Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 1835

Containers:
Box 5, Folder 1835.03.23
Creator:
Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
Language:
English.
Scope and content:

Nelly fears she and Mr. Lewis will never live in Philadelphia. Both in very poor health and crops very bad. Mr. Lewis intends to buy a small place in Louisiana, remove the negroes and try to make cotton crop. Winter in Louisiana very bad and Ed Butler's crops suffered. Charles Conrad writes weekly. New Orleans improves much "and if we escape war with France it will continue to do so." America Peter Williams has another daughter. Nelly is busy working cover for Angela's piano "on canvas and cloth in cruels".

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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