Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Contents | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Margaret Bayard Smith papers, 1789-1874 |
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Span Dates | 1789-1874 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1796-1840) |
ID No. | MSS40436 |
Creator | Smith, Margaret Bayard, 1778-1844 |
Extent | 3,600 items ; 11 containers ; 4.4 linear feet ; 8 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Social leader, author, and prominent Washingtonian. Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, and commonplace books consisting mainly of family correspondence between Smith and her sisters, Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick and Maria Bayard Boyd, and her husband, journalist and banker, Samuel Harrison Smith (1772-1845). |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011225 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm82040436 |