Letter, Marquis de Lafayette to Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis

Containers:
Box 55, Folder 1830.07.17
Creator:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 and Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 1 page. La Grange to Woodlawn. Internal evidence suggests that this is a postscript to a letter from G.W. Lafayette to Nelly. The elder Lafayette writes that his son (G.W. Lafayette) reelected member of House of Deputies -- anxious about Eliza Custis's health -- hopes "the marriage of Hortensia Monroe, of which I have lately Heard, may procure for her more consolation with respect to her grand children than she has been [ ] to receive from their father." Name on original manuscript appears as "Lafayette." Autograph letter signed, integral cover, postmarked "New York Sept 1", red seal.

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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