Letter, Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Charles Conrad

Containers:
Box 68, Folder 1847.08.22
Creator:
Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852 and Conrad, Charles Magill, 1804-1878
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 4 pages. Audley to Newport, Rhode Island. Charley's illness--use of bella donna for the disease [scarlet fever]--arrived with Sissy and Caro [Isabella and Caroline Butler] to find [Lorenzo] ill--his ailments and treatments. Name on original manuscript appears as "E. P. L." Autograph letter initial signed, postmarked "Berryville Va. Aug. 23," laminated.

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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