Editing Dolley Madison (section)

==Spelling of her name==
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In the past, biographers and others stated that her given name was ''Dorothea,'' after her aunt, or ''Dorothy,'' and that ''Dolley'' was a nickname. But her birth was registered with the New Garden Friends Meeting under the name ''Dolley,'' and her will of 1841 states "I, Dolly P. Madison".<ref>"Will of Dolly Payne Todd Madison, February 1, 1841", ''Papers of Notable Virginia Families, MS 2988'', Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville Virginia, United States.</ref> According to manuscript evidence and the scholarship of recent biographers, ''Dollie''<!--Surprise spelling needs confirmation--> appears to have been her given name at birth.<ref>Allgor, 415–16</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Richard N. |last=Cote |title=Strength and Honor: the Life of Dolley Madison |location=Mount Pleasant, SC |publisher=Corinthian Books |year=2005 |pages=36–37 |isbn=1-929175-09-4 }}</ref> Printed publications of her day, however, especially newspapers, tended to spell it ''Dolly'': for example, the ''Hallowell (Maine) Gazette'', February 8, 1815, p.&nbsp;4, notes that Congress had allowed "Madame Dolly Madison" an allowance of $14,000 to purchase new furniture; and the New Bedford<!--?--> (MA) of March 3, 1837, p.&nbsp;2, citing important papers from her late husband, said that "Mrs. Dolly Madison" would be paid by the Senate for these historical manuscripts. Several magazines of that time also used the ''Dolly'' spelling, such as ''[[The Knickerbocker]]'', February 1837, p.&nbsp;165; as did many popular magazines of the 1860s–1890s. She was called "Mistress Dolly" in an essay in ''[[Munsey's Magazine]]'' in 1896.<ref>Virginia Cousins, "Old Virginia Homes," Munsey's Magazine, March 1896, p. 714.</ref> Her grandniece Lucia Beverly Cutts, in her ''Memoirs and letters of Dolly Madison: wife of James Madison, president of the United States'' (1896), uses ''Dolly'' consistently throughout.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5qgZAAAAYAAJ |title=Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of . . . - Dolley Madison - Google Books |access-date=September 7, 2016 |last1=Madison |first1=Dolley |year=1896 |archive-date=May 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527164757/https://books.google.com/books?id=5qgZAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>