Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933 to Mary F. Stoughton
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00785 Author/Creator: Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1878 Pagination: 3 p. ; 20 x 25 cm. Order a Copy
Congratulates Stoughton on the appointment of her husband, Edwin W. Stoughton, to U.S. Minister to Russia (served from 1878-1879). Wishes her well on her trip and asks to be remembered to their Russian friends, particularly Admiral Poisson. In a despondent tone, she notes that "My work absorbs most of my time and I am so fatigued by it I can sleep now. My cousins are living here with me so I am not utterly alone." Written on mourning stationery and signed "Libbie B. Custer." Libbie's husband, George Armstrong Custer, died at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.
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