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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n to you for your Picture, gives me cour-age to make the same request, and as / have noother wish nearer my heart than that of possessing Germantown Sept. 14 1794. My dear Betsey. Shall I, in answer to your letterof the 7th instant say — when you are as near thepinnacle of happiness as your sister Patsy conceivesherself to be; or when your candour shines moreconspicuously than it does in that letter, that I willthen comply with the request you have made formy Picture ? No — 1 will grant it without either: — for if thelatter were to be a preliminary, it would be sometime, I apprehend, before that Picture would befound pendant at your breast; it not being withinthe bounds of probability that the contemplation ofan inanimate thing, whatever might be the reflec-tions arising from the possession of it, can be theonly wish of your heart. Respect may place it among the desirable objectsof it, but there are emotions of a softer kind towhich the heart of a girl turned of eighteen is sus-
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MINIATURE OF MARTHA WASHINGTON ON IVORY. (FROM ORIGINAL IN THE POSSESSION OF EDMUND LAW ROGERS.) your likeness ; I hope you will believe me sincerewhen I assure you, it is my first wish to have it inmy power to contemplate, at all times, the featuresof one, who, I so highly respect as the Father of hisCountry and look up to with grateful affection as aparent to myself and family. We are, Dear Sir, at present, in distress, whichmust be my apology for this short letter. Mammaand Patty join me in affection to you with ardentwishes for your health and happiness, I amHonrd Sir your grateful Grand Daughter Eliza P. Custis. To this letter General Washington repliedin the following remarkable and most admi-rable letter, in which he treats of the subjectsof love and matrimony : ceptible, that must have generated much warmerideas, although the fruition of them may apparentlybe more distant than those of your sister. Having (by way of a hint) delivered a sentimentto Patty which may be useful (if

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