1James Madison: Notes from State Papers, December 1830 (Madison Papers)
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...Mr. A was ushered into a room where the Presidents aid’s were in waiting, and I was introduced by the President who met me at door into the Circular Hall where Mrs. Monroe was seated with Mrs. Hay and Miss Gouverneur. She rose immediately and received me with much ease and affability; I was followed by the Ladies of the heads of Department who had received orders to be there at half past
20 Mrs. Hay called this morning the drawing rooms are to take place once a week and they are to begin New Years day. Mrs. Monroe excuses herself on the plea of ill health from returning any visits and says it is...
Among the novelties of the day I must tell you that Mrs. Hay had an invited party at the great house last Eveng among whom were some of the
...have a suitable companion—It is so easy to contract unsocial habits and so difficult to correct them—Mrs. Hersants makes a fine little Wife and is quite Matronly to use the fashionable expression. Mrs. Hays long expected is not come yet though hourly expected—Mrs. Monroe has been very sick—Poor Emily Monro is again confined to her bed and likely to be so for many Months in consequence of...
Hay had one last Eveng.—
...unless notice be given six Months before the expiration of the three years, by either party to the other, with a payment of fifty dollars, the Lease is to continue two years longer—But all the Stock of Hay, English or Salt, is to be consumed on the farm, and all the manure made upon it to be used upon the farm itself—Of the farm House, the chambers reserved for the Libraries of my father...
8To John Adams from George Hay, 12 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
Geo: Hay—
9To John Adams from Catherine Farnham Hay, 4 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Catharine Hay
10To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 10 December 1818 (Adams Papers)
December 10 Recieved a charming visit from Mr. Bagot, who sat with me an hour and chatted very agreably. Not a word about Mrs. Hay—who is giving rise to a great deal of conversation about rank and station—She has assumed a tone with the Corps Diplomatique, which places them and herself in the most unpleasant ...the gay throng at about eight o’clock—Mrs. Hay having accepted the invitation on the...