- Date:
- 1830
- Original Format:
- Fine Print Illustration
- Item#:
- 45.388
Margaret Bayard Smith (1778-1844)
Margaret Bayard Smith was the author of First Forty Years of Washington Society, an important source of information on early Washington social life. She was an early chronicler of Washington society who is significant because she entertained both Whigs, her preference, and her husband's Jeffersonian friends.