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While the identity of the artist is not confirmed, Jessa Krick found the following reference which may be of interest. In a volume entitled Letters to My Pupils with Narrative and Biographical Sketches, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney includes a sketch of her pupil, Mary Jane Chester: "Her marriage, in 1834, to the Rev. Sylvester Hovey, opened a new class of duties, in which without forfeiting her interest for earlier friends she was equally a model. During a winter's residence in the island of St. Croix, for the benefit of his health, she not only exterted all her winning influences for the preservation of his cheerfulness, but identified so much with his studies as to reap that improvement which her mind always
pursued and prized. Large and scientific collections of Botany, and Conchology attested how zealous had been their researches in Natural History. Discovering that the lustrous seed of the wild Tamarind, was capabale of being wrought into ornamenal bags, she constructed a variety of exquisite patterns, and then taught the art to a woman who depended on her own exertions for support, and who found it no inconsiderable source of profit. In the elegant and useful works of female ingenuity she was an adept. Systematic industry enabled her to complete many tasteful gifts for her friends, as well as durable fabrics for the poor."
Card found in package 8/64
"Circa 1840 Cost $18.00"Note Type
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Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 13ENote Type
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