Reminiscences of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis by Elizabeth Bordley Gibson

Containers:
Box 72, Folder 1852.08.00
Creator:
Gibson, Elizabeth Bordley, 1777-1863
Scope and content:

A.D. 5 pages. A friend of Nelly Custis Lewis for 58 years, Gibson writes a draft of her memories of Lewis and her relationship with the Washingtons. Martha Washington, her grandmother, implanted "in her mind pure and sound principles" for Nelly's life. Comments on Nelly's beauty, charms, the strength she rec'd from religion and political persuasion. Autograph manuscript, draft.

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
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