United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.036371808/1809Journal of a winter in Washington, D.C. kept by Frances Few (Chrystie), b. 1789 - d. 1885Frances 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.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/Ad Hoc CollectionWilliam Few Collection, ac. 1955-0101M, Georgia ArchivesUnited States--Politics and government--19th centuryWashington (D.C.)--Description and travelMadison, James, 1751-1836Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Madison, James, 1751-1836--Inauguration, 1809Few, Frances, JournalText