Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton papers

LC control no.	mm 80051862
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau, 1775?-1865. » More like this
Main title	Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton papers, 1793-1861.
Description	7 items. 7 containers.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Biography/History note	Wife of architect William Thornton.
Summary	Seven bound volumes containing diaries, journals, essays, log of household visitors, daily log of activities, household accounts, silhouettes of unidentified people, and other papers primarily describing social life in Washington, D.C., with extensive detail about housekeeping and expense matters. There are gaps in the diaries, with a major one occurring during the years 1816-1827. Includes entries relating to the schedule and work of Thornton's husband, architect William Thornton, on the east elevation of the Capitol, correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, visits to President Jefferson's home, a smallpox outbreak, paving of Pennsylvania Avenue, the British invasion of Washington, D.C., in 1814, the gun explosion on the steamship Princeton in 1844, inauguration of President James K. Polk in 1845, return of land to Virginia from Washington, D.C., in 1846, trips to Virginia, North Carolina, and Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Thornton's years spent in Tortola, Virgin Islands. A collection of autographs includes signatures of Henry Clay, James Madison, and John Peter Van Ness.
Notes	Collection material in English and French. MSS51862
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007091>
Acquisition source	Gift, J. Henley Smith, 1904.
Additional formats	Microfilm edition available, no. 13,818. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.
Subjects	Clay, Henry, 1777-1852--Autographs. » More like this Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. » More like this Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence. » More like this Madison, James, 1751-1836--Autographs. » More like this Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849--Inauguration, 1845. » More like this Thornton, William, 1759-1828. » More like this Van Ness, John Peter, 1770-1846--Autographs. » More like this Princeton (Steamship) » More like this United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) » More like this Smallpox. » More like this Massachusetts--Description and travel. » More like this Newburyport (Mass.)--Description and travel. » More like this North Carolina--Description and travel. » More like this Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) » More like this Tortola (V.I.)--Social life and customs. » More like this United States--History--War of 1812--Campaigns. » More like this Virgin Islands--Social life and customs. » More like this Virginia--Boundaries--Washington (D.C.) » More like this Virginia--Description and travel. » More like this Washington (D.C.)--Boundaries--Virginia. » More like this Washington (D.C.)--History--Capture by the British, 1814. » More like this Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs. » More like this
Local shelving no.	MMC-3412 Microfilm 13,818-2N-2P-2P-2P
Language code	eng fre
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
Links	Finding aid: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007091> Finding aid (PDF): <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007091.3>