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OCR Page 1 of 3"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES ANO
RECORDS
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GOVERNMENT
Copied March 10, 1955, from memorandum in President's handwriting:
Extract from a letter of Dolly Madison to her sister dated Tuesday,
August 23, 1814.
After telling of the departure of her husband with General Winder
and using her spy glass watching for the President's return on Wednesday
at noon, she goes on at 3 o'clock to say:
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Our kind friend, Mr. Carroll, has come to hasten my departure,
and is in a very bad humor with me because I insist on waiting until the
large picture of General Washington is secured; and it requires to be un-
screwed from the wall. The process was found too tedious for these perilous
moments; I have ordered the frame to be broken and the canvass taken out;
it is done, and the precious portrait placed in the hands of two gentlemen
of New York for safe-keeping. *
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There were always stories going while I was in the White House that
Dolly had cut the picture from the frame, rolled it up and carried it away
under her dress.
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