Episode 23 - Where Decent Nature Spreads A Shade - a podcast by Hum. Servt

Rosalie Stier Calvert to Marie Louise Stier, Riversdale, March 2 1804.

In which"Madame Bonaparte"(Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte) scandalizes Washington by showing up to a party pretty much undressed, by U.S. fashion standards. Thomas Law, of course, writes a dirty poem about it. Aaron Burr is also involved.

Thank you SO MUCH to my amazing guest, Dr. Cassandra Good. Everyone buy and read her book!The Letter:

Callcott, Margaret Law, ed., Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 77-78.More from Dr. Good:

Good, Cassandra A. 2015. Founding friendships: friendships between men and women in the early American republic. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.https://cassandragoodhistorian.com/

Resources:Louisa Catherine Johnston Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 Feb. 1804, Early Access Document, Adams Family Papers.

Boyer Lewis, Charlene M. Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.Also see her objects at Maryland Center for History and culture: https://www.mdhistory.org/digital-resource/?search=elizabeth+patterson+bonaparte

Riversdale House Museum: http://www.pgparks.com/3023/Riversdale-House-Museum

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