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2 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Washington (D.C.)--History--War of 1812.

  1. William B. Randolph papers, 1696-1884

    7,500 items. 14 containers. 6 linear feet. 7 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Virginia plantation owner. Correspondence, legal and financial records, and miscellaneous material reflecting the life of a plantation owner and enslaver in Virginia prior to the Civil War, with particular emphasis on the economics of managing an extensive plantation worked by a large force of enslaved people.

  2. 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).