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. Fragment, incomplete letter. Re leniency with Regent's household expenses since she works with illnesses. Wonders who could follow as Regent. Mr. Corcoran is ill, thinks "temple" he offered should be built at once. Could Mrs. Eve undertake this? She fears endowment funds will not be finished. Asks about living expenses of Nathan's family, Regent, maid, invited guests. Asks about successor for Secretary Tiffey. Portrait Mrs. Comegys "generously undertook to procure" is acceptable to Vice Regents and reasonable in price. Asks if repairs and furnishings have taken from "simple grandeur of Mansion." Lambdin promised Association a portrait of Washington. Thinks Stuart's is the best. Does not vote for purchasing portraits from Washington's family. Mrs. Rogers of "Havre de Grasse offers white satin vest" of Washington. ER-17, p. 173

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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