- Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
- Title:
- Few, Frances, Journal
- Date of Original:
- 1808/1809
- Subject:
- United States--Politics and government--19th century
Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Madison, James, 1751-1836--Inauguration, 1809 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Journal of a winter in Washington, D.C. kept by Frances Few (Chrystie), b. 1789 - d. 1885
Frances Few was the daughter of William Few, who represented Georgia at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and was elected as Georgia's first United States senator under the new constitution. Few moved to New York City in 1799 when Frances was ten. In October 1808, when Frances was nineteen, she accompanied her aunt, Hannah Nicholson Gallatin, and uncle, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, to Washington, D.C. for the winter. She kept a journal for her sister Mary describing her experiences. Frances describes social events in Washington, including dining with President Thomas Jefferson and Vice-President James Madison and Mrs. Madison, meeting the British and French ambassadors, visiting Congress, evening calls to the Gallatin home by various Democratic Republican congressmen, the 1809 New Year's Day reception at the President's residence (the White House), and the inauguration of President Madison on March 4, 1809. Frances describes the physical appearance and mannerisms of the people she encounters, and catalogs her extensive reading. Endnotes in the transcript identifying persons mentioned in the journal identify only the office or position they held at the time the journal was written. - Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/adhoc/id/2782
- Rights Holder:
- Users may download the images for personal or educational use
- Original Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
William Few Collection, ac. 1955-0101M, Georgia Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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