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GOVERNMENT > first lady > Rachel Donaldson Jackson
To tell you...
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To tell you of this city, I would not do justice to the subject. The extravagance is in dressing and running to parties. . .
Source: Describing Washington, DC in a letter to friend; in Dames and Daughters of the Young Republic, by Geraldine Brooks, 1901.
-- Rachel Donaldson Jackson, (Jun 15 1767-1828), US first lady; She caused a scandal when she married Andrew Jackson before divorcing her first husband, Lewis Robards.