New Digital Resources: First Ladies' Letters: Dolley Madison
The complete correspondence of one of the most important First Ladies of the nineteenth century, Dolley Payne Madison, is available at UCR Libraries! Edited by Dr. Holly Cowan Shulman at the University of Virginia, this digital archive includes letters from 1788 through June 1836.
Enter this fascinating collection through Browse to read the letters by time period; Search to locate letters by text, names, dates, topics, and places; or Contents for a list of letters sorted by date, author, or recipient.
Read about Dolley Madison's story in her own voice. Learn about her loving sisters, her profligate son, her pleasures in Washington as the wife of President James Madison, and her heartache at selling Montpelier. Prof. Catherine Allgor UCR's historian of first ladies used this online resource to write her recent book, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation. See more
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