The Archive · 1925

Lock of Hair for a Picture

New York, Nov. 20.

A lock of George Washington's hair, inclosed ina crystal med lion, was conditionally. bequeathed to, the Mount Vernon Ladies' As-mediation in the will of Boudinot Keith, lawyer, reformer and a founder of the City Club, who died on October 24, The heirloom will go to the Association if it gives to Mr. Keith's daughter a portrait of Washington willed to the Association by Mr. Keith's aunt. Mr. Keith's great-uncle, Elfas " Boudinot, served on Washington's staft—Reuter's American Servic

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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