Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, No 213 Spruce Street Philadelphia, via New Orleans

Containers:
Box 5, Folder 1834.02.09
Creator:
Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 1779-1852
Scope and content:

Nelly hopes to be in Philadelphia on way home by Lakes and Niagara. Angela has found nothing attractive here in a matrimonial way. Parke and children unable to return east with her in May. Climate very bad on them. Description of landscape and life in springtime. No schools or churches for miles. Sunday, in contrast to northern customs, is a gala day. Indians a few miles off are poor, dirty, and humble. Angela very gay.

Language:
English .

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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