An autobiography / by Edward Livingston Trudeau.

  • Edward Livingston Trudeau
Date:
1916
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Credit: An autobiography / by Edward Livingston Trudeau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    children. It is not in Baltimore, as we were compelled to intrust most of our belongings to the care of our relatives in New Orleans when we came here to visit my sister, not knowing how long we would remain. Our cousin Mr. L. A. Bringier has the portrait. I will write to him very soon. Believe me, ‘Very truly yours, “Felicie Bringier.” “Hills Forest, Maryland Co., Md., “July 28, 1911. “Dear Eddie: “I was so delighted to hear that the portrait had got to you in good condition and was a source of pleasure. I am sorry I cannot tell you the date when it was painted; but from some state¬ ments of your dear father’s that I recall, I should surmise it was in the forties, as he was with Fremont on his expedition to the Rocky Moun¬ tains, and stopped on his return with the Osage Indians (where he remained two years), they having sent a deputy of their young bloods to meet and invite him to visit their settlement when they learned that a Trudeau was of the party. Your great-grandfather, Mr. Zenon Tru¬ deau, when Governor of SLes 111111018’, in sailing down the Mississippi in his barge from St. Louis to New Orleans, had rescued an Osage chief who had been wounded in a fight on the banks of the river, taken him to his plantation, had
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