Name/Title
Lafayette's Visit to GermantownEntry/Object ID
2008.2.1Description
"Lafayette's Visit to Germantown, Charles Francis Jenkins, 1911. Limited edition, numbered (#88) copy. Signed in ink by "Charles F. Jenkins, [12th] mo 19 of 1911" Inscribed "To two good Booklovers, Russell [Hayes]& Emma ." Invitation tipped into front page of book to a Cliveden reception held by Mrs. Chew and Mr. Samuel Chew, on Wednesday, June Tenth, 1914. Written in pencil on the invitation are the phone # of Charles F. Jenkins and Mrs. Samuel Chew.
Book also has noted in ink on 2nd page "September 30, 1966. From the collection of W. Robert Penman, M.D., & Dorothy I. Lansing, M.D., Malvern, Pa. Baldwin's Book Barn Sale"
Pasted inside back book board is a typed letter from CFJ to JR Hayes dated August 30, 1915 on Farm Journal stationery. Letter is in rhyme. JRH's response to CFJ is penned on the bottom of original letter, and also is in rhyme.Collection
Germantown Historical Society Library CollectionPublication Details
Author
Jenkins, Charles F.Call No.
B La- 1a