Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis, Woodlawn, to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, Philadelphia, 1823

Containers:
Box 3, Folder 1823.03.20
Creator:
Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
Scope and content:

Nelly encloses $10, $9 for 6 pair of shoes, and $1 for "a seal, or an ornament for a watch," that they saw together in a Philadelphia shop, some mother-of-pearl shaped like "a monkey holding a gilt glass." If this is more than $1, substitute gold binding of sketched pattern. She sends a box of woodbine and encloses here instructions on its planting. Mr. Lewis has been very ill. Nelly begs her to come to Woodlawn in late April when woodbine blooms.

Language:
English.

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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