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Antiques.(James Madison)
Mr. M[adison] met us in the Portico [of Montpelier] and gave us a cordial welcome. In the Hall Mrs. Madison received me with open arms and that overflowing kindness and affection which seems a part of her nature. We were at first conducted into the Drawing room .... The ... walls are covered with pictures, some very fine, from the ancient masters, but most of them portraits of our most distinguished men, six or eight by Stewart [Stuart] .... It was a charming room, giving activity to the mind, by the historic and classic ideas that it awakened.
Margaret Bayard Smith to Mrs. Boyd, 1828
Piedmont Virginia was thick with presidents during the early nineteenth century. Only ...
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