Washington, Ella Bassett, 1834-1898

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A.L. Incomplete. Has been busy raising funds for colonnades. Will cost far more than builder's estimate because they are so badly decayed. Has paid $757 and still $157.22 due. Wishes to pay bill before the end of 1875. Matter of Peale portrait of Washington almost settled. ER-6, p. 80

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Copy. Regrets late report. It fails to give sufficient importance to necessity of immediate work on Bill to be presented to U.S. Congress for $100,000 endowment. ER-7, p. 113

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is correspondence to Mrs. Laughton concerning Mount Vernon and the work of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. Other material includes correspondence from Mrs. Laughton, formal reports and papers of the MVLA, personal correspondence and memoirs, photographs, printed material, and ephemera. The overall dates range from 1850 to 1891 with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1860s-1880s.This collection contains correspondence from a significant...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The bulk of this collection is correspondence to Mrs. Laughton concerning Mount Vernon and the work of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. Other material includes correspondence from Mrs. Laughton, formal reports and papers of the MVLA, personal correspondence and memoirs, photographs, printed material, and ephemera. The overall dates range from 1850 to 1891 with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1860s-1880s.This collection contains correspondence from a significant...

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Journal; certificate of her appointment as Vice Regent, signed by APC; obituary