[Minutes of the Executive Committee of the New-York Historical Society, 1880-1884], page 98, minutes of April 19, 1881 (continued)

Includes report on the library's acquisition by purchase of volumes and pamphlets at the sale of Part III of the George Brinley library; decline of an offer to purchase from James R. Booth a George Washington sword; and consideration of a request from a woman, Miss C.L. Ransom, to make a copy of the portrait of General Dix, painted by Huntington, for the U.S. Treasury Department.