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Letter signed Mary Beck, Louisville, to My Dear Maria [von Phul], St. Louis. Regarding my paintings on exhibit here in Louisville. This “yellow part” I fear will impede [Louisvillle’s] rapid advances in some measure, until the citizens can enact quarantine laws and repair their stagnant pools. Since I have been here Joanna has been very ill with dysentery. She is now getting better but looks exactly like poor Emmelene before he died. Today my little Georgeane is seized with the same disorder., 1823 June 15

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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. The collection also...
Dates: 1823 June 15