunt (New York: Russell and Russell, 1968), 9:244.
17
. Dolley Madison to Richard Cutts, August 16, 1832, in DMDE.
18
. James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, June 1831, in Madison and Hunt,
Writings of James Madison
, 4:565.
19
. Ibid.
20
. James Madison to J. K. Paulding, April 1831, in ibid., 4:173â77.
21
. Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, July 6, 1826, in DMDE.
22
. Ralph Ketcham,
The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2009), pp. 133â39.
23
. Dolley Madison to Sarah “Sally” Coles Stevenson, February 20, 1820, in DMDE.
24
. Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, August 22, 1820, in ibid.
25
. Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, April 3, 1818, in ibid.
26
. Margaret Page to Dolley Madison, August 19, 1817, in ibid.
27
. Jackie Blount to Dolley Madison, July 28, 1817, in ibid.
28
. Kitty Rush to Dolley Madison, November 24, 1820, in ibid.
29
. Maria Scott to Dolley Madison, August 30, 1820, in ibid.; Ellen Coolidge to Dolley Madison, April 24, 1820, in ibid.; Dolley Madison to Eliza Collins Lee, August
27, 1820, in ibid.; Dolley Madison to Eliza Collins Lee, April 21, 1819, in ibid.; Dolley Madison to Caroline Eustis, January 22, 1819, in ibid.
30
. Ellen Coolidge to Dolley Madison, April 24, 1820, in ibid.
31
. Dolley Madison to Sarah “Sally” Coles Stevenson, February 1820, in ibid.
32
. Eliza Longueville to Dolley Madison, November 15, 1823, in ibid.
33
. Dolley Madison to her niece Dolley, March 30, 1830, in ibid.
34
. General James Taylor to Dolley Madison, January 2, 1831, in ibid.; Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, June 6, 1829, in ibid.
35
. Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, April 23, 1827, in ibid.
36
. James Smith, ed.,
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776â1826
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), pp. 233â37.
37
. Harriet Martineau,
Retrospect of Western Travel
(1838; repr., New York: Greenwood Press, 1969), 1:150â51, 189â99.
38
. Ibid.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Ibid.
42
. Ibid.
43
. James Madison to Ed Coles, August 27, 1834, in Madison and Hunt,
Writings of James Madison
, 9:542.
44
. Martineau,
Retrospect of Western Travel
, 1:150â51.
45
. James Madison to Hubbard Taylor, August 15, 1835, in Madison and Hunt,
Writings of James Madison
, 4:577â584; Ketcham,
Madisons at Montpelier
, pp. 156â57.
46
. Dolley Madison to Mary Cutts, March 10, 1835, and October 1835, in DMDE.
47
. Charles Ingersoll, “A Visit to Mr. Madison,” in Ketcham,
Madisons at Montpelier
, pp. 165â71.
48
. Ibid.
49
. Catherine Allgor,
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
(New York: Henry Holt, 2006), p. 357; Dolley Madison to Edward Coles, April 16, 1834, in DMDE; Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, May 15, 1832, in DMDE.
50
. Hyland,
Madisons at Montpelier
, p. 59.
51
. Sally d'Yrugo to Dolley Madison, June 20, 1812, in Dolley Madison Papers, digital, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, doc. 39.
52
. Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, May 1812, in DMDE.
CHAPTER 24. PAYNE TODD
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1
. Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, April 12, 1823, in Dolley Madison Digital Edition, ed. Holly C. Shulman (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Online Rotunda Edition, 2010â2013) (hereafter referred to as DMDE).
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2
. John Quincy Adams,
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams
(Philadelphia, PA: J. P. Lippincott, 1874â1877), note on September 18, 1814, 3:32; Catherine Allgor,
The Queen of America: Mary Cutts's Life of Dolley Madison
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), p. 183.
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3
. Ralph Ketcham,
James Madison: A Biography
(New York: Macmillan, 1971), pp. 600â601; Katherine Anthony,
Dolley Madison: Her Life and Times
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949), pp. 251â55.
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4
. Anthony,
Dolley Madison
, p. 252.
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5
. Eliza Collins to Dolley Madison, July 15, 1817, in DMDE; Fanny Rose to Dolley Madison, March 19, 1822, in DMDE.
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6
. Anthony,
Dolley Madison
, pp. 361â63.
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7
. Ibid., p. 251.
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8
. Virginia Moore,
The Madisons: A Biography
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), p. 380.
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9
. A. Morris to Dolley Madison, July 14, 1820, in DMDE.
10
. Phoebe Morris to Dolley Madison, July 15, 1820, in ibid.
11
. Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, July 20, 1832, in ibid.
12
. Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, May 24, 1821, in ibid.
13
. Ibid.; Edward Coles to Dolley Madison, February 22, 1832, in DMDE.
14
. Sophie Bache to Dolley Madison, September 25, 1825, in ibid.
15
. Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, April 27, 1828, in ibid.
16
. Sarah “Sally” Coles Stevenson to Dolley Madison, December 1820, in ibid.
17
. Edward Coles to Dolley Madison, February 22, 1816, in ibid.
18
. Dolley Madison to Payne Madison, December 2, 1824, in ibid.
19
. Dolley Madison to Anna Cutts, December 1822, in ibid.; Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, December 2, 1834, in ibid.
20
. Dolley Madison to Payne Todd, July 16, 1827, in ibid.