Box 1
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Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Philadelphia to Miss Maria von Phul, St. Louis. Commenting on books being published today. My reading has always been desultory. The present facility of obtaining everything only increases the evil and leaves the mind bewildered and poor. A few standard books would enrich the mind more than a thousand volumes of such a nature., 1823 July 20
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.
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Dates:
1823 July 20