visiting cards

Calling card of John R. Strong, Cambridge with a June 25, 1903 note regarding the volumes.

Manuscript partial index to the letters; calling card of John R. Strong, Cambridge with a June 25, 1903 note regarding the volumes affixed to page .

November 14, 1827 note addressed to "my dear brother Sol." regarding the origins of the progenitors of the Long Island Townsends, the three brothers John, Henry, and Richard who first settled in Massachusetts before moving first to New Amsterdam and later to Long Island; it includes the false claim that their father was Thomas Townsend and that they settled Lynn, Massachusetts, naming it after King's Lynn in Norfolk, England, seat of the Townsends; with a calling card of Mr. I.A. Townsend with Townsend family arms affixed to page.

Addressed from Frederic De Peyster to George Burgess on verso.

With pencil notes on recto and verso.

Printed card with inscription.

Card with manuscript signature and embossed Seventh Regiment insignia.

With numerical inscription.