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Margaret Bayard) from the Collection of Her Grandson J Library of Congress The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith THE FIRST FORTY YEARS OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY 5 55 Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard). After the portrait by Charles Bird King, in the possession of her grandson, J. Henley Smith, Washington. THE FIRST FORTY YEARS OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY PORTRAYED BY THE FAMILY LETTERS OF MRS. SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH (MARGARET BAYARD) FROM THE COLLECTION OF HER GRANDSON J. HENLEY SMITH EDITED BY GAILLARD HUNT ILLUSTRATED LC CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK:::::: 1906 Copy 3 F194 .S65 Copy 3 COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published November, 1906. The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.40262 Library of Congress 104116 07 LC PREFATORY NOTE During the first forty years of its existence the city of Washington had a society, more definite and real than it has come to have in later days. The permanent residents, although appurtenant to the changing official element, nevertheless furnished the framework which the larger and more important social life used to build upon, and the result was a structure of society tolerably compact and pleasing and certainly interesting. It was emphatically official, but it did not include the lower class officials, who found their recreation for the most part at the street resorts, and its tone was dignified and wholesome. At any rate, it was genuine and national, even if it was crude, and the day of the all-powerful rich man and his dominance in social life had not yet arrived. Samuel Harrison Smith, a writer and editor in Philadelphia, came to the city in the year 1800, soon after the government had moved there. He was the son of Jonathan Bayard Smith, a member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Articles of Confederation and Colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment during the Revolution; and although he was only 28 years old he established the first national newspaper printed in America, which he called The National Intelligencer. Just before his paper was started he returned to Philadelphia, and on September 29, 1800, married his second cousin, Margaret Bayard, and their wedding journey was from Philadelphia to Washington where they lived the rest of their lives; and for vi forty years their house was the resort of the most interesting characters in national public life. The first number of The National Intelligencer appeared October 31, 1800, and after conducting it successfully for a number of years Mr. Smith sold it to Joseph Gales, Jr., who afterwards associated with himself as editor, William W. Seaton. In 1813 President Madison appointed Mr. Smith the first Commissioner of the Revenue of the Treasury Department and on September 30, 1814, Secretary of the Treasury ad interim. From 1809 to 1819 he was President of the Bank of Washington and later President of The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.40262 Library of Congress the Washington branch Bank of the United States until the office was abolished ten years before his death. Undoubtedly, the success of his career was partly due to the assistance given him by his talented wife. Margaret Bayard was born, February 29, 1778, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Colonel John Bayard, a famous revolutionary officer, Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly and member of the Continental Congress. Colonel Bayard's nephew and adopted son was James A. Bayard, a distinguished diplomat and Senator from Delaware, and James A. Bayard's son, having the same name, was also a Senator from Delaware, as was his grandson, the late Thomas Francis Bayard. Margaret Bayard was 22 years old when she married, and it was inevitable that one who wrote so readily should eventually print her pieces, and in due course she fell in with Godey, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, Anthony Bleecker, J. Herrick and Miss Catherine Maria Sedgwick, and from 1823 up to a few years before her death she was an occasional contributor to the literature of the day. For Godey's Lady's Book she wrote “Domestic Sketches,” an account of Presidential Inaugurations and a serial moral story printed in March, April and May, vii 1837, entitled “Who Is Happy?” She also wrote some Spanish tales, “Constantine” and several other Roman stories, “Lucy,” “The Sister,” and “Estelle Aubert,” a translation from the French which Mrs. Hale printed in 1834. In 1835 she printed in The National Intelligencer a letter in verse anonymously to Harriet Martineau, and probably contributed to this paper on other occasions which cannot be identified. In 1837 she wrote for The Southern Literary Messenger and Peter Parley (Goodrich's) Annual “The Token,” but anonymously. She contributed to Herrick & Longacre's “National Portrait Gallery,” doubtless the articles on Mrs. Madison and probably one or two others. Her contributions were generally moral essays or stories, pitched high as the taste of the day required. The most ambitious product of her pen was a large novel in two volumes entitled “A Winter in Washington, or Memoirs of the Seymour Family,” published in 1824 (New York: E. Bliss and E. White) anonymously. Her authorship was, however, not concealed and was generally known at the time, and the book after being a decided success has since become exceedingly rare. The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.40262 Library of Congress The characters were taken from real life, and it has historical value because of a number of anecdotes, chiefly of Thomas Jefferson, scattered through its pages. Another volume published by her was a story of 257 pages, printed in 1828 and sold at a fair held for the benefit of the Washington Orphan Asylum, bearing the title “What Is Gentility?” (Published by Pishey Thompson. DeKraft, Printer.) Undoubtedly Mrs. Smith's most interesting and valuable writings were those which she never intended for publication and which have hitherto never seen the light, being her private letters, in Which she opens an intimate view of the famous political characters in Washington, whose acquaintance and friendship she viii enjoyed. Those letters present a picture highly entertaining and valuable, and so do some of the reminiscences which she wrote in her note-books. She was the intimate friend of Jefferson—who was her life's hero—and his family, and one of his most characteristic letters, that in which he discloses his views on religion, was addressed to her; of the Madisons, the Clays, the Calhouns; of William Wirt, the accomplished Attorney-General for twelve years, and of William H. Crawford, whose partisan in his candidacy for the Presidency she became, besides many others. She entertained Harriet Martineau when she came to Washington on her famous tour, held long conversations with the Socialist, Owen of Lanark, and had as one of her intimate friends Madame de Neuville, the wife of Hyde de Neuville, the most popular of the early ministers of France to the United States. She was a remarkably truthful letter writer, and never embellished her correspondence with apocryphal gossip. She judged her fellow- man charitably and believed in her country absolutely, and did not herself participate in any of the party rancor which raged around her. She was a Republican, to which party her husband adhered, but she came of a Federalist family and looked not unkindly upon her husband's opponents. She died January 7, 1844, and her husband November 1, 1845. In the valuable manuscript collection in my possession are several thousand of my grandmother's letters and of letters to her from nearly all the prominent characters of her day. They were kept by her son, Jonathan Bayard Harrison Smith, my father, under lock and key during his life, and have only been seen since coming ix under my control after The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith http://www.loc.gov/resource/lhbcb.40262 Library of Congress my mother's death. From this mass of material Mr. Hunt has selected only those letters which give an intimate view of the social life of Washington nearly a hundred years ago. Most of the letters are addressed to Mrs. Smith's sisters, Jane, herself a woman of literary accomplishments, the wife of Chief Justice Andrew Kirkpatrick of New Jersey, and Anna, who married Mr. Samuel Boyd of New York; and her husband's sisters, Susan Bayard Smith and Mary Ann Smith; and her son, when he was a student at Princeton. Sidney, the country place from which she often wrote, was a farm of 200 acres, a portion of which the Catholic University now occupies; but the original house is still standing. J. Henley Smith. xi ILLUSTRATIONS Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard), After the portrait by Charles Bird King, in the possession of her grandson. J. Henley Smith, Washington. Frontispiece FACING PAGE Colonel John Bayard, Father of Margaret Bayard A famous Revolutionary officer, Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and Member of the Continental Congress. 6 Aaron Burr From a portrait by John Vanderlyn, in the possession of Pierrepont Edwards, Elizabeth, N.
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