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   DOROTHY PAYNE
   _QUAKERESS_

[Illustration: Dorothy Payne Todd.

Courtesy of Miss Lucia B. Cutts.]




   Dorothy Payne, Quakeress

   _A Side-Light upon the Career
   of "Dolly" Madison_

   By ELLA KENT BARNARD

   Philadelphia:
   FERRIS & LEACH
   29 SOUTH SEVENTH ST.
   1909




Dedicated to

ANNIE MATTHEWS KENT




FOREWORD


There is little time in this busy world of ours for reading,--little,
indeed, for thinking;--and there are already many books; but perhaps
these few additional pages relating to Dolly Madison, who was loved and
honored during so many years by our people, may be not altogether amiss.
During eleven administrations she was the intimate friend of our
presidents and their families. What a rare privilege was hers--to be at
home in the families of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison, of Monroe;
to know intimately Hamilton and Burr and Clay and Webster; to live so
close, during her long life, to the heart of our nation; to be swayed by
each pulsation of our national life;--to be indeed a part and parcel of
it all, loved,