The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-20
$4,000 TO LIBRARY
IN MRS. DRAPER WILL
Harvard University Gets St5n..
600 and Many Institu-
tons Remembered.
GIFTS TO MUSEUM OF ART

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Requests Of more than $3.50. 0u0 ,o ..,
New York Public Library. sl50uuu .,
Harvard University and many ether .,..
of money and valuable articles o.. y.r...,
institutions are Included in the u,.f .
Mrs Mary Anna Palmer Draper. u d .......
ter of the late Courtlandt raim,. ..I
widow OF Prof Henry Draper a ...,l
expert on celestial photography. v.p.r.I
IN 1882. Mrs Draper dicd b,t. u..,.r ,
at 2I1 Madison avenue and left an ,..l..
of more than si,OOo.OOo. the bulk OF aa..,
goes to public institutions
Mrs. Diapers first gift 10 tho IuIt,
Library Ia II trust fund OF S5u.uuu. fla
income OF which Ii to be used to as, u
employees OF the library WIN, are 800 ar
disabled. She then gives S2UO,0uu adm.
tional to the library because "it is my do.
sire that n portion Of my estate go %
establish a special fund IN grateful re.ug.
milton of the services and character
John s. Billings who died several ,.,r,
ago and was long associated WIN Oh,
Public Library. This bcuuest Ie o. be
known az the John :. Billings Memorial
Fund for the purchase of book, and
pamphlets and for binding A. ar siI..
tional bequest to the Pubic Library NJ,
Draper gives her reslduary estate up %
5000. 0O0. to establish the Anna Ptm,~
Draper Fund as u mem rial to ucr father
courtlandt Palmer This fund is a.s, o
be used for the purchase OF ho.,. ud
pamphlets and FOR binding
Other Requests 90 Iibrnr,
The will further provides tha' r. o.,
residue exceeds $500. 1904. and II 'le-. .
anything left after payments of $1,000
each have been made TO 'hc Sow Work
Association for the Blind. the Dohus Ferry
Hospital Association and the pobus Ferry
Free Library. one-quartcr of IN" SlTp's
Is To go ~ the Public Library iu ad..
ton to the other requests. Mrs p"ap.r
also gives o. the library h,r po.'-,s
of Dr. John W. Draper and Lo'd ~ IN.
with the letter or the Counties, Quo.
cloi" and such other portraits us -
library may select She also gives .s...l
OF her hooks not specifically h,gu,l'laI
az the library authorities may select
Other personal gifts to tho hpr..v are
The gold medal presented by o." 81
States Government to her husband n
1874 for his services when chosen uv C,a-
gress To- superiuteud the photograph. ds.
partment Of tn commission appointed o
observe the transit Of Venus t'i d p'o.
mas. certificates and memorials presented
TO him. all her engraved gems and ,l.r..
antique cylinders and seals and ihe
screen OF antique Chinese coins Sa,a also
gives the library all her charms. an.g..t..
rosaries. curative bowls "aud aiyt1..-
In my collections relating 'o ro.gp.,.
superstitions or history and all her .t...-
ings, engravnRs and prints which the II.
brary may select.
Mrs Draper who WAS the donor Of
the Draper Memorial to- the Harvard Ob.
servatorl. where her husband VT $3.50
gtu I'D f.,tst
400 bcquest TO the UNIVERSITY &. pro, Ie
for the payment IF $4,000 the mss .e..
after her death and Si.Uuu econ i..'lN '=
year uhtil the to.il has been pad. COP
the purpose Of preserving and rs, >. a
Photographic plates If the draper We.
mortal She also gives the musc,s. tU
her husbands plates aud scientific .irt.
ratus now loaned To- the university
Art Museum Rcmcm bored
To the American Museum OF Natu. o. Ils-
tory Mrs. Draper gives such of her u... .ai
heads OF animals as may he dos o.. ~
to the Metropolitan Museum NJ 49, -
gives two large yellow Chimes, t.,.s
She further gives 20 the Metropolis. MITE
scum the entire contents oc her ....
drawing room. including all IN" f3,' s7.
ings. an Old altar lamp. her ni.,.t'.-t,
not specifically bequeathcd he o.. .,...
one mosaic picture Of the Plu'u,.. ..I
another Of pliny's Doves" and 4. ..g.
opa,csc"nt glass from Syria II g., ..
scum does not accept the NelI,-'
property is to he added To tho pos #...v
estate. but II accepted 'ho MI pro. .e'
fund Of 100000 for the eNha.' .r :
such articles
Other public requests are So;
Ia the Smithsonian Institution. C.r''.~'
Md Society, New Nor', ass. .,'. . -
Improving the Condition of the i..t 90,