S.W. Tiffey to Ann Pamela Cunningham, 1869

Containers:
Box 69
Creator:
Tiffey, S.W. and Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 1816-1875
Scope and content:

A.L.S. Mount Vernon. This is her 13th letter to Regent, comments on irregularity of mails. Farm affairs going well. General Michler has not come re Mansion repairs, papering and painting. Walls of Banquet Hall and East Parlor are mended. New greenhouse going well. Suit of clothes not arrived. Mr. Herbert called, opposes spoiling beauty of Banquet Hall with exhibition cases. Working on the well - water problem was acute. Reports on preparations for winter, sale of bouquets, fewer visitors, entertainment of Lord Adare. Mr. Herbert thinks Mr. Gibbs will be a good neighbor. Dr. Howland purchased land below wharf and Georgetown purchaser took fishery, lots Regents wants not sold. Gardener Craig's wife is pleasant and nice to have at the estate. Mrs. Halsted sent china pitcher, bedroom crockery. Two mirrors owned by Van Rensselaer family expected, large one presented by Mrs. James A. Roosevelt, smaller one by Noel Laurel and Antoine of Belgium plate glass work. ER-16, p. 178

Language:
English.

Access and use

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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