Washington: A history of the capital, 1800-1950

Washington: A History of the Capital, 1800-1950

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1. George Washington to Dr. William Thornton, 6 Oct 1799, The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, xxxvii, 388
2. John Ball Osborne, "The Removal of the Government to Washington," Columbia Historical Society Records, in, 158
3. Allen C. Clark, Greenleaf and Law in the Federal City, pp. 123-43
4. William B. Webb, The Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, pp. 55-62
5. Margaret Bayard Smith, The First Forty Years of Washington Society, ed. Gaillard Hunt, p. 10
6. George Watterston, A New Guide to Washington, 1842, Preface; Commissioners to David Burnes, 19 Feb 1796
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10. Walter S. Sanderlin, The Great National Project: A History of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, in The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, LXIV, No. 1, pp. 18
11. John B. McMaster, A History of the People of the United States, i, 555-62
12. M. B. Smith, First Forty Years, p. 23
13. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The Journal of Latrobe, pp. 131-32.
14. Elizabeth S. Kite, UEnfant and Washington, 1791-1792, pp. 51-58
15. Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, i, 87-108
16. David B. Warden, A Chorographical and Statistical Description of the District of Columbia, p. 64
17. Allen C. Clark, Life and Letters of Dolly Madison, pp. 37-38
18. Charles Moore, "Augustus Brevoort Woodward—Citizen of Two Cities," CHS Rec, iv, 114-17.
19. Irving Brant, James Madison, Secretary of State, 1800-1809, pp. 21-33
20. Walter S. Cox, "Efforts to Obtain a Code of Laws for the District of Columbia," CHS Ree, in, 115-16.
21. Harry E. Miller, Banking Theories in the United States before 1860, pp. 11-12
22. Davis R. Dewey, State Banking before the Civil War, pp. 53-54, 57.
23. Robert H. Harkness, "The Old Glass House," CHS Rec, xviii, 218-21
24. Anthony G. Dietz, "The Government Factory System and the Indian Trade," pp. 146-63
25. Henry B. Hibben, Navy Yard, Washington, History from Organization, 1799, to Present Date, pp. 33-39
26. Charles Jared Ingersoll, Inchiquin, the Jesuit's Letters, p. 53
27. Charles William Janson, The Stranger in America, 1792-1806, ed. Carl S. Driver, pp. 209-14
28. M. B. Smith, First Forty Years, p. 394
29. Allen C. Clark, "The Mayoralty of Robert Brent," CHS Rec, xxxm-iv, 269
30. Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Social Life in the Early Republic, pp. 143-44.
31. Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Salons Colonial and Republican, pp. 188-90
32. M. B. Smith, First Forty Tears, pp. 393-403
33. J. Dudley Morgan, "Robert Brent, First Mayor of Washington City," CHS Rec, ii, 236-51
34. Virginia Waller Davis, "Fifty Names on a Bronze Tablet, The Founders of Phi Beta Kappa," The Key Reporter, xxv (Summer 1960), p. 2.
35. Anne Royall, Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States, pp. 150-54
36. Ralph L. Ketcham, "The Dictates of Conscience: Edward Coles and Slavery," Virginia Quarterly Review, xxxvi (Winter 1960), pp. 46-62
37. Glenn Tucker, Poltroons and Patriots, A Popular Account of the War of 1812, I, 19.
38. Henry Adams, History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, vi, 407-408
39. Allen C. Clark, Life and Letters of Dolly Madison, p. 90
40. M. B. Smith, First Forty Years, pp. 89-91
41. Dr. James Ewell's "Capture of Washington," in Planters and Mariners Medical Companion, 3rd ed; Tucker, Poltroons, n, 552-84
42. Henry B. Fearon, Sketches of America, A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles through the Eastern and Western States of America, 3rd ed., pp. 284-85
43. Madison Mss; Law, Carroll and Frederick May to Comrs, 7 May 1815, D.C. Miscellany; Clark, Greenleaf and Law, pp. 291-95
44. Florian Cajori, Early Mathematics in North and South America, pp. 82-83
45. A. Hunter Dupree, Science in the Federal Government, A History of Policies and Activities to 1940, pp. 31-33
46. Frederick V. Coville, "Early Botanical Activity in the District of Columbia," CHS Rec, v, 176, 94
47. Leonard D. White, The Jeffersonians, A Study in Administrative History, 1801-1829, pp. 238-39
48. Robert Smith to John Eppes, 21 Dec 1810, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, xv, 467-71
49. Robert J. Hubbard, "Political and Social Life in Washington during the Administration of President Monroe," Oneida Historical Society Transactions, ix (1903), pp. 63-64.
50. George Dangerfield, Era of Good Feelings, p. 179
51. Charles S. Sydnor, The Development of Southern Sectionalism, p. 113
52. Ralph G H. Catterall, The Second Bank of the United States, pp. 51, 66
53. Andrew Rothwell, Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, 29 Oct 1819.
54. William M. Gouge, A Short History of Paper Money and Banking in the United States, p. 47
55. Leonard D. White, The Jeffersonians, pp. 519-20
56. G. R. Fitzgerald to Richard Wallack, 20 Sep 1818, D.C. Miscellany; H Doc 55, 16C, IS, pp. 665-67
57. Jonathan Elliot, Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square, p. 256.
58. James C. Welling, Brief Chronicles of the Columbian College from 1821 to 1873, p. 8.
59. Joseph M. Toner, Anniversary Oration delivered before the Medical Society, pp. 33-34
60. Sarah H. Porter, The Life and Times of Anne Royall, pp. 153-54.
61. Jesse Torrey, A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, pp. 33-34
62. William T. Laprade, "The Domestic Slave Trade in the District of Columbia," Journal of Negro History, xi (Jan 1926), 17-34.
63. Richard Jackson, Chronicles of Georgetown, p. 214
64. G. Brown Goode, "Genesis of the U.S. National Museum," p. 279
65. Anne Royall, Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States, pp. 155-57
66. Charles Fairman, Art and Artists of the Capitol, pp. 29-48
67. Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Union, pp. 122-23
68. Allen C. Clark, "Joseph Gales, Junior, Editor and Mayor," CHS Rec, XXIII, pp. 98-99
69. Katherine E. Crane, Blair House, Past and Present, pp. 5-7
70. Charles E. Wiltse, John C. Calhoun, Nationalist, pp. 128-30.
71. Kalisky Diary; Hubbard, "Political and Social Life," p. 68
72. Edward Hungerford, The Story of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1827-1927, I, 120-40
73. Sarah H. Porter, Life of Anne Royall, pp. 167-68
74. M. B. Smith, First Forty Years, pp. 367-68
75. William B. Webb, Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, pp. 22-23.
76. William Quereau Force, Picture of the City of Washington and Its Vicinity for 1845, pp. 43-46
77. Louise Hall, "The Design of the Old Patent Office Building," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, xv (Mar 1956), pp. 27-30.
78. A. Hunter Dupree, Science in the Federal Government, pp. 43-44, 51-54, 56-65
79. Florian Cajori, The Chequered Career of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, pp. 82
80. G. Brown Goode, "The Genesis of the National Museum," pp. 274-75
81. Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution, pp. 132-37
82. James W. Sheahan, Corporation Laws of the City of Washington, pp. 248-50
83. M. B. Smith, First Forty Years, pp. 362-67
84. Stefan Lorant, The Presidency, A Pictorial History of Presidential Elections from Washington to Truman, p. 160.
85. Jessie Benton Fremont, Souvenir of My Time, pp. 14-25
86. Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, ed. Donald Smalley, p. 233
87. M. B Smith, First Forty Tears, pp. 369-70
88. Stefan Lorant, The Presidency, p. 162
89. Laurence A. Gobright, Recollection of Men and Things at Washington during the Third of a Century, p. 67
90. Paul W. Gates, "Southern Investments in Northern Lands Before the Civil War," Journal of Southern History, V (May 1939), pp. 164-85.
91. de Bacourt, Souvenirs of a Diplomat, pp. 62-63
92. G. Brown Goode, "Genesis of the National Museum," pp. 278-79
93. Charles O. Paullin, "Early Movements for a National Observatory," CHS Rec, xxv, 50-51
94. Frederick L. Harvey, History of the Washington National Monument and the National Washington Monument Society, pp. 25-55
95. Charles E. Fairman, Art and Artists of the Capitol, pp. 65, 99-104
96. Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, pp. 163
97. William J. Simmons, Men of Mark, Eminent, Progressive and Rising, p. 302
98. Ulrich Phillips, The Life of Robert Toombs, pp. 84-85
99. Frederic Bancroft, Slave-Trading in the Old South, ed. 1959, pp. 50-54.
100. Luther P. Jackson, Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860, pp. 6-13
101. Ellen M. O'Connor, Myrtilla Miner, A Memoir, pp. 59-79.
102. Horace M. Bond, The Education of the Negro in the American Social Order, p. 178.
103. Paul W. Gates, "Southern Investments in Northern Lands Before the Civil War," Journal of Southern History, ν (May 1939), pp. 164-85
104. Christopher Tunnard and Henry H. Reed, American Skyline, p. 105.
105. Allen C. Clark, "Walter Lenox, the Thirteenth Mayor of the City of Washington," CHS Rec, xx, 167-92
106. Robert H. Harkness, "Dr. William B. Magruder," CHS Rec, xvi, 150-87
107. Eyre Crowe, With Thackeray in America, pp. 112-24
108. Paul Wilstach, "Literary Landmarks of the National Capital," Bookman, CLIII (Jul 1916), pp. 493-94
109. E. R. and J. Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, p. 29.
110. M. M. Odgers, Alexander Dallas Bache, pp. 203-204
111. James D. Horan, Mathew Brady, Historian with a Camera, p. 32
112. Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, p. 562
113. David Macrae, The Americans at Home, p. 59.
114. Charles P. Stone, "Washington on the Eve of War," Century Magazine, iv (Jul 1883), pp. 458-64
115. William Richstein, The Stranger's Guide to Washington City, pp. 22-34
116. Henry Latham, Black and White, a Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States, p. 59.
117. Charles P. Stone, "Washington in March and April, 1861," Magazine of American History, xiv (July 1885), pp. 1-3
118. Harry J. Carman and Reinhard H. Luthin, Lincoln and the Patronage, pp. 186-227
119. Henry T. Shanks, The Secession Movement in Virginia, 1847-1861, pp. 191-208
120. George L. P. Radcliffe, Governor Thomas H. Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War, in Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series xix, Nov-Dec 1901, pp. 21-50.
121. Elizabeth Lindsay Lomax, Leaves from an Old Washington Diary, 1854-1863, pp. 149-51
122. Radcliffe, Governor Thomas H. Hicks of Maryland, pp. 40-42.
123. Alexander Howard Meneely, The War Department, 1861, pp. 111-12
124. Alexander Howard Meneely, The War Department, 1861, pp. 182-83.
125. Eugenia Phillips, A Southern Woman's Story of Her Imprisonment, 1861-62
126. Abraham Lincoln, His Speeches and Writings, ed. Roy P. Basler, p. 701
127. Harold Hyman, Era of the Oath, Northern Loyalty Tests during the Civil War and Reconstruction, pp. 1-50
128. Allen C. Clark, "Richard Wallach and the Times of His Mayoralty," CHS Rec, xxi, 200-45
129. John C. Ewers, "Charles Bird King," Rpt Smithsonian Institution, 1953, pp. 463-73.
130. Samuel Yorke At Lee, History of the Public Schools of Washington City, D.C., 1805-1875, pp. 130-31.
131. Perley Poore, Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, n, 61.
132. Thomas Coulson, Joseph Henry: His Life and Work, pp. 237-38
133. J. O. Wilson, "Eighty Years of the Public Schools of Washington," CHS Rec, I, 144-46
134. H. W. Schotter, The Growth and Development of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, pp. 86-87
135. William B. Wilson, History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, I, 333-40
136. Williston Lofton, "The Development of Public Education for Negroes in Washington, D.C., a Study of Separate but Equal Accommodations," pp. 143-44
137. Helen Nicolay, Sixty Years of the Literary Society, p. 7
138. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, p. 256
139. Thomas and Marva Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 259-60
140. Madison Davis, "History of the City Post-Office," CHS Rec, vi, 194
141. Phineas Indritz, "Post Civil War Ordinances Prohibiting Racial Discrimination in the District of Columbia," Georgetown Law Journal, XLII, 179-207.
142. Richard Jackson, Chronicles of Georgetown, pp. 231-33
143. Franklin T. Howe, "The Board of Public Works," CHS Rec, in, 257-62
144. F. C. Adams, Our Little Monarchy, Who Runs It and What It Costs, pp. 7, 9
145. Franklin T. Howe, "The Board of Public Works," CHS Rec, in, 257-78.
146. Walter Cox, "Efforts to Obtain a Code of Laws," CHS Rec, in, 125-29
147. John Mercer Langston, From Virginia Plantation to National Capitol, or the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from the Old Dominion, pp. 298
148. Phineas Indritz, "Post Civil War Ordinances in the District of Columbia Prohibiting Racial Discrimination," The Georgetown Law Journal, XLII, 179-207
149. Horatio King, Turning on the Light, pp. 14-16
150. Francis P. B. Sands, The Founders and Original Organizers of the Metropolitan Club, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Etiquette of Social Life in Washington, p. 33
151. Helen Nicolay, Sixty Years of the Literary Society, pp. 4-7
152. Thomas M. Spaulding, The Literary Society in War and Peace, pp. 4-9.
153. Simon Newcomb, The Reminiscences of an Astronomer, pp. 212
154. S. J. Kauffmann, "Equestrian Statuary in Washington," CHS Rec, v, 124-28
155. Lillie Hegermann-Lindencrone, The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, p. 56
156. Marian Gouverneur, Ai I Remember, pp. 382-83
157. Simon Newcomb, Reminiscences of An Astronomer, pp. 241-42
158. Hegermann-Lindencrone, Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, pp. 16-17.
159. S. J. Kauiffmann, "Equestrian Statuary in Washington," CHS Rec, v, 124-28
160. Domestic Letters of The Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives.
161. Enumerators' returns for the District of Columbia for the second through the tenth United States Censuses, schedules of Free Inhabitants, second to eighth Census, and of Population, ninth and tenth censuses, National Archives; all other schedules for the seventh through the tenth Census at Duke University, with microfilm copies of schedules on Manufactures and Social Statistics, 1850-1870, in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
162. Letters Received by the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 6 vols., 1791-1802, Record Group 42, National Archives.
163. Letters Sent by The Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 6 vols., 1791-1802, Record Group 42, National Archives.
164. Minutes of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Georgetown, 1810-1822.
165. Minutes of the Trustees of Public Schools (originally Trustees of the Permanent Institution for the Education of Youth), 1805-1818.
166. Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1788, Record Group 11, National Archives.
167. Petitions to the House of Representatives, 1800-1878, Record Group 233, National Archives.
168. Petitions to the Senate, 1816-1878, Record Group 46, National Archives.
169. Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 3 vols., 1791-1802, Record Group 42, National Archives.
170. Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1871, District of Columbia file, Record Group 105, National Archives.
171. Sir Edward Thornton, Letters to the British Foreign Office, 1871, Foreign Office correspondence, Public Record Office, photostatic copies in Library of Congress.
172. Library of Congress Manuscript Division Ethan Allen, Sketch of Washington Parish, 1794-1855, in District of Columbia Miscellany.
173. Minutes of the Trustees of the Washington Manual Labor School and Male Orphanage, 1836-1860.
174. Records of Proceedings of the Presbyterian Churches in the District of Columbia, October 5, 1841-May 2, 1842, relating to the Founding of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church for Negroes, Carter Woodson Papers.
175. Hillcrest Children's Center, Washington Papers of the Lady Managers and Proceedings of the Washington Female Orphan Asylum, 1815-1831, and of the Washington City Orphan Asylum, 1831-1878.
176. Bancroft Library, University of California, Balch Papers, 1862-1865.
177. In possession of Professor Charles A. Barker of the Johns Hopkins University, Sayles J. Bowen Papers, 1846-1892, cited in the notes as Bowen Mss.
178. Columbia Historical Society Archives, James Topham & Co., Journal.
179. Library of Congress Manuscript Division Anonymous, "A Canal Boat Journey, 1857."
180. Wilhelmus B. Bryan, Notes used in preparation of his two-volume History of the National Capital.
181. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Stock Papers.
182. W. W. Corcoran, Letter Press Books, 1861.
183. Lewis Grant Davidson Papers.
184. District of Columbia Miscellany.
185. Benjamin Baker French Papers, 1835-1870.
186. Gales and Seaton Papers.
187. Louisa Kalisky Diary, 1822-1823, Lee Palfrey Papers.
188. James Madison Papers, 1815.
189. William Owner Diary, 1860-1867.
190. Eugenia Phillips, A Southern Woman's Story of her Imprisonment, 1861-1862.
191. John Pickett, Letterbook, 1866-1867.
192. William Plumer Papers.
193. John Sessford Annals, 1846-1860.
194. Alexander Shepherd Papers.
195. Michael Shiner Diary, 1813-1863.
196. Margaret Bayard Smith, Commonplace Book, Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith Papers.
197. Benjamin Stoddert Papers, 1800-1805.
198. Alexander Stuart Papers.
199. Carter Woodson Papers.
200. Duke University Library
201. W. W. Corcoran Papers.
202. Richard Fendall Papers.
203. Harper Library, University of Chicago, John Robertson Papers.
204. Minnesota Historical Society
205. Thomas Newson Papers.
206. Alexander Ramsey Papers.
207. John M. Williams Papers.
208. University of North Carolina Library, Southern Historical Collection, John Houston Bill Diary.
209. Kate S. Carney Diary, 1859.
210. John Chapron Papers.
211. William A. Graham Papers, 1834-1844.
212. Peter Hagner Family Papers, 1730-1940.
213. William Curry Harllee Papers, 1860.
214. Spencer Jarnagin Papers, 1844-1846.
215. William Lowndes Papers, 1815.
216. Benedict J. Semmes Papers, 1848-1857.
217. Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, Griswold Papers.
218. George Washington University Library, Wright Collection.
219. Wisconsin Historical Society, Charles Billinghurst Papers.
220. Dietz, Anthony G., "The Government Factory System and the Indian Trade," M.A. Thesis, the American University, 1953.
221. Goldman, Ralph M., "Party Chairmen and Party Faction, 1789-1900; a theory of Executive responsibility and conflict resolution," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1951, microfilm, Library of Congress.
222. Lofton, Williston, "The Development of Public Education for Negroes in Washington, D.C., a Study of Separate but Equal Accommodations," Ph.D. Dissertation, the American University, 1944.
223. Mayo, Lida, "Japanese Fever," in possession of the author.
224. Olmsted, Stanley, "The Corcoran School of Art," in possession of Corcoran School of Art.
225. Piper, Ada, "Activities of Negroes in the Territorial Government of the District of Columbia, 1871-1874," M.A. Thesis, Howard University, 1943.
226. American State Papers, 38 vols.
227. Finance, 5 vols.
228. Military Affairs, 7 vols.
229. Miscellaneous, 2 vols.
230. Annals of the Congress of the United States, 1789-1824, 42 vols., Washington, 1834-1856.
231. Annual Reports of the Smithsonian Institution, 1847-, Washington, D.C.
232. Congressional Globe, 46 vols., Washington, 1834-1873.
233. Congressional Record, Washington, 1873-.
234. Congressional Serials, 1817-1878
235. House of Representatives, Documents Executive Documents Miscellaneous Documents Reports
236. The Executive Documents ordinarily include the annual Reports of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior, 1849-. Especially important
237. "Memorial of inhabitants of the District of Columbia, praying for the gradual abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia," House Document 140, 23C, 2S, Serial 274.
238. "Banks in the District of Columbia," House Report 800, 24C, IS, Serial 295.
239. "Alleged Hostile Organization Against the Government within the District of Columbia," House Report 79, 36C, IS, Serial 1105.
240. "Special Report of the Commissioner of Education on the Condition and Improvement of Public Schools in the District of Columbia," House Executive Document 315, 41C, 2S, Serial 1427.
241. "Affairs in the District of Columbia," House Report 7, 42C, 3S, Serial 1576.
242. "Documentary History of the Construction and Development of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds," House Report 646, 58C, 2S, Serial 4585.
243. Senate
244. Documents
245. Executive Documents
246. Miscellaneous Documents
247. Reports
248. The annual reports of the Secretary of the Interior appear also in Senate Executive Documents. Especially important
249. "Southard Report," Senate Document 97, 23C, 2S, Serial 268.
250. "Report of the Joint Select Committee of Congress appointed to Inquire into the Affairs of the Government of the District of Columbia," Senate Report 453, 43C, IS, Serials 1590, 1591, 1592.
251. "Investigation of Charities and Reformatory Institutions in the District of Columbia," Senate Document, 185, 55C, IS, Serial 3565.
252. "Federal and Local Legislation relating to Canals and Steam Railways in the District of Columbia, 1802-1903," Senate Document 220, 57C, 2S, Serial 4430.
253. "History of the Washington Monument," Senate Document, 224, 57C, 2S, Serial 4436.
254. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1788, from the Original Records in the Library of Congress, ed. Gaillard Hunt, 34 vols., Washington, 1904-1937.
255. Papers of the First Fourteen Congresses, in Library of Congress, Rare Book Division.
256. Register of Debates in Congress, 14 vols., Washington, 1824-1837.
257. Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, 1817-1879, commonly called Official Register.
258. Reports and Addresses, Documents Relating to Freedmen, Howard University Library.
259. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.
260. United States Census, Second through Ninth, 1800-1870.
261. United States Statutes at Large, 39 vols., Boston, 1875-1919.
262. Abraham Lincoln, His Speeches and Writings, ed. Roy P. Basler, Cleveland and New York, 1947.
263. The Writings of James Madison, 9 vols., ed. Gaillard Hunt, New York, 1900-1910.
264. The Writings of George Washington, from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799, 39 vols., ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931-1941.
265. Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital, containing notes and correspondence between Jefferson, Washington, TJEnfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others relating to the founding, surveying, planning, designing, constructing, and administering the city of Washington, 1783-1818, ed. Saul K. Padover, New York, 1946.
266. Acts of the Corporation of the City of Washington, 11 vols., Washington, 1805-1816, continued as Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, 45 vols., Washington, 1817-1862.
267. Charter of the Town of Alexandria with the revised code of laws of the Corporation, comp. William Cranch, Alexandria, 1821.
268. The Code of the District of Columbia (to March 1929), Washington, 1930.
269. Debates and Other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia…, June 1788, 3 vols., 2nd ed., Richmond, 1805.
270. Journals of the Council of The City of Washington, (61st through 67th Council), Washington, 1864-1871.
271. Journal of the Council of the District of Columbia, 5 vols., Washington, 1872-1874.
272. Journal of House of Delegates of the District of Columbia, 5 vols., Washington, 1871-1873.
273. Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown, with an appendix…, Georgetown, 1821, continued as Ordinances and Resolutions of the Corporation of Georgetown, Georgetown, 1838, and as Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown, Georgetown, 1840-1859.
274. Proceedings and Debates of the North Carolina Convention,… July, 1788,… Edenton, North Carolina, 1789.
275. Reports of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 1874-1878, in H. Ex. Docs. 1, 43C, 2S, 44C, IS, 44C, 2S, 45C, IS, 45C, 2S, Serials 1641, 1682, 1751, 1802, and 1852.
276. Reports of the Trustees of Public Schools of Washington, 1845-1874, under slightly varying titles, continued as Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the District of Columbia, 1875-1879.
277. Rothwell, Andrew, Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, Washington, 1833.
278. Sheahan, James, Corporation Laws of the City of Washington, Washington, 1853.
279. The State Records of North Carolina, 26 vols., ed. Walter Clark, Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1886-1907.
280. Washington Board of Health Nuisances, Broadside, 1856.
281. Webb, William B., The Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington, Washington, 1868.
282. Adams, Abigail, Letters of Mrs. Adams, Wife of John Adams, Boston, 1840.
283. Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams, Modern Library ed., New York, 1931.
284. Autobiography of Amos Kendall, ed. William Stickney, New York, 1872.
285. Autobiography of Peggy Eaton, New York, 1932.
286. Briggs, Emily Edson, The Olivia Letters, Washington, 1906.
287. Corcoran, William Wilson, A Grandfather's Legacy, Washington, 1879.
288. Cutler, William Parker and Julia Perkins, Life, Journals and Correspondence of the Reverend Manasseh Cutler, LL.D., 2 vols., Cincinnati, 1888.
289. De Bacourt, Adolphe Fourier, Souvenirs of a Diplomat, Private Letters from America during the Administrations of Presidents Van Buren, Harrison, and Tyler, New York, 1885.
290. Dodge, Mary A., Gail Hamilton's Life in Letters, ed. H. Augusta Dodge, 2 vols., Boston, 1901.
291. Douglass, Frederick, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, New York, 1893.
292. Fremont, Jessie Benton, Souvenir of My Time, New York, 1887.
293. Gerry, Eldridge, Jr., The Diary of Eldridge Gerry, Jr., New York, 1927.
294. Gobright, Lawrence A., Recollection of Men and Things at Washington during the Third of a Century, 2nd ed., Philadelphia, 1869.
295. Gouverneur, Marian, As I Remember, Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, New York, 1911.
296. Hines, Christian, Early Recollections of Washington City, Washington, 1866.
297. Jeffersonian America, Notes on the United States of America collected in the 1805-6-7- and 11-12, by Sir Augustus John Foster, Bart., ed., Richard Beale Davis, San Marino, California, 1954, cited in the notes, as Foster, Jeffersonian America.
298. King, Horatio, Turning on the Light, Philadelphia, 1895.
299. Langston, John Mercer, From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, or the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from the Old Dominion, Hartford, 1894.
300. Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, The Journal of Latrobe, Being the Notes and Sketches of an Architect, Naturalist and Traveler in the United States from 1796 to 1820, New York, 1905.
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