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

Containers:
Box 60, Folder 1835.04.01
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. Woodlawn. News of his aunt Mrs. Thruston's death--[Parke] wrote her that he had not yet visited Iberville--news of an Episcopal Bishop in N. Orleans, and laws regarding gambling houses--E.P. Lewis working her a piano cover--"the Sister of Mrs. Washington" is to be married--will cut out a dress for sister--visited a Public Garden in Georgetown. Name on original manuscript appears as "M. E. A. Lewis." Autograph letter signed, integral cover, docketed, postmarked "Alexandria D.C. Apr 2," marked "No. 22," laminated, broken red seal.

A postscript from E.P. Lewis follows: A.L.S. 2 pages. She went to Georgetown in a storm to bring [Angela] home--Ed [Butler] has been very sick since returning from [N. Orleans]. Name on original manuscript appears as "E. P. L." Date on original catalog card appears [1835] [April 1]. Autograph letter initial signed.

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