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    Foundling Left at Smithsonian Castle Door
     
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    Chronology of Smithsonian History
    Title: 
    Foundling Left at Smithsonian Castle Door
    Date: 
    June 1, 1863
    Summary: 
    Mary Henry, daughter of the first Smithsonian Secretary, Joseph Henry, reported in her diary for June 1, 1863, that they "had found an addition to the family in the shape of an infant which had been left at the door of the Institution." The infant's parents were never located, but the event occurred during the Civil War, creating major disruption in the City of Washington. The Henry family kept the baby boy for a few weeks in their quarters in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Castle, but then took him to an orphanage. He would occasionally visit the Henrys over the course of the next two years, but then is not mentioned again. The Henrys had recently lost their only son, William, to what was probably typhoid, but did not keep the foundling.
    Citation: 
    The Smithsonian "Torch," December 1966, p. 3.
    Smithsonian Institution Archives, RU 7001, The Papers of Joseph Henry, Mary Henry Diary for 1863
    Year: 
    1863
    Notes: 
    Photograph of east wing of Smithsonian Castle, early 1860s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative number 82-3288.
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    Henry, Mary Anna, 1834-1903
    Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
    Henry, William Alexander 1831-1862
    Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
    Orphans
    Foundlings
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
    Washington (D.C.)
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    Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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