Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, Cloverfields, Virginia, to Mist. Lucy Marks, the care of J.T. Gilmore, Georgia. States that he met with no accident on the road and arrived at Uncle Gilmer’s the day before Christmas. He discusses various family members, business prospects and the smallpox epidemic in Richmond “which rages with great violence.” He hopes that Reuben is at school and, though he is not at the moment, he and Robert Lewis have applied to Mr. Maury who could not take them until the next spring, and to Mr. Waddle who has no school at present and is not willing to take them. If Uncle Lewis cannot prevail upon Mr. Waddle to take them, they will go to Mr. Williamson, a Scotchman, who teaches within about ten miles of Cloverfields. They have been waiting for three weeks. (3 pages, transcript included), ca. 1791

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)

Dates

ca. 1791

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