34 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912. 



In addition to the gift already referred to, Mrs. Elizabeth B, 

 Custer, widow of Gen. George A. Custer, lent the following inter- 

 esting objects, namely, the small oval-top wooden table on which 

 Gen. Grant wrote the terms for the surrender of the Confederate 

 States Army of northern Virginia in the McLean house, Appo- 

 mattox, Va., April 9, 18G5, which was presented to Mrs. Custer by 

 Gen. Philip H. Sheridan soon after the surrender, and a letter from 

 Gen. Sheridan to Mrs. Custer when sending her the table; a part 

 of the white linen towel used as a flag of truce by Maj. E. M. Sims, 

 Confederate States Army, at Appomattox on April 9, 1865; a Vir- 

 ginia State flag captured by Gen. Custer in 1861, and a service sword 

 and scabbard used by him during the Civil War. 



Other noteworthy loans were as follows: Three naval uniform 

 coats, a service sword, two water-color sketches of the U. S. gimboat 

 Benton, and a number of miscellaneous objects, which had belonged to 

 Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote, United States Navy, received from 

 Mrs. Kate N. Foote, of Washington ; a large piece of embroidery of 

 the colonial period owned by Mrs, Edward Carrington, of Virginia, 

 prior to the War of the Revolution, and used as a spread on the 

 bed of the Marquis de Lafayette in Eagle Tavern, Richmond, Va., 

 on the occasion of his visit to the United States in 1824, received 

 from Mrs. John W. Daniel, of Washington ; a gold watch and badge 

 formerly the property of Jean M. D. Lander, wife of Brig. Gen. Fred- 

 erick W. Lander, United States Volunteers, the watch having been 

 presented to her in 1838 by citizens of New York in recognition of 

 her extraordinary talent in acting, the badge, in 1867, by members 

 of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, formerly of Gen. Lander's 

 division, in appreciation of her services while in charge of the hos- 

 pital at Port Royal, S. C, and as a token of their regard for their 

 former commander, received from Mr. Frederick C. Lander, of New 

 York; additions to the large collection of memorials of the Bailey- 

 Myers-Mason families, consisting of a filigree gold-and-enamel fan 

 with enamel case, a silver match box, a watch with enamel case, an 

 onyx brooch set with diamonds, and a miniature portrait of Mrs. 

 Sydney Mason, received from Mrs. Julian James, of Washington; 

 a mourning brooch set with pearls and jet, formerly belonging to 

 Henrietta Myers, wife of Peter S. Hoes, nephew of President Mar- 

 tin Van Buren, received from Miss Fannie Jackson, of Yonkers, 

 N. Y. ; a marble bust of William H. Seward, Secretary of State 

 from 1861 to 1869, executed by the Italian sculptor Giovanni Maria 

 Benzoni from sittings given by Mr. Seward while on his trip around 

 the world in 1870 and 1871, received from Miss Sara Carr Upton, 

 of Washington; four scholastic hoods received by the distinguished 

 astronomer Simon Newcomb, when awarded the degree of Doctor of 

 Science by the University of Dublin in 1892, and the degree of 



