Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, Audley, to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson

Containers:
Box 6, Folder 1849.12.04
Creator:
Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
Scope and content:

Nelly was visiting for 4 months with friends and relatives in "the lower Country." Spent 3 weeks with Mrs. Mason of Colross. Parke safe from cholera, but many slaves dead. Speaks of baby [of Mrs. McCalls?]; she named it "Zacha the best of Babes, after the noblest of living men." Parke's 2 daughters at home in Louisiana again. Charley and Lewis Conrad are at school in Georgetown. The twins, Lawrence Fielding and John Redman Coxe Lewis, are in school in Alexandria.

Language:
English .

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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