Letter, Anna Maria Washington Thornton to George Fayette Washington, 1815

Containers:
Box 44, Folder 1815.02.12
Creator:
Washington, George Fayette, 1790-1867 and Thornton, Anna Maria Washington, 1788-1816
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 4 pages. Greenwood. Anna writes to her brother George Fayette of her ill health over a long period -- pain in breast and cough -- describes the medicines she has been taking and efforts to get a doctor from Fredericksburg or elsewhere -- hopes to visit him in summer by packet "if the British will be good enough to keep out of the way." -- writes of her children, Charles and Churchill -- scolds him for not writing. Autograph letter signed, (under cover of letter of March 1) watermark. Name on original manuscript appears as "A. M. Thornton."

Language:
English.

Access and use

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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