Monroe-Hay family papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Monroe-Hay Family Papers, Ashlawn. Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.20 Linear Feet
Creator:
Hay, Eliza Kortright Monroe, de Beauharnais, Hortense, b. 1783, and Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Language:
French English
Preferred citation:

Monroe-Hay Family Papers, Ashlawn. Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1795-1834 and undated of Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (1787-1840), daughter of U.S. President James Monroe. The collection includes letters written by and to Hay and to her father James Monroe. Correspondents include her former teacher Madame [Jeanne Louise Henriette] Campan, her daughter Hortensia M. Rogers of "Druid Hill" near Baltimore, Maryland, her son-in-law Lloyd N. Rogers as well as the daughter of the Marquis de Lafayette, Marie Antoinette Virginie de Lafayette Lasteyrie du Saillant. Subjects include the debts and final illness of James Monroe, the final illness of George Hay, the possible sale by the Hay family of "Ashfield," [near Richmond, Virginia], the aftermath of the French Revolution, Hortense de Beauharnais (the stepdaughter of Napoleon and the mother of Napoleon III), Samuel L. Gouverneur and his wife Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur, Tench Ringgold, and Egbert Read Watson.

Biographical / historical:

Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay (December, 1786 - 1835 or 1840?) daughter of President James Monroe (1758-1831). She married George Hay (1765-1830) and had one child.

Acquisition information:
Deposited by James Monroe's Highland (Ash Lawn-Highland) on February 13, 2003.
Processing information:

Processed by Susan A. Riggs in 2003.

Arrangement:

Chronological.

Physical description:
28 items
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard