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- Title
The Maps of James and Dolley Madison: From Public Policy to Personal Possession.
- Authors
SHULMAN, HOLLY COWAN
- Abstract
As cited in Ethel Stephens Arnett, Mrs. James Madison: The Incomparable Dolley (Greensboro, N.C., 1972), 119; Dolley Payne Todd Madison to James Madison, 1 Nov. [1805]; Dolley Payne Todd Madison to James Madison, 1 Nov. [ 1805], quoted in Elizabeth Fries Ellet, The Court Circles of the Republic (New York, 1975), 86; Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortland Van Dyke Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-Town and Washington City (Richmond, Va., 1958), 271. Buried in the collection of Dolley Madison's letters and documents that reside at the Library of Congress there is a yellowed piece of paper listing artwork and maps. It is unlikely that Dolley met Melish; it is more probable that James told Dolley about Melish, that the famous cartographer's work was a matter of discussion among their friends, and that she was at least somewhat conversant with his work. See Conover Hunt-Jones, Dolley and the "Great Little Madison" (Washington, D.C., 1977); Margaret Brown Klapthor, Benjamin and Dolley Madison Decorate the White House (Washington, D.C., 1965); Lance Humphries, "The Madisons as Art Collectors and Patrons", in the possession of James Madison's Montpelier; Catherine Allgor, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (New York, 2006); David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman, The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison (Charlottesville, Va., 2003); Humphries, "The Madisons as Art Collectors", 4-5.
- Subjects
MADISON, James, 1751-1836; PERSONAL belongings; GOVERNMENT policy; GOSSIP; MAPS; ENGRAVING; FRENCH &; Indian War, 1754-1763
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2022, Vol 130, Issue 4, p260
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article