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John Augustine Washington III and Mount Vernon Ladies' Association (MVLA) collection
Collection — Shelf: Special Collections: Closed Stacks Row 22
Identifier: RM-848
Scope and Contents
This collection concerns the inheritance, maintenance, and sale of the Mount Vernon estate by its last private owner, John Augustine Washington III. A large majority of the collection is correspondence to or from John Augustine Washington III with a significant portion relating to the purchase of the estate by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. Three diaries kept by John Augustine are also included and contain important information about his slaves, agricultural practices, and finances....
Dates:
1834-1957
Papers of Lily Macalester Berghmans Laughton
Collection
Identifier: RM-576
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...
Dates:
1850-1891
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- Names: Cunningham, Ann Pamela, 1816-1875 X
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- Archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association 1
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- Blanding, Magdalen Gordon, 1823-1885 1
- Chace, Abby Wheaton Pearce 1
- Comegys, Margaret Douglass, 1816-1888 1
- Dillon, Luke C., 1836-1904 1
- Dodge, Harrison Howell, 1852-1937 1
- Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 1
- Farnsworth, Hannah Blake, 1802-1879 1
- Halsted, Nancy Marsh, 1817-1891 1
- Harper, Emily L. (Emily Louisa), 1812-1892 1
- Johnston, Harriet Lane, 1830-1903 1
- Laughton, Lily Macalester Berghmans, 1832-1891 1
- Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 1
- Mitchell, Martha Reed, 1818-1902 1
- Ritchie, Anna Cora Mowatt, 1819-1870 1
- Sweat, Margaret J.M. (Margaret Jane Mussey), 1823-1908 1
- Walker, Letitia Morehead, 1823-1908 1
- Washington, Ella Bassett, 1834-1898 1
- Washington, Jane Charlotte Blackburn, 1786-1855 1
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- Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
- 3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
- Mount Vernon, VA 22121
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