Nancy Halsted to Lily Macalester Laughton, 1874

Containers:
Box 82
Creator:
Halsted, Nancy Marsh, 1817-1891 and Laughton, Lily Macalester Berghmans, 1832-1891
Language:
English.
Scope and content:

Two incomplete drafts of a letter. Asks Regent to send Hollingsworth information for his Report. Belligerents preparing petition to Virginia legislature to repeal MVLA charter. Council to consider wharf question. Opposes voting by proxy. Wishes glass shade for Bastille model. To be paid for by sale of books, also freight for cow, and printed Appeal to Masons. Expense taken from same fund. Wishes to get a good New York artist to copy portrait of Mary Ball in Metropolitan Art Gallery to be hung in Banquet Hall. ER-7, p. 41 and ER-8, p. 240

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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
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