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...
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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.
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