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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., A remembrance. (search)
ed is an exquisite little painting only 11/16 × 1 5/16 inches in size, fastened to the top of a 2 1/2 × 3 3/4 inch page of fine linen paper by four stitches in its corners, the ends of the thread tasselled. Beneath it is the following legend, written in a very fine but distinct hand:— the Autumn oak trees, designed and painted by Abigail Brown Tompkins, 1921. To the Town of Medford, Mass., in memory of George Luther Stearns, your renowned townsman who was born at Medford, January 8, 1809. Presented with the good wishes of Miss Abigail Brown Tompkins and Miss Emma Louise Tompkins, descendants of founders of the City of Newark, New Jersey, in 1666. south Orange, New Jersey, December 19, 1921. Our versatile and estimable city clerk being in some doubt as to its best disposition, consulted with the curator of the Historical Society, and after acknowledging its receipt with thanks, sent the same, with his letter of explanation above quoted, to the Society. In the meant