New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
Miss c. ID. Sedgwick
To Wed i'm Church
Among Berkshires
Ceremony Will Be Followed
by reception in Historic
Mansion; Lenox Club
Holds Its Annual Meeting
Special Dispatch to Tho Tribune

BERKSHIRE HILLS, Mass, July s.
The wedding of Miss Christina D.
Sedgwick, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander Sedgwick, 20 MIR. John P.
Marquand, Of Wilmington, Del, author
OF The Unspeakable Gentleman" will
take place at St. Pau's Episcopal
Church in Stockbridge on Saturday,
September 9, with a reception at the
Sedgwick mansion built in 1885 by
Judge Theodore Sedgwick and which
for many years was the home of his
daughter, Miss Catherine Minot Sede-
wick, the most famous of early Ameri-
can woman authors.
IN the garret of the red-painted
Sedgwlck mansion, surrounded by great
trees and which always has been in
the Sedgwick family, Mr.. Alexander
Sedgwick discovered several DAYS ago
a wealth of historic literature consist
Ing OF letters and manuscripts from the
period between 1852 and 184O. In a
trunk that had been unopened for sixty
years he found letters written by
George Washington at Morristown, N.
j.; letters from Jonathan Edwards.
author of the Freedom of the wiz
General Philip Schuyler and Samuel
Gray Otis. There was the last letter
ever written by Alexander Hamilton
with note on the outside in Judge
Sedgw1ck's handwriting, stating that
aamliton was shot the following day.
The oldest letter is one written hv
Joshua Moody to Rev. Samuel Pbillins
1t IS dated March IL, 1882. Catherine
NJ Sedgwlck's story of her life in the
man M SION where she was born December
20, !IS9, is in her own handwriting in
Httle book. SO much material has
come TO light that Mr.. Sedgwick is to
nave II catalogued by Mr.. Worthing
ton Ford, president of the Massachn-
sets Historical Society.
The Lenox Club, whose annual meet-
ing was held on Tuesday, was organ
lzed IN 1864, and since incorporation
IN 1874, its presidents have been NJ
M. Edward Rogers, Mr.. William R
E6obeson, Mr.. John Winthrop, Mr.. John
>; barnes, Mr.. Richard C. Greenleaf
NJ Mr. George W. Folsom and Mr.. Giraud
roster. For years it has been the
leading social organization of Lenox.
The clubhouse, which was formnriv
the villa of the late DR.. Greenleaf. is
IN a beautiful park and is reached
from Yokun Avenue by winding
drive of great trees.
Inc Hopkins-Searles mansion at
Great harrington aroused the interest
OF many summer visitors this week
When 1t was opened to the public for
o'AS AZ 81 IliHc III thirty years, Thew
saw the carved oak drawing room in
the period of Louis XIV, which was
constructed in Paris and brought to
Great harrington in sections; they saw
the atrium, one of the finest examples
OF Greek Ionic architecture in this
country; they saw the Corinthian
organ hall, reached by vestibule of
rose OF ivory marble; the dining room
Of antique. English oak, the breakfast
room finished in solid mahogany, the
smoking room with a Verde Maurin
marble mantel, and a score Of other
gorgeous rooms.
Mrs. Hopkins spent $4,000, 900 in the
construction of this mansion in French
renaissance. 1t was completed in 1888
francisco, Calf, the widow of Mark
Hopkins, with fortune of $4,000, ,oO0
Two years later, when seventy years
of age, she married Mr.. Edward F.
Searles, New York interior decorator,
who had been her adviser at Mob Hill
and again in Great Darlington. Mrs.
Hopkins early in life attended school
On the site Of the mansion. 1t was.
part of the residuary estate left by
Mr.. Searles, who died two years ago,
to Mr. Albert T. Walker, of New York,
who sold it, with 100 acres of land, to
Great harrington syndicate for
S65,Oo0.
Mrs Charles T. Dillingham;, Of New
York, is at the Berkshire Inn, Great
Darlington Among others there are
Mrs. Aldace Walker, Mr. Roberts
Walker, Miss Katharine Walker, Mr..
and Mrs. Russell L. Engs, Mr.. and Mrs.
William B. Nisbet, who recently sold
their place, Lone Pine Farm, and who
are to spend portion of the summer
in the Adirondacks; Mrs. Edward j;
Brown, Mr.. Kendall Stearns, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. E. Stone, of New York; Mr.. and Mrs.
William E. Farnham, of East Orange,
N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs. E. V. Bristol, of
Glen Ridge, N. j., and Mrs. William
Ross Cushman, of Bryn -Iawr, Pa.
Among those who have entered the
tournament at the Wyantenuck Coun-
try Club in Great Darlington are Mrs.
John H. C. Church and her daughter,
Miss Mary Church, whose wedding to
Mr.. Donald M. Weston, of Pittsfield, is
to take place this fall; Mrs. John
Dodge Peters. Mrs. l. c. Bates Dana,
Mrs. Denison NJ Dana, Mrs. John Shep-
ard, Mrs. David Ives Mackie and the
Misses Marion, Martha ard Virginia
Ticknor.
Mr.. Lindell r. Bates, of New York.
who recently sold Lebanon Lodge, the
estate of his mother, Mrs. Lindon w.
Bates, on Lebanon Mountain, near
Pittsfield, is staying at the. Aspinwall
Hotel at Lenox before he sails for
London on July IS. He expects to
ioin his parents in Paris.