Ann Pamela Cunningham to Margaret Comegys

Containers:
Box 65
Creator:
Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 1816-1875 and Comegys, Margaret Douglass, 1816-1888
Scope and content:

A.L.S. Mount Vernon. "Burn this." Also includes handwritten extract of the letter. Much of the letter has been crossed out. Miss Mrs. Comegys greatly and wishes she could visit. Daily boat a success and boat receipts have increased despite bad weather. They are short two servants, have only one woman to wash, attend house and dairy. Mrs. Morse is at Mount Vernon. Receipts for month are $486.56 against $302 last year, sales increased, made $75 on photographs, $44 for flowers. Compares her sales with Miss Tracy's. Visitors are destructive; officers sent five soldiers from neighboring fort to protect property, each paid 25 cents per day. Mentions Appeal to rich for an endowment. The fort's band plays twice a week. Reports continued personal losses. ER-17, p. 145

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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