Martin Van Buren to Judith Rives, 1 April 1835

In which Martin Van Buren chides his friend Judith Rives about being a Mrs. Nobody, patriotism, abolitionism, and New York tactics.

I am joined this week by my respected colleague and name twin, Kathryn Blizzard. We only reference Seinfeld twice.

REFERENCES:

Martin Van Buren: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Van-Buren

The Martin Van Buren Papers: http://vanburenpapers.org/

My ever beloved source on Parlor Politics: Allgor, Catherine. 2002. Parlor politics: in which the ladies of Washington help build a city and a government. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

"Bring Louis Phillippe to terms": https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a12355/

The Toledo War: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=bgsu1206135823&disposition=inline

Thomas Ritchie ID: https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi00174.xml

The Cabells and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy. Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906, Richmond, Va., Garrett and Massie, 1939, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89058675919.