- Call number
- MssCol 23192
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
Mary Jones and Henry Lyman Dyer wedding scrapbook, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Mary Jones was the daughter of George Jones, first publisher of the New York Times. The scrapbook for her 1872 marriage to Henry Lyman Dyer contains wedding invitations, clippings, a list of invited guests, a list of gifts, a letter from William Evelyn, and notes of regret from Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Congressman Henry L. Dawes, and Cabinet Secretaries George S. Boutwell and Columbus Delano. Also enclosed in the scrapbook is a certificate for Mary Jones' confirmation at the Church of Holy Communion in 1865, a ticket to a dinner given by the Commission Merchants of New York in 1870, and miscellaneous clippings from the 1880s.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books and Paper, 2015.
Processing information
Compiled by Kit Fluker, 2015.
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Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328