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The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better."],"title_filing_ssi":"12 December 1830","title_ssm":["12 December 1830"],"title_tesim":["12 December 1830"],"normalized_title_ssm":["12 December 1830"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"physdesc_tesim":["(Hay)\n               Rogers to mother Mrs. [Eliza Kortright Monroe] Hay. 1\n               page."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"sort_isi":11,"names_ssim":["H[ortensia]","M[onroe]"],"persname_ssim":["H[ortensia]","M[onroe]"],"containers_ssim":["Folder 11"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eReceived two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better."],"_nest_path_":"/components#10","timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:04:09.071Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00106","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00106","_root_":"viw_viw00106","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00106","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00106.xml","title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9","Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d.","This collection consists of 28\n         items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)","Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_ssim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposited by \"Ash Lawn,\" 2003 February 13."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of 28\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ethe Quest for National\n         Identity\u003c/title\u003eand W. P. Cresson, \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJames Monroe\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hay (1765-1830) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEgbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMonroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYour letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOccupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePut off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n               \u003cpersname normal=\"Samuel L. Gouverneur\"\u003eSam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]\u003c/persname\u003e. Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"persname_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":28,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:04:09.071Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00106_c11"}},{"id":"viw_viw00106_c14","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"February 1, 1831","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00106_c14#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eConcerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here 6 months.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00106_c14#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viw_viw00106_c14","ref_ssm":["viw_viw00106_c14"],"id":"viw_viw00106_c14","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00106","_root_":"viw_viw00106","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00106","parent_ssi":"viw_viw00106","parent_ssim":["viw_viw00106"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viw_viw00106"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"text":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d.","February 1, 1831","\"Druid\n               Hill\" [near Baltimore Md.] to mother Mrs. [Eliza\n               Kortright Monroe] Hay. 4 pages on one leaf.","H[ortensia]","M[onroe]","R[ogers]","Folder 14","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months."],"title_filing_ssi":"February 1, 1831","title_ssm":["February 1, 1831"],"title_tesim":["February 1, 1831"],"normalized_title_ssm":["February 1, 1831"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"collection_ssim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"physdesc_tesim":["\"Druid\n               Hill\" [near Baltimore Md.] to mother Mrs. [Eliza\n               Kortright Monroe] Hay. 4 pages on one leaf."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"sort_isi":14,"names_ssim":["H[ortensia]","M[onroe]","R[ogers]"],"persname_ssim":["H[ortensia]","M[onroe]","R[ogers]"],"containers_ssim":["Folder 14"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eConcerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months."],"_nest_path_":"/components#13","timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:04:09.071Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00106","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00106","_root_":"viw_viw00106","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00106","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00106.xml","title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9","Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d.","This collection consists of 28\n         items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)","Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_ssim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposited by \"Ash Lawn,\" 2003 February 13."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of 28\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ethe Quest for National\n         Identity\u003c/title\u003eand W. P. Cresson, \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJames Monroe\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hay (1765-1830) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEgbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMonroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYour letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOccupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePut off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n               \u003cpersname normal=\"Samuel L. Gouverneur\"\u003eSam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]\u003c/persname\u003e. Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"persname_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":28,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:04:09.071Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00106_c14"}},{"id":"viw_viw00106","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d.","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00106#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay. Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M. Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.], the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_viw00106#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_viw00106","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00106","_root_":"viw_viw00106","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00106","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00106.xml","title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9","Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d.","This collection consists of 28\n         items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)","Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_ssim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposited by \"Ash Lawn,\" 2003 February 13."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of 28\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ethe Quest for National\n         Identity\u003c/title\u003eand W. P. Cresson, \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJames Monroe\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hay (1765-1830) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEgbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMonroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYour letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOccupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePut off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n               \u003cpersname normal=\"Samuel L. Gouverneur\"\u003eSam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]\u003c/persname\u003e. Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"persname_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":28,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:04:09.071Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00106","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00106","_root_":"viw_viw00106","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00106","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00106.xml","title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"text":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9","Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d.","This collection consists of 28\n         items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)","Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.","E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. Acc. 2003.9"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_title_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"collection_ssim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn \n         1795-1834 and\n         n.d."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposited by \"Ash Lawn,\" 2003 February 13."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection consists of 28\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003ethe Quest for National\n         Identity\u003c/title\u003eand W. P. Cresson, \n         \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJames Monroe\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hay (1765-1830) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eTench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n         \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eEgbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["See Harry Ammon, James Monroe: \n          the Quest for National\n         Identity and W. P. Cresson, \n          James Monroe .","Mme. Campan was a former lady-in-waiting to Marie\n         Antoinette. She ran the most fashionable school in France and\n         her niece married General Ney (Marshal Ney).","Hortense de Beauharnais was born in Paris in 1783, died in\n         Switzerland in 1837. She was the daughter of Alexandre de\n         Beauharnais and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (empress\n         Josephine, wife of Napoleon). She married Louis, Napoleon I's\n         brother who became king of Holland. She was sent into exile\n         during the second Restoration. Her son was Emperor Napoleon\n         III.","George Hay (1765-1830) \n          Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840) \n          Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers (1809?-1854), granddaughter\n         of James Monroe \n          Tench Ringgold (1776-1844) \n          Egbert Read Watson (1810- 1887)"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMonroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Monroe Papers, Ashlawn, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n            Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMisfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eYour letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIllness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUpset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOccupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePut off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n               \u003cpersname normal=\"Samuel L. Gouverneur\"\u003eSam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]\u003c/persname\u003e. Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1795-1834 and n.d., of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay.\n         Includes letters written by and to her and to her father James\n         Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame\n         [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M.\n         Rogers of \"Druid Hill\" near Baltimore, Md. , her son-in-law\n         Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of Marquis de\n         Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du\n         Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of\n         James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible\n         sale by the Hay family of \"Ashfield,\" [near Richmond, Va.],\n         the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de\n         Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of\n         Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester\n         Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold and Egbert Read Watson.","Genet [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan to James\n               Monroe. I have received last summer a letter which had\n               come under cover of your address and which you had sent\n               to me by Mr. [?] formerly Charges des affairs of\n               Portugal and who now resides in this town. He wrote\n               several times in answer to Monsieur D'Arago at the\n               Hague. Eliza is marvelously well. They are preparing a\n               play.","Takes advantage of departure of General McPherson to\n               answer you and to tell you that I am infinitely touched\n               by your kind remembrance. I can not console myself for\n               your departure and that of your dear Parent. Madame\n               Garnot has just been dangerously ill. M. Auguie was\n               losing his mind from despair. You know how interesting\n               Mde Garnot was both through her virtues and her talents.\n               Madame Ney is still in Berne with the general. She is\n               pregnant with her second child. Madame Lambert also will\n               give us a little nephew in two or three months. Your old\n               comrade Hortense [de Beauharnais] is with her husband .\n               . . News of other female friends. Lucy Crabtree was not\n               able to profit by the opportunity afforded by General\n               McPherson, the expenses of travel seemed too high for\n               her. Thank your dear Papa for letters which contained\n               bills of exchange. Imagine how your good father must be\n               full of thoughts for his two little girls who are\n               here.","\"Charming little savage\" who has seen the world . . .\n               I greet you for the New Year. Charged bearer to kiss you\n               both for me. He is a father of a family. . . once very\n               rich, today without fortune - but superior to reverses\n               thorough his courage and his virtues. We have his\n               daughter. . . interesting Nellie Bour-jolli of the blue\n               class. Before long you will see Lucy Crabtree. Miss Lucy\n               will bring you the Dialogues which I have had printed\n               and which will be very useful for French and Italian.\"\n               Asks for English books. Received letter of 12 pages from\n               brother. General [?] and his wife have returned from\n               Switzerland. Madame Hortense is at [?] with her husband.\n               It is a town in Picardie. Husband of Hortense is there\n               at the head of his regiment.","Misfortunes of this revolution. Retired to a little\n               town 15 leagues from Paris and enjoying son's society.\n               Lost three thousand pounds. Battle near farm. So\n               deprived of farm's rent. Nerves of stomach. Recall\n               myself to you, my dear Madame Monroe and my dear scholar\n               Eliza. Only sends letters of recommendation for a few\n               people. Eliza has been indisposed at pains in part of\n               her body after her lying ill. Wearing of flannel shifts\n               and our waters in France, were the proper remedy. Must\n               have some waters on new continent which bear some\n               analogy with Barrage's waters.","I have been moved to tears on receiving a new proof\n               of friendship granted by my dear pupil Mrs. Hay. Your\n               good president and the so kind Mrs. Monroe. I shall\n               write to the ambassador and to Madame Ney. I also dare\n               to pray you to have the enclosed letter sent to Monsieur\n               le Chevalier de Mun.","I am exceedingly anxious about everything concerning\n               you and your respected parents. The loss of my dear\n               husband. A painful gland in my breast gives me just\n               fears, concerning the duration of my existence. My poor\n               son was very tenderly touched by the interest you had\n               taken in his sad destinies. I have seen Hortense [de\n               Beauharnais] in her country house. She has recovered her\n               health. She goes over her very little domain and is busy\n               beautifying it. You know how much I cherished her when\n               she was a Republican citizen having lost her passing\n               crown.","Their trip. Entirely laid to rest anxieties regarding\n               her health. Mr. Hay [George Hay]suffered with vertigo.\n               My father (James Monroe) wrote you for Hortensia to\n               bring the children. I am half cracked to see\n               Eleanor.","Rejection of grandfather's claim. Knew it would be\n               rejected if Fenton Mercer introduced bill. Servants sick\n               with measles.","Your letter shows you are under the influence of a\n               great misapprehension as to the cause and course of my\n               feelings as indicated in my letters to Hortensia.\n               Husband's health has been very delicate. Go to\n               Washington to see Dr. Hunt. I certainly will come to my\n               child, my only child and as you say, \"at a moment when\n               she will most require the care of her Mother.\" Uncertain\n               of the date when she should come.","Illness of George Hay and Mrs. James Monroe. Lloyd\n               Rogers back from funeral of Harry Rogers. Won't come\n               because afraid to bring baby.","Received two copies of Sam's oration. Lloyd spitting\n               blood. The 11th was day appointed for sale. Some\n               delighted to hear grandpapa is so much better.","Mr. Rogers is much better. Bled five times. I am\n               extremely sorry to hear that \"Ashfield\" was not sold. I\n               would hire out and sell all the blacks I could. Glad to\n               hear that a movement has been made in New York as to my\n               grandfather's claims. Ask Maria Gouverneur why she does\n               not write to me.","Mr. Rogers looks badly. All the servants have the\n               measles. Sorry to read accounts of 1 of January dinners.\n               He [James Monroe] is very old and recent misfortune\n               demands seclusion not solitude. If he sees company it\n               should be of a different sort from Morris, Livingston,\n               Ogden. Grandfather's claim has been brought forward by\n               Fenton Mercer. Doesn't like Thomas Swann visiting. Tell\n               me something of Maria Gouverneur. I do not wish to\n               interfere in Aunt M's concerns. She has a husband to\n               take care of her.","Concerned at accounts of grandpapa's health. His\n               sleepiness. Sends bundle. Sent to Skinner to ask him to\n               give it to Sam. Mr. Rogers wearing cotton wadding next\n               to breast. Recovering usual health. Needs some socks of\n               lamb's wool. Mrs. West is knitting the baby some but\n               that is a slow process. Enclose a few lines from a\n               letter from Mary Mercer which is all I have heard of the\n               claim. Has pattern for cape to be worn entirely in the\n               street. Baby has beautiful skin. I forgot to mention\n               that both Frank and Fanny will be free if they stay here\n               6 months.","Papers announced passage of bill for $30,000 (for\n               James Monroe). Senate may increase it. John Mercer says\n               abuse was gross and Sam says he was insulted on the\n               floor of the Senate himself. She (Antoinette) told me\n               you had written to her telling her of the offer for \"Ash\n               Field\" - that she had sold all the Ashfield negroes for\n               1400 dollars.","Mr. Rogers has been sent for to go to his sister whom\n               he scarcely expects to find alive. He will give you a\n               minute account of the baby who without vanity is a sweet\n               looking baby. Letter from Sam saying he would take a\n               meal with us en passant. It was written the minute the\n               claim passed. I fear you trouble yourself about making\n               things for the baby. I have Mr. Rogers' things to pack.\n               Have had no spirit. Languid. Have not strength to nurse\n               the baby in warm weather. Will take calomel when I have\n               weaned her. Give my love to Louisa and thank her for the\n               little necklace would like to see her. Mrs. Murray is\n               better.","Upset at her last letter. Delighted with things for\n               baby. Not ill-crossed brat. My grandfather would not be\n               able to sell \"Oak Hill.\" I hear \"Ash Field\" was not\n               sold. Egbert Watson is still here. Shall be sorry to see\n               all the negroes sold. So do not propose to me to take\n               them for in the first place I would only buy them in .\n               If I took them at all as any other bidder.","I do not feel alarmed for grandfather. Would go to\n               New York directly but cannot see that I could be of any\n               use to him. Bring Monroe to her house but recommends\n               they consult Dr. Physic in Philadelphia. Thought she had\n               scarlet fever. I shall begin today to wean my baby. I\n               cannot suckle her any longer. I have not strength.","Hope grandfather continues to gain strength. He is\n               head of our family, the cornerstone of our building.\n               Educated her. Upset that James Monroe (probably nephew)\n               is coolly calculating on his death. Has gotten Life of\n               Byron. Hear Byron is very indelicate. Not fit for ladies\n               to hear. You parted from me in anger. I hardly know why.\n               Couldn't carry a child into disease. Did you not carry\n               me to my poor grandmother's to avoid the measles.","Can't come. Child continuously sick. Will come if she\n               thinks grandfather (James Monroe) would even know her -\n               Sam's letter precludes all hope. Wants grandfather's\n               blessing, I never had my father's [deathbed\n               blessing?]","Occupied with baby and sick servants. Treating\n               servants. Are to have a convention in Baltimore to pick\n               presidential candidate. Lanced my baby's gums. Describes\n               quilt she is working on. I could not learn much about my\n               old friend from him. Mary Custis or Lee is at Point\n               Comfort.","I hope you have received the [?] I sent you\n               yesterday. Let me offer you today a very little token of\n               my attachment to you. A little dog the emblem of my [?]\n               and fidelity in what I promised you then a silver medal\n               which has been made for my poor aunt Campan and which\n               you will perhaps find precious for her sake and lastly a\n               little French theater fan which belonged to my poor\n               mother. I embrace you in the French way \"de tout mon\n               coeur.\" God bless you and give you a happy passage.","Needs to sell two beautiful editions of the most\n               curious kind, only remains of a very fine library I once\n               possessed. If you know among the Americans some body who\n               could desire to purchase them you'll oblige me\n               sincerely. Eliza is in very good health and I hope in a\n               few months that she will be generally improved.","Sorry they can't visit and that the cause is friend's\n               illness. Has he seen M. [Sabatier ?] the celebrated\n               surgeon in Paris. I intended to procure very pleasant\n               walks to Mrs. Monroe to lead her to a party of [?] which\n               may be she never saw before. Hope she will come and Mr.\n               [?] will be soon better. I send you my receipt of the\n               two [?] Eliza works prettily. She cried the first day\n               she came back saying she had lost of her writing since\n               her absence from school. Her [?] is her only defect.","I have experienced great misfortunes and my health\n               suffered from it. I send you some printing matters which\n               will interest you. They are a noble defense in my favor\n               for the outrages which the pamphleteers have made me\n               suffer so unjustly.","[*Vent^se is the name of one of the French republic\n               months.]","In French. Concerns her father [Marquis de\n               Lafayette].","Put off writing. Expecting to see Cousin \n                Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur] . Worried about health of child.\n               Thinks Papa will like his room. Ice house had caved in.\n               Tench [Ringgold] told me grandpapa intended to stay some\n               day with him."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n            materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of\n            Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n            copyright, if not Swem Library."],"names_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               James]","H[ortensia]","R[ogers]","Sam[uel L.\n               Gouverneur]"],"persname_ssim":["E[liza]","K[ortright]","M[onroe]","M[onsieur\n               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