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1. Nicholas Philip Trist papers, 1795-1873

   6,500 items. 16 containers. 6.4 linear feet. 17 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Diplomat and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, notes, reports, legal and financial papers, writings, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Trist's tenure as U.S. consul in Havana and his role in negotiating the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War. Other topics include Trist's business interests, particularly his sugar plantations in Cuba and Louisiana; the establishment of the University of Virginia; the Oregon boundary question; politics and military affairs in Mexico; the slave trade; and family and personal affairs.

2. Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton papers, 1793-1861

   7 items. 7 containers. 1.3 linear feet. 2 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Wife of architect William Thornton. Diaries and notebooks primarily describing social life in Washington, D.C., with extensive detail about housekeeping and expense matters. Also contained in the diaries are memorandum books, poems, sketches, and silhouettes of unidentified people.

3. Margaret Bayard Smith papers, 1789-1874

   3,600 items. 5 containers plus 11 oversize. 8.4 linear feet. 8 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Social leader, author, and prominent Washingtonian. Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, and commonplace books consisting mainly of family correspondence between Smith and her sisters, Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick and Maria Bayard Boyd, and her husband, journalist and banker, Samuel Harrison Smith (1772-1845).