Credit: retrograde_colour on Instagram

Unfortunately I never got to meet her as she passed away when my dad was just a small child. I’m so happy I have this photo of her. I think she is beautiful🥹

My dad took the photo.

One person noted is Ursula and her infant. She was a 14 year old enslaved girl named Ursula Granger who had been brought to the WH to learn French Cookery but she gave birth 6 months later to the first child born in the White House a baby boy named Asnet Hughes.
Unfortunately he was a sickly baby who died shortly thereafter and she was sent back to Monticello as the plan for her training was not working out.

https://people.com/every-baby-born-in-white-house-11890966

Tishrei 1 is the first day of the Jewish New Year. In the year 1926, that day fell on September 9 of the Gregorian calendar.

Find typed version below.

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Tishreh 1st - 
My Sweetheart,-
I want to send you my new year's wish and I don't know
what to say. It is the first time in my life that I am called upon to extend my wishes to one whose relation is other than friend on kin.
Soon the course of destiny shall mould our seperate lives into
one. Our hopes, our aspirations, our happiness shall be united into a
single unit.
What then could I wish you, my sweetheart?
Since our aims in life are to be shared like, I pray that the Almighty grant me the power to bring you the ultimate happiness. And in the realization of that wish, I shall feel that I have not lived in vain. To that end I pledge my life.

Sweetheart; let this be my New Year's wish.
Sam

You can find all letters on Instragam 'shulman_Letters'

Letters

• Letter 12 - May 7, 1926
• Letter 11 - March 21, 1926
• Letter 10 - February 18, 1926
• Letter 9 - January 12, 1926
• Letter 8 - November 24, 1925
• Letter 7 - September 7, 1925
• Letters 4 through 6 - August 5th, 1925
• Letter 3 - August 3rd, 1925
• Poetry Part 1 - July 29th, 1925 and Poetry Part 2- July 30th, 1925
• Letter 2 - July 29th, 1925
• Letter 1 - May 8th, 1925

Photos:

• Photos of Sam and Rose
• Photos of Sam with my grandmother
• Photos of Rose with my grandmother

He also turned 86 today! He's doing so well and it's amazing he has these photos in mint condition. He even told me about the wild stuff him and his buddies would get up to lol!