From Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton and Others, 12 May 1801
To William Thornton and Others
Tuesday May 12. 1801.
Th: Jefferson requests the favor of Dr. Thornton, Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Bridau’s company to dinner tomorrow at three oclock.
RC (DLC: William Thornton Papers); probably in Meriwether Lewis’s hand; addressed: “Dr Thornton.” Not recorded in SJL.
Dr. Thornton, Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Bridau: William Thornton, his wife Anna Maria Brodeau, and his mother-in-law Ann Brodeau, a former headmistress of a ladies’ boarding school in Philadelphia, lived two blocks east of the President’s House on F Street, NW, from 1797 until William’s death in 1828. James and Dolley Madison and Anna Payne may also have attended the dinner ( , 1:xliv, xlix; TJ to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 11 May 1792; TJ to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 May 1801).