Evening star., 1931-12-10
LEE LOAN EXHIBIT
WILL CLOSE TODAY
First-Day Attendance at Dis
play Is Small Owing
to Weather.

The second day of the Lee Loan Ex-
hibition of historic Virginia antiques
opened here this morning at the Textile
Museum, where yesterday approximately
200 persons from Washington, Virginia
and Maryland examined the rare collec-
ton Of articles associated with the Lee,
Jefferson, Washington, Carter and other
renowned Virginia families.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Mrs. woodrow
Wilson and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg were
among the distinguished visitors who
called yesterday at the exhibit rooms
1880 s street, and many Of the guests
came from as far as Richmond W.
The small volume of first-day at
tendance was attributed to the inclement
weather rather than lack of public in
terest in the display of silver, costumes
furniture, portraits and other memora-
bilia never before exhibited.
Before the doors close at 10 o'clock
tonight, and these rare articles return
to the ancestral domains, 1t is expected
that much larger attendance viii be
recorded. All proceeds will be con-
tributed to the Robert z. Lee Founda-
ton for the purchase Of Stratford, home
OF many generations of Lees, for con-
Outstanding Attractions.
Among the attractions receiving
marked attention from visitors to the
exhibit are the historic costumes. These
include a dress worn by cne of the
bridesmaids at the wedding of Robert
E. Lee and Mary Ann Randolph Custis;
vest worn by Arthur Lee at the court
OF Louis XVI, when commissioner from
the United States In TITS; shawl be-
longing to Martha Washington; a pair
OF gloves which Gen. Lafayette lost on
a horse race bet with young lady in
1874 a party dress worn by Mrs. Robert
+: Lee, and other interesting examples
OF eighteenth and nineteenth century
clothing.
:, The miscellaneous objects include
the seal Of John Robinson, Speaker of
tne House Of Burgesses, who cried
treason" when Patrick Henry said
GlVe me liberty or give me death; a
cup awarded as prize at the first
morse snow ever held in America, at
opperVllle, Va, in 1858; the seal ring
worn by Richard Henry Lee when he
signed the Declaration of Independ-
ence, set OF table knives, the gift of
LOUIS XVI of France to Arthur Lee.
and set of china originally ordered
lor the Society of Cincinnati, an or
ganization composed solely of officers
In the American Revolution.
"A table designed by the versatile
Ihomas Jefferson is outstanding among
the furniture exhibits.
Pictures Connect Families.
An extraordinary narrative lies be-
hind the presence of two miniatures
Whlch hang side by side at the n1u-
scum. One Is labeled Mrs. George
lszaard," the ether Mrs. Thomas Lee
Shippen." They are obviously like-
nesses OF the same woman, but were
entered as heirlooms of two different
local families. And each was done by
different artist.
investigation of the coincidence dis
closed that Mrs. Iszaard was thrice mar
rled and had Cne miniature made for
each husband. The third portrait, which
was the original Of the two displayed
mere, Is IN Nice, France Apparently
the lady had it made for her first
spouse, and various artists copied it for
each succeeding one.
visitors to the museum Yesterday in
GUIDED Senator and Mrs. Harry Hawes.
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs. Du Pont
Lee, former Gov. and Mrs. Montague of
virginia, and Blair Lee, as well as mem
bers OF the committee sponsoring the
event, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison. Mrs
Cazenove Lee, Mrs. Brooke Lee. Mrs
Lioyo Snlppen, Mrs. Morgan Beach and
others. "