Episode 18: Think Me Not Vain - part 1

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

Elizabeth Parke Custis Law to David Baillie Warden, 20 April, 1808. In which Elizabeth Parke Custis Law tells David Baillie Warden PRECISELY why she is no one to be toyed with. This is part 1 of a two part episode, because this letter was so long it took up the whole episode. In two weeks I will post the follow up conversation with me and my talented and knowledgeable guest, Lizzy Thomas. Further Reading: Elizabeth Parke Custis Law: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-parke-custis-law/ The letter itself: Hoyt, William D. "Self-Portrait: Eliza Custis, 1808." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 53, no. 2 (1945): 89-100. Accessed March 2, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4245342.