Margaret Bayard Smith papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3600
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Election; Presidents; Elections; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 18,941.

Microfilm edition produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984.

Gift, Harold Dillingham, Baldwin Wood, Alice Smith, and Henrietta Smith, 1910.

Purchase, 1944.

Social leader, author, and prominent Washingtonian.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.