From James Madison to Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., and Sophia Wright Meigs, 10 November 1816 (Abstract)
To Return Jonathan Meigs Jr., and Sophia Wright Meigs, 10 November 1816 (Abstract)
§ To Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. and Sophia Wright Meigs. 10 November 1816. “Mr. & Mrs. Madison request the favor of Govr. & Mrs. Meigs to dine with them on Thursday next, at 4 o’clock.”
RC (offered for sale by Early American, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., March 2017, lot 83). 1 p. Printed invitation, with blank spaces for name, date, and time, filled in Dolley Madison’s hand, and addressed by her. At the bottom margin in an unidentified hand: “This invitation given Mary Rhodes by ‘Daphne’ the indian servant in the Meigs home.”