Box 1

The bearer of the note will leave several objects with her and will collect trunk. Sends best wishes and apologizes for brief note.

Last day for sending letters to New York “by the packet of the fifteenth of this month, and we have not yet begun to write one letter.” Begs that he and his father be allowed to arrive for dinner a little later than her usual hour.

Thanks for “kind and precious gift.”

Thanks for copy of oration delivered by Mr. [George Washington Parke] Custis at the tomb of General Washington on the occasion of Lafayette's visit.

Thanks for ring and letter written by Mrs. Lewis [Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis] on her [Eliza Custis's] behalf.

Sends translations of letters of thanks from Lafayette's family. Refuses her request to act as godmother to Rosebud “I should consider it a profanation to promise before the altar for another what I have never performed myself - to make a solemn vow to renounce for the child those pomps and vanities of the world in which I so much delight.”