George W[ashington] P[arke]Custis, "Arlington House" [Arlington, Virginia], to Francis Nelson, "White House, [near] New Kent C[ourt] H[ouse], " Virginia, 1856
- Containers:
- Folder 3
- Extent:
- 2 pages.
- Scope and content:
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Wheat prices are $1.50 to $1.55 while corn is at $2.00; had expressed desire to go to the Richmond fair but discouraged by family because he knew no one there; attended the "Great Exhibition at Philadelphia as Vice President of the United States Agriculture [?] Society for Virginia"; called it "grandest spectacle"; looks forward to "bright days" for lower Virginia with the extension of the new railroad to West Point, [Virginia].
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