The Burning of the White House

by Jane Hampton Cook

  So, allow me again to borrow a line from Mrs. Madison, to thank you all, with all my heart, for the trouble you have taken to oblige and accommodate me.

  —Jane Hampton Cook

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  Notes

  AUTHOR’S NOTE

  1.Allow me again: Holly C. Shulman ed., Dolley Madison Digital Edition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press), http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/.

  PART I—1813: A FIERY PRELUDE

  1.If our first struggle: James Madison, The Writings of James Madison: 1808–1819 vol. 3, (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908), 407.

  CHAPTER 1—THE PIRATE

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  3.or five hundred dollars: Ibid.

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  5.their fire rather: Ibid.

  6.I observed guns: Ibid., 341.

  7.This of course: Ibid.

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