Letter, Zachary Taylor to Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis

Containers:
Box 70, Folder 1849.00.00
Creator:
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 and Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 1 page. Baton Rouge. SummaryAlthough he has never met her, he has long admired her character and virtues as reported by various individuals--knows Col. and Mrs. Butler [E.G.W. Butler and Frances Parke Lewis Butler] very well--they are visiting him now and are in good health--hears that "notwithstanding you had readhed an age that but few attain, you enjoyed and was blessed with unusual good health ..."

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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