Box 1
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Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed Gr. von Phul, Baltimore, to Anna Maria von Phul, Lexington, Kentucky. I stopped into a bookseller’s shop and was offered to read The Lectures of Sir Joshua Reynolds, which is in the private library of the store’s owner. I copied them for you for the work is out of print and cannot be purchased. Discussion of the lectures. (Gift of John Richardson Thomas and Henry von Phul Thomas, St. Louis, January 1954), 1812 Dec 14
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Scope and Contents
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.
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Dates:
1812 Dec 14