Letter signed Er. B. Edmunds[?], San Antonio, Texas, to Lt. W. von Phul, Houston, Texas. I took the liberty of giving a friend of mine a letter of introduction to you, Juan Coidra, a Spaniard. He has some ordnance stores he desires to sell to your department. Ramero says that Genl. Drayton and Col. Ford were falling back from Brownville, Cortina has crossed the river and joined the Yankees with 200 men. Nothing official yet. (Gift of John Richardson Thomas and Henry von Phul Thomas, January 1954), 1864 Sept 26

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From the Collection:

The collection contains family correspondence, mainly letters of Anna Maria von Phul, Sarah von Phul (Jordan) Mason, and Graff von Phul to Henry von Phul in St. Louis. The letters mention family news, Anna Maria von Phul’s artwork, soldiers in Lexington just prior to the War of 1812, Henry's business affairs, an 1819 flooding in St. Louis from Chouteau's Pond when the dam gave way, the murder of Elijah Lovejoy, and the Civil War. The collection also contains Graff von Phul's extracts from the first lecture of Sir Joshua Reynolds, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy on January 2, 1769; a deed of emancipation of Richard, dated August 30, 1844; a bill of sale of an enslaved girl dated November 2, 1858; poems, newspaper clippings kept by Anna Maria von Phul, land surveys, Von Phul family genealogy, and a detailed biography and accounts of Henry von Phul.