Description: First Forty Years of Washington Society: Portrayed By the Family Letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) From the Collection of Her Grandson J. Henley Smith by Margaret Bayard Smith; edited by Gaillard Hunt New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. 1st edition. Gilt titled cloth hardcover; spine head edge chipping ; vintage label mounted front endpaper (text in French); else good top edge gilt; 8vo. xii, 424pp. with index; Illus. (Washington DC, social life, manners and customs, biographies) Born in 1778, Margaret Bayard Smith was a highly intellectual woman "read widely in the classics, sciences, and literature" according to The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Despite her capabilities, she was confined to a role of domesticity as was the practice of the time, but she used that role to befriend many of the prominent political families of Washington D.C., eventually becoming regular guests at Jefferson's white house and the home of James and Dolley Madison, among others. She outlined many of these relationships and her thoughts on the budding politics of D.C. in letters to her sisters, kept by her son, then eventually passed on to her grandson, and now belong to the library of congress. They give a fascinating point of view of Washington society and it's up and coming politicians from a woman who had a front row seat to its workings.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Margaret Bayard Smith
Publisher: Scribner
Topic: American (US)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1906
