Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence of the Garrett family of Williamsburg, Va., concerning family and social news, politics, and the Civil War. Earlier letters deal mainly with business and political news, as several Garrett family members, including Richard R. Garrett, Alexander C. Garrett, and Dr. Robert M. Garrett, were involved in the politics of 19th century Virginia. Correspondence of Dr. Robert M. Garrett and his brothers Alexander C. Garrett and B. F. Garrett concerning the sale of "Yardley," Northampton...

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Shares reminisces of her sister, who had not long before passed away; mourns her death; shares information pertaining to the will.

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Scope and Contents Encloses a few more excerpts from the book he is writing about the Civil War; asks her note that "the whole purpose of the book is against war (physical combat) as a method of settling any question among civilized people"; mentions that he "was glad to read... of Mr. Carnegie's gift toward settlement of national questions by arbitration."

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Describes rescuing a Confederate soldier who was laying horribly mutilated in a garret; insisted on visiting the soldier even though he was a Yankee soldier; informs her that he met her father at the bedside of this Confederate soldier; encloses more excerpts of his book on the Civil War; explains that his motivation in writing the book is to represent the War in a non-biased way from a man who was there for the sake of future generations.

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Wishes her a happy birthday; hopes she is continuing to improve herself; describes his trip to New York with members of his family.

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Gives details of her sightseeing in The Hague.

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Reports that the new horse arrived, so they all went for a drive to try him out; is relieved that she goes to visit Van and the children every day while she is away; informs her that Father is looking well and is recovering from his long illness; describes her home there; asks about news of Williamsburg.

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Mentions that he has finished illustrating Mr. Widener's book; sends her the address of Albert Rosenthal so she may write to him about the painting she would like appraised; wonders if the painting is the one of Washington; informs her that Mr. W.E. Havemeyer would pay handsomely for this painting; assures her that if she has not sold it by the time Mr. Widener returns to America, that he will show it to Mr. Widener who may wish to purchase it.

Scope and Contents Advises her to retain Mr. Rosenthal to appraise a tinted portrait of Washington to determine its value and whether it is unique; informs her that if she knows the history of the painting on glass of Lady Hestor Stanhope it would be more valuable than the Washington portrait regardless of whether it was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds or not; informs her that the Earl of Rosebery would almost certainly be interested in her portrait of Lady Stanhope; advises her that if she is not satisfied...

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Has talked to Mr. Henkels and described her portrait of Washington to him; reports that Mr. Henkels believes the portrait to be worth between $800 and $1000 as it is quite rare; describes how to examine the portrait of Lady Stanhope to determine whether it is a stipple engraving varnished and painted onto glass, as Mr. Henkels believes it is; gives information about Mr. Henkels.

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Is glad she had received the advice of Mr. Henkels in addition to the offer of Dr. Rosenbach for the Washington portrait; advises her to use Mr. Henkels' price as leverage for securing a deal with Dr. Rosenbach; reports that Mr. Henkels is also willing to act as her agent in the sale of the portrait.

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Describes his return trip to Williamsburg; reports that everything is nice and green and the crops are quite good; shares news of Williamsburg; informs her that Williamsburg just missed the violent storm that swept up the Atlantic coast on the first.

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Regrets that he will not be able to visit this week after all.

Scope and Contents Could not accept her invitation to visit as his trip to Richmond was quite short; informs her that all of her family are in his thoughts, ever since he left college (William and Mary) in '98; is leaving soon to go to New York with the President (Woodrow Wilson); reports that the President may make a quiet and informal visit to Williamsburg; has spoken to the President about how good she and her family were to him while he was in college; asks her to keep the possible visit of the President...