Ferment, Mrs. Felecite Gayoso, New Orleans, Louisiana to Brother Maurelian, F.S.C., Chicago, Illinois, 1893 May 01

She has a number of relics she wishes to exhibit at the Fair with a view to selling them. They are a miniature painting of Isabella and Ferdinand; a miniature of her grandfather Gov. Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; last Spanish governor of Louisiana; a ring; a curious hair pin which represents a dream of her grandfather. She has the Gayoso geneology which dates back farther than Isabella. She has also a sugar sprinkler which she inherited from her great-great-great grandfather Sir Robert Assheton who came to America with William Penn in 1682 and was Provincial Councillor of Philadelphia and a kinsman of Penn. Her mother is descended from a brother of Juan Perez O.F.M. who offered to Isabella the money to equip Columbus. Her mother is also a descendent of the Beauregards. Elias Beauregard was sent to Virginia to obtain money for General Washington; Elias loaned $2000 to equip Col. Richard Montgomery's troops. Her mother's grandfather Manuel de Perez was military governor of St. Louis. Considering her ancestors she deserves some recognition which she failde to receive from the ladies in charge of the Louisiana exhibit. :: XI-1-k A.L.S. 8pp.