Washington McDonogh to Walter Lowrie

Title: Washington McDonogh to Walter Lowrie
Description: Washington tells that his studies are coming along well.

He read the Bible history through once this summer and it going through it for a second time by reading a chapter or two every night.

"It is almost cold enough to sit by the fire today."

He tells of a poor man killed Monday by an accident. Some workers were raising iron by pulling it from below with a rope. The rope broke and twenty workers escaped except for the one man.
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Original letter at the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Philadelphia)
Identifier: 35
Date: 1840-09-05 00:00:00
Subject: Washington notes the changing seasons and an unfortunate event at Lafayette.
Creator: Washington
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