Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed A.M. von Phul, [Chaumiere], to My Dear Sister [Mrs. Von Phul], St. Louis. Welcoming you into the family. I enclose small butterfly which I sketched from nature, a trifle in itself and only presented as an offering of friendship., 1816 July 4
Item — Box: 1
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.
The collection also...
Dates:
1816 July 4