The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-08

STATE At THE CENTENNIALLEYTERE
INGe MEMORIALS OF WAsHrNGToN-yAL-
UABLE T1oNS-UNpUBLTsHED HIS
| TORY OF VIRGINIA BY EDAUED RAN
| DOLPH
At the last regular monthly meeting Of
the Executive Committee Of the Virginia
Historical Society there were present Judge
| b. Il. Wexford, chairman; r. 4. Brock,
corresponding secretary; Major G. A.
Barksdale, recording secretary William
Writ Henry, Colonel FL. Cealter Cabell,
Colonel Archer Anderson, and DR.. William
e. Palmer.
Valuable donations were reported.
OF books and pamphlets
From the New England Historic-Genea
ogicTSsciety.
The New York Historical Society Co..
lections 1882, twenty volumes bound and
mound -
William A. Whitehead, Esqs Of Newark,
n. j.: Two bound volumes and ten pamph-
lets from his pen.
Rev. E. A. Dalrymple, D. D., Baltimore,
Md: McMahon's History OF Maryland, and
Memoirs OF Rev. William Sparrow, D. D.
OF newspapers
| The regular issue OF the Fredericlcsburg
NeWs from the editor and proprietor, a. A.
Little, Esq, and from Col. j. Thomas
Scharf, Baltimore, Nd, copy OF the Cdtho-
tic Mirror, containing an article by him.
Also the following interesting relics:
From W. a. Spotswood, Esq, Peters
burg, Va: A manuscript document dated
1719, and signed by Governor Spotswood,
neatly framed.
From Judge B. r. Wexford. A copy OF
the Virginia Almanac for 1751, formerly the
property Of John Blair, president OF the
Colonial Council Tin the absence of the Gov
ernor e1-oficiO filing that office, and inter-
leaved with 4 diary Of Mr. Blair, kept
throughout the year, and the Constitution,
&C., Of the First Independent Church,
Richmond, 1881. and the following articles
through Judge Wexford: From Chapman
j. Maupin, Esq, Baltimore, Md. Original
manuscript subscription-liSt towards the
building of the Monumental church in 1872.
From Mrs. Susan L. TaIaferro: 4 manu-
script diary of Colonel William Byrd-the
record Of the name kept in shorthand
during the year Ill.,
The following members were elected:
Corresponding, H. FL. Morgan, Esq, st.
Louis, Mo-; regular, John OFT, Esq, Rich
mond, Va. And the following nominations
made BY Mr.. Brock: For honorary men,
Der, Professor Joseph Henry, LII. D., Wash
ington, D. c.; for corresponding member,
John Ward Dean, Esq, Boston, Mass. BY
Mr.. Henry: For regular members, Rev. ii.
G. Alexander, D. D., Hampden Sidney Col
lege, and Captain F. D. Irving, Cumberland
county.
A life-membership subscription OF $50
was reported by Colonel S. McRae as hay
ing been received from John Stewart, Esq,
Richmond, Va.
4 letter from Colonel Frank N. Etting,
chief of the Historical Department Of the
Centennial Commission, Philadelphia, was
read by Mr.. Brock. Colonel Etting writes:
"yirginia will be represented very well.
or Washington alone l shall have such 4
collection as was never. before brought to-
gether." He calls attention to the following
list enclosed, printed in 1898 and 1884, by
John G. Chapman, for the late James X.
Paulding:
No. l. Copy of C. W. Peale's portrait OF
Washington, aged forty, as colonel OF Pro-
vincials.
No.2. Residence of Washington's mother,
at Fredericksburg, Va.
No. 3. Site OF the house where Washing
ton was born, on Bridges creek, Va. with
view OF the Potomac and Maryland shore.
No. 4. Site of an old mansion OF the
Washington family, opposite Frcdericks-
burg, with meadow sloping to the Kappa
hammock. Washington's boyhood was passed
here.
No. 5. Mount Vernon as seen from the
Potomac.
No. G. View Of Yorktown heights.
No. 7. House in which the capitulation OF
Yorktown was signed.
No. S. Locality where the army OF Corn
wallis laid down their arms.
No. Q. The bedroom OF Washington at
! Mount Vernon rs it was at the time OF his
death; drawn on the spot by permission
OF Mrs. John Washington.
No. 10. The old tomb at Mount Vernon;
the Potomac seen through the trees.
Colonel Etting continues: "BeSldes, l
shall have the originals by Stuart, Vert
muller, Pine, Robertson, Charles Wilson
Peale: even to the very miniature worn by
Mrs. Washington, and one case full OF his
personal belongings.
"I have already all original portrait OF
Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Pendleton,
Sneaker Robinson, StuartS best portrait OF
Jefferson and of Madison, and quite num-
Der of others. / want one OF Patrick
Henry and whatever personal souvenirs can
be sent of his. A portrait, the original
stamp-act resolution drawn by the orator IN
1865 in the House of Burgesses, and an ac-
count-book, covering portions OF ms mer-
camille and legal career, will be forwarded
by his grandson, William Writ Henry, Esq.J
The portrait OF Thomas Nelson, DR., that
Mrs. Griffith has-Miss Page that was-can
YOU not secure the loan OF tins! NlIs.
Griffith resides in Gloucester county, anu II
is hoped that she will aid our grand Ma
tional Exposition, which bids fair to surpasS
all similar exhibitions previously held IN
any quarter OF the world.l Imust not forget
also to tell you that have here portrait OF
George Mason and the table on when ne
wrote the Bill of Rights-[the original doc
ument is in our State Library]-and por-
trait of Pocahontas by Sully [Thomas sully j.
copied from that at Boiling Hall.
"The plan Of the Historical Department Is
to bring out the colonial and revolutionary
history of each State oUectirely to the eye
by means OF portraits, paintings OF events,
personal belongings, souvenirs, and OF any
thing which will show the events in the Or
der in which they occurred, and the manner
Of living and occupation OF the early colo
nists.
"The walls will be appropriated to histori-
cal paintings and to portraits of individuals,
arranged chronologically; in front OF which
will be placed plate-glass cases, for the re-
ception OF such articles as will give reality to
the portraiture and correspond in arrange
ment with the epochs, as displayed on the
wall.
"The cases will be upright, four feet by ten,
and five feet high, and, whena society or an
individual will fill one, will be exclusively
appropriated accordingly. When that can
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