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Start Over Collection Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933 Names Washington, Eleanor Love Selden, 1824-1860 Level Item

Letter, Dolley Payne Madison to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, 1843 Box 65, Folder 1844.05.04

A.L.S. 1 page. Asks her kindness in receiving "these interesting ladies and their accompanying gentlemen" at Mt. Vernon. Name on original manuscript appears as "D. P. Madison." Autograph letter signed, embossed mark in upper left hand corner (crown).

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 65, 1843/1844

Letter, Jane Charlotte Blackburn Washington to John Augustine Washington III, 1854 Box 73, Folder 1854.01.20

Autograph letter signed with envelope. Jane congratulates John Augustine and his wife Nelly on the birth of their son Lawrence Washington. She also writes about the murder of her relative, Thomas Blackburn. Blackburn was fatally stabbed by another student while a cadet at VMI in Lexington.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 73, 1852/1854

Letter, John Augustine Washington III to Eleanor Love Selden Washington, 1859 Box 76, Folder 1859.02.25

Includes negotiations for purchase of negro boy that was delayed. Instructs West to make a strong box for sending plows to Waveland and to mend the windows of the hot beds.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 76, 1858/1859

Letter, John Augustine Washington III to Eleanor L.S. Washington, 1844 Box 66, Folder 1844.11.26

A.L.S. 3 1/4 pages. Copy. Mount Vernon. John gives his cousin calculations on the future value of her servants. He advises her not to sell them now. 1st page has cover embossing W. H. Harrison log cabin - 1840.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 66, 1844/1845

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