Catharine Lorillard Wolfe letters to Sarah Griswold Spencer (PSNCA.H.014)

The Preservation Society of Newport County

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Related material:

The Preservation Society holds two scrapbooks of clippings and ephemera related to Wolfe's Vinland estate.

Bibliography:

“Catharine Lorillard Wolfe: Death of a Woman Distinguished for Her Wealth and Charities,” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), 5 April 1887, p. 1.

“American Summary,” Auckland Star (Auckland, New Zealand), 30 April 1887, p. 5.

“Obituary: Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, America’s Richest Unmarried Woman,” The Indianapolis Journal, 5 April 1887, p. 3.

Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., “The Late Lorillard Spencer,” New York Herald Cable Service, printed in San Francisco Examiner, 3 February 3 1888, p. 2.

“Mrs. Lorillard Spencer Dead,” Hartford Courant, 4 March 1905, p. 1.