HPO Monthly Public Notice - April 2019
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Re: Query - Buchanan administration era social circles in Washington DC
Here are a few suggestions for the context of 1850s Washington DC.
This book may prove insightful
Washington BrotherhoodPolitics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War
By Rachel A. Shelden
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469610863/washington-brotherhood/
This too, as more of a primary source:
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, 1830-1912
Preliminary List of Submissions for Old Georgetown Board Meeting of May 2, 2019
Greetings: The preliminary list of submissions in the Georgetown Historic District received that may be considered at the next meeting of the Old Georgetown Board, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts on May 2, 2019 may be found at the following web page: http://planning.dc.gov/node/1127097 .
Re: Query - Buchanan administration era social circles in Washington DC
You might explore the relationship between President Buchanan and Jacqueline Pendleton, daughter of architect Robert Mills and wife of gambler Edward Pendleton. Edward Pendleton was on close terms with much of D.C.'s political elite and was a lobbyist as well. Jacqueline Pendleton was a close friend of Buchanan, who attended her funeral and wrote a eulogy for her, which appeared in the National Intelligencer. She traveled to France and was rumored to have carried on discreet diplomacy between the French and U.S. governments.
M. Herlong