[66] _Alexandria Gazette_, August 18, 1812. [67] Allan C. Clark, _Life and Letters of Dolly Madison_, letter from Dolley Madison to her sister Lucy Todd, August 23, 1814. [68] Ethel Stephens Arnett, _Mrs. James Madison: The Incomparable Dolley_ (Greensboro, N.C., Piedmont Press, 1972), p. 238, 243; Dorothy Payne Todd Madison, _Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison_ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c. 1886), p. 108. [69] Clark, _Letters_, Madison to Todd, August 23, 1814. [70] Ibid., August 24, 1814. The portrait was started by Gilbert Stuart and completed by an artist named Winstanley. A footnote on p. 184 quoted from Laura Carter Holloway Langford, _Ladies of the White House_ states: Half a century later, when the White House was undergoing a renovation, this portrait was sent, with many others subsequently added to this solitary collection, to be cleaned and the frame burnished. The artist found on examination that the canvas had never been cut, since the rusted tacks, time-worn frame, and the size compared with the original picture, was the most conclusive evidence that Mrs. Madison did not cut it out with a carving knife, as many traditions have industrially circulated. Matilda Lee Love was the daughter of Ludwell Lee of Belmont in Loudoun County, granddaughter of Richard Henry Lee, and niece of Harriotte Lee Turberville Maffitt. Her mother was Flora, sister of Matilda Lee. According to Mrs. Love's memoirs in the _Lee Chronicle_: Mr. Madison was a relation of my stepmother, Mrs. Lee, and was always very civil to us, and we dined and stayed at the President's several times. My father never would go there, as he opposed the Madisons to the day of his death ... I inherited from my mother, who was very wealthy, a farm near the little Falls of the Potomac, where we were to reside, and which I named Rokeby, after Scott's poem of that name, as Matilda was the heiress of Rokeby. [71] Arnett, _Mrs. James Madison_, pp. 243-46; Lee, _Chronicle_, p. 291. [72] Irving Brant, _James Madison: Commander in Chief, 1812-1836_, pp. 306-8. Brant's error regarding Maffitt's first name has been picked up by Walter Lord, _Dawn's Early Light_, p. 171: "James Madison ... and the rest of the presidential party rode to Salona, the home of the Reverend John Maffitt where Madison now expected to meet his wife," and by Alan Lloyd, _The Scorching of Washington_, p. 170: "Madison crossed the Potomac by ferry-boat, trekking into the adjacent hills toward the emergency rendezvous he had fixed with Carroll: Salona, the home of an ecclesiastical friend named John Maffitt." When Alexandria historian Jean Elliot called Brant's attention to his error in Maffitt's first name, Brant replied to her on July 12, 1973: