Letter, Mary Eliza Angela Lewis Conrad and Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Charles Conrad, 1835

Containers:
Box 59, Folder 1835.01.09
Creator:
Conrad, Mary Eliza Angela Lewis, 1813-1839, Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852, and Conrad, Charles Magill, 1804-1878
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 3 pages. Wishes Charles to visit Parke when he next goes up river--news of friends--anecdote of Fanny Kemble, now Mrs. [Pierce] Butler (her efforts to get brown as an Indian at New Port)--weather--river frozen over--has read "Woodstock." Name on original manuscript appears as "M. E. A. Lewis." Autograph letter signed, integral cover, docketed, postmarked "Alexandria D.C. Jan. 10," marked "No. 14," red seal blurred.

A postscript by E.P. Lewis follows. A.L.S. 2 pages. Begs him to break practice of sleeping with window open in winter--has been painting birds from Wilson's Ornithology for Lolen [Lorenzo]--promises to paint Cherry Bird and humming bird for Angela--grandmother's recipe for lip salve, from Glass' Cookery--some oranges have been frozen in storeroom for keeping.

Access and use

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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