1911

On January 22, an auction of rare antiques which took place in New York City marked the final chaper in the unusual saga of George and Miriam Morris and their noted home, the Lindens in Washington, D.C. The auction was attended by over 850 patrons who expended a total of 52.3 million. A Chippendale sofa that cost $1,800 in 1937 sold for 5240,000; achest-on-chest that was purchased for 59,000 in 1955 brought $220,000; a set of 12 Chippendale chairs went for $280,000. A week prior to the sale in New York, the Lindens was sold for a reported $1.3 million.

In 1934 the Morrises acquired an authentic New England colonial house in Danvers, Mass., which had been built in 1745. They had it dismantled and the component parts shipped by rail to Washington, D.C. There, it was fully restored, had the title "The Lindens" bestowed upon it, and became the Morris family home. An eminent authority recently described it as "the finest Georgian frame house in the Western Hemisphere."

George Morris was a prominent Washington attorney who in later years received international acclaim for his activities in behalf of the American Bar Association. He died suddenly of a heart attack in August 1954. In the ensuing years, Miriam Morris continued to seek and acquire those exceptional tokens of Americana that made the Morris collection such an outstanding one. She died in June 1982.

We are indebted to Dana Grossman, class notes and obituaries editor, for transmitting to your secretary a media article which contained most of the foregoing information.

It is with sincere regret that we report a notice from the Alumni Records Office announcing the recent deaths of Mrs. James J. Conroy, Mrs. Howard F. Dunham, and Mrs. Sargent F. Eaton.

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