ADDRESS!-'.' 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1924 



ih ^T«^a. Funeral at Mt. Auburn Chapel. 

 l> Saturday, Sept. 6. at 830 P.M. 



<\ AN EXPERT IN TEXTILES 



Mrs. Sarah Gore Flint Townsend, wife 



: of Dr. Charles Wendell Townsend of Bos- 

 ton and Ipswich, died yesterday at a sanl- 



1 turlum in Framlngham after a hrief illneaa. 



i She had been an active master-craftsman 

 nu mber of the Boston Society of Arts and 



1 Crafts since 1901. For many years she 

 did invaluable service as a member of Its 

 committee on exhibitions. She was elected 



i a member of the. council of the society for 

 three years beginning in 1020 and in 1923 



* was elected a vice president, which posl- 



r tion she held at the time of her death. 

 As an expert on laces and textiles, she was 



5 tt very helpful member of the Guild of 

 Thread and Needle-Workers of the society. 



1 Since 1905 Mrs. Townsend had been a 



i valued member of the staff of the Boston 

 Museum of Fine Arts: first, as assistant in 



1 chargo of its important textile collection 

 and of late years as adviser to that de- 

 pnrtmeent. The textile collection was be- 



\ gun at the Museum in Its earliest days, es- 

 pecially with a view to the aid It might 



'* bring to the textile industry of New Eng- 



r land. In the performance of her -duties 

 Mrs. Townsend made several trips abroad 



?! and came in contact with many persons, 

 collectors and officials, connected with al- 



A ljed branches of the art in Europe. 



it Mrs. Townsend was the daughter of 

 Austin Whitwell Flint and Lucy (Parker) 



IT Flint of Brookline. She Is survived by 



E i her mother, a brother, William Parker 

 Flint of Tom's River, N. J., and three 



A nieces and a nephew, children of Dr. Town- 

 send by ills first wife, who was Miss Ger- 1 



" trudo Flint. They are Miss GcrtrudeTown- 



it send, Mrs. Hale Sutherland, Mrs. Wendell 

 Taber and Charles Townsend, all of Boa- 



