Hannah Farnsworth to Margaret Comegys

Containers:
Box 73
Creator:
Farnsworth, Hannah Blake, 1802-1879 and Comegys, Margaret Douglass, 1816-1888
Scope and content:

A.L.S. New Rochelle. No word received from Regent or Mrs. Tiffey since last Council. Replied promptly to Regent's Appeal for funds for improvements. No funds on hand, no prospects, except several $50 endowment fund pledges, told to collect and send treasurer. Suggests using endowment fund for repairs as Mount Vernon will doubtless go to U.S. Government after Regent's death. Mr. Corcoran's offer to rebuild summer house (on site of old Ice House), should be reproduction of original. Lossing's picture is the only authority. Another tribute might be better. Majority of Vice Regents favor Council in fall. Deplores loss of Vice Regents Van Antwerp and Ritchie. ER-17, p. 169

Language:
English .

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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