[Minutes of the Executive Committee of the New-York Historical Society, 1927-1931, page 104], minutes of February 19, 1929 (continued)

Includes approval of request from Harry F. Byrd, governor of Virginia, on behalf of the Virginia Historical Society, for a loan for exhibition of the portraits of Mrs. James Madison (Dolley Madison) and Edgar Allan Poe; acquisition by donation from the Grant Monument Association via William Rhinelander Stewart of a picture of the proposed Grant's Tomb and a handbook concerning the memorial's history; and decline of an offer to purchase the Central Park West property.