Letterpress Book (Richards/Whitney) , 1897 August 6 - 1899 September

Among those listed in the alphabetical name index at the front of the volume are Father Francis Barnum, Benziger Brothers, Barber and Rose, Sister Borromeo, Barrington Brothers, Samuel L. Busey, Father William Cowardin, Don Joaquim Barnado Cabo, John Vinton Dahlgren, Elizabeth Dahlgren, James Duffy and Company, James Cardinal Gibbons, Mrs. L. Beauchamp Hughes, George Kober, Mullin and Sons, G.L. Magruder, Sidney E. Mudd, Judge Pacificus Ord, Paul Pelz, School and Home Decor Company, and Governor of Virginia J. Hoge Tyler.

Included are letters to: the Potomac Electric Power Company dated August 18, 1897 accepting a bid to install 98 lights in “the new library building”; Sister Borromeo dated February 21, 1898 relating to the Georgetown University Hospital, Senor Don Joaquin Barnardo Cabo, Minister from Costa Rico dated December 27, 1897, relating to Cecilio Quezada, a student expected from Costa Rico who had not arrived on campus; Judge Pacificus Ord Dated October 7, 1897 suggesting that a memorial to the Judge’s father be incorporated into the new Georgetown University Hospital; and Paul Pelz dated October 19, 1897 seeking an estimate for “the lighting of the Hall” [Gaston Hall?] and “the decoration of the walls.”