Editorial Files of the Dolley Payne Madison Papers project

Content Description

This collection contains the administrative history and editorial files created while editing the Papers of Dolley Payne Madison project. It contains photocopies of correspondence to and from Dolley Payne Madison and other documents such as her will and resolutions for organizations, transcripts, editorial notes, and research. The first box is the project's administrative materials, including Dolley Payne Madison Genealogy, research files, correspondence on project development, grants and fundraising, bibliography, contracts, reviews, and advertising. The following five boxes contain folders of individual letters and project notes organized chronologically. Often appearing correspondents include Edward Coles, Anne Payne, Eliza Collins Lee, Mary E.E. Cutts, Sarah Coles Stevenson, John Payne Todd, and William C. Rives. Madison often wrote with the secretaries of state and their wives as well as different members of the Todd, Cutts, Coles, Morris, and Randolph families, among others. There is correspondence between then-current presidents, such as Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. Patrons can access an inventory of correspondents in each box in the External Document field of this record.

Acquisition Type

Transfer

Provenance

Transferred from John Stagg Editor-in-Chief and Anne Coloney, Senior Research Editor, of the Papers of James Madison, 26 June 2023.

Language of Description

English

Restrictions Apply

Yes