Nancy Halsted to James Hollingsworth, 1874

Containers:
Box 81
Creator:
Halsted, Nancy Marsh, 1817-1891 and Hollingsworth, John McHenry, 1823-1889
Language:
English.
Scope and content:

A.L.S. Hillside. Received missing "Record" and her book is now complete. Card table more than 100 yrs. old shipped. Too frail for "Bastille" model but can be used in Banquet Hall. Work on colonnades and South porch. Bibles and Hymn books for the Negroes. Pillow sham to be copied. Have clock cleaned and repaired at her expense. Mr. Barlow to repair painting over mantle. "Washington Before Yorktown" painting needs stretching. Threatened lawsuit over rights to use boat dock seem to have died out. ER-6, p. 56

Access and use

Location of collection:
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
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