Letter, Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Mary Stead Pinckney, 1800

Containers:

Box 1

Creator:

Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852

Scope and content:

Autograph letter signed, 4 pages. Nelly thanks Mrs. Pinckney for the shawl she sent and hopes she can visit Mount Vernon next summer, when Nelly and husband hope to be settled in their own house. She writes about the health of herself, her daughter Frances, and Martha Washington, who had a "bilious fever." She writes of the death of her sister Martha Peter's daughter Eleanor, who was buried in the family vault at Mount Vernon. With an envelope purported to contain Washington's hair.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Correspondence

Names:

Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852

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