ARLINGTON HOUSE Historic Structures Report Supplementary Material

MANUSCRIPTS

Calvert, Elizabeth Gibbon Randolph. "Childhood Days at Arlington Mixed with After Memories." Written in 1875, describing conditions at Arlington House about 1846. Park Library Manuscript Collection, Cat. No. 2514.

Custis Manuscripts. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Custis Manuscripts. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Custis Manuscripts. New York Public Library, New York, New York.

Custis Manuscripts. Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

DeButts-Ely Manuscripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Freeman, Douglas S. Manuscripts, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

Heintzelman, Samuel Peter, Manuscripts. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Lee Family Papers. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Lee Manuscripts. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Lee Manuscripts. Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

Leisenring, Luther Morris. "Restoration of Arlington Mansion", ca. May 1931. The Architect in charge of restoring Arlington House and Outbuildings, 1928-31, Report to the Quartermaster General. (Copy in park research files).

Leisenring, L.M. Report of interview with Mrs. Annie Baker and Mrs. Ada Thompson, former slaves and the daughters of Thornton and Salina Gray, while touring Arlington House, dated March 3, 1930. (Copy in park research files).

Records of the Commission of Fine Arts, Record Group 66. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Records of the National Park Service, Record Group 79. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Rhodes, David H. "Historic Memories of Arlington National Cemetery, 1873 to 1930." (Copy in park research files).

______. "Notes Pertaining to the Old Flower Garden South of Arlington Mansion, by Mr. D. H. Rhodes, Landscape Gardener of Arlington, where he has been employed since 1871," June 19, 1930. Written for Quartermaster Supply Officer, Washington Depot.

Stabler—Leadbeator Apothecary Shop Manuscripts. Alexandria, Virginia.

Index to Office of the Quartermaster General, 1890-1914, Document Files. Office of the Quartermaster General, 1800-1914, Document Files.

Records of the Quartermaster General for the period 1915 to 1935 are located at the Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland. Record Group 92 contains records relating to Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, during this period as follows: 1915-1921—Only central files with no index exist. Only one box of data relating to Arlington National Cemetery was located for this period; 1922-1935—Office of the Quartermaster General Correspondence Geographic File, 1922-1935, has 16 boxes of documents relating to Arlington National Cemetery. These include boxes Nos. 60 to 75. Boxes Nos. 66, 67, 68, and 69 contain documents relating to the restoration and furnishing of Arlington House in 1928-31.

Records of the Commission of Fine Arts concerning Arlington House are in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. The Master Data Files, 1900-1933, for Arlington House, in the park research library contain three looseleaf notebooks for 1900-28, 1929, and 1930-33, which have photostatic copies of correspondence and documents in the National Archives Records of the Commission of Fine Arts. These volumes also contain original and duplicate documents relating to the Quartermaster Corps restoration of Arlington House during 1928-33. These documents probably came from the files of the Quartermaster Corps Supply Officer, Washington Depot, D.C., who administered Arlington House and the National Cemetery during restoration of the mansion. The collection appears to contain some original documents that are not in the National Archives 1922-35 collection of Quartermaster General Geographical Files for Arlington National Cemetery. The National Park Service probably acquired the quartermaster correspondence about 1953 when historian Nelligan was conducting research on the mansion.

The National Park Service files for Arlington House during the years 1933 to 1979 in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and in the Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland, are centralized under the heading of National Capital Parks and are not collected in the separate file for Arlington House. Thus, it was found to be virtually impossible to find and examine the necessary documents. All National Park Service documents cited in this two-volume study came from the following repositories:

1. Arlington House Park Master Data File of loose-leaf notebooks for the years 1933 to 1967 (on file in the park research library).

2. Arlington House Subject File, in drawer labeled "Restoration and Repair File," in Arlington House park office.

3. Cultural Resources Repository, Cultural Resources Management (Office of Chief Historian), National Park Service, Washington, D.C., Arlington House File, 1933-81.

CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS

Congressional Serials Nos. 1224, 1230, 1245, 1249, 1285, 1324, 1367, 1412, 1446, 1503, 1558.

Public Resolution — No. 74 — 68th Congress (H. J. Res. 264).

Restoration of the Lee Mansion, Hearing before the Joint Committee on the Library, Congress of the United States, 68th Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. J. Res. 264, Authorizing the Resolution of the Lee Mansion in the Arlington National Cemetery, Va., May 28, 1924 (Washington, 1925), p. 5.

PERIODICALS

"An Old Mansion Becomes a New Shrine." American Motorist, October, 1931.

Berard, Augusta Blanch. "Arlington and Mount Vernon, April 18, 1856," with Introduction and Notes by Clayton Torrence. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, LVII (April 1949), 140-75.

Chase, Enoch A. "George Washington's Heirlooms at Arlington." Current History, (March, 1929), 975.

______. "The Arlington Case," Virginia Law Review XV (January, 1929), 207-33.

Leadbeater, Eleanor, "The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop, Alexandria, Va., 1792-1933," American Pharmaceutical Association Journal, XXIII, (November 1934).

Leisenring, Luther M. "An Account of the Restoration of Arlington House." Federal Architect, II (July 1933).

Lossing, Benson J. "Arlington House, The Seat of G.W.P. Custis, Esq." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, VII (September 1953).

Rodier, Gilbert L. "Arlington House," Architectural Forum, XL (March 1924).

Winthrop, Theodore, "Washington as a Camp." Atlantic Monthly, VIII (July, 1861), 117.

BOOKS

Appleton's Handbook of American Travel — Southern Tour. New York, 1872.

Barrett, George T. Letters from Canada and the United States. London, 1965.

Carter, Robert G. Four Brothers in Blue. Washington, 1913.

Castleman, Alfred L. The Army of the Potomac: Behind the Scenes. Milwaukee, 1863.

Custis, G. W. P. Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington by His Adopted Son, with a memoir of the author by his daughter and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Lossing. New York, Derby & Jackson, 1860.

Decker, Karl, and McSween, Angus. Historic Arlington. Washington, 1892.

Dictionary of American Biography. Vol VIII.

Dunlap, William. History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. New York, 1834.

Elliot, Jonathan. Historical Sketches of the Ten Mile Square. Washington, 1830.

Elliot, William. Washington Guide. Washington, 1826.

Hamlin, Talbot. Greek Revival Architecture in America. (New York, 1944).

Holloway (Langford), Laura C. The Ladies of the White House, or, in the Home of the Presidents. 2 vols., New York, 1886.

Jennings, Edmund. Lee of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1895.

Kimball, Fiske. Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and of the Early Republic. New York, 1922.

Lee, Edmund Jennings. Lee of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1895.

Levasseur, A. Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1829.

Lossing, Benson J. The Pictorial History of the Civil War. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1866.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Washington, 1880-1919, Ser. I, Vol. 2.

Osborne John Ball. The Story of Arlington. Washington, 1899.

Prussing, Eugene E. The Estate of George Washington, Deceased. Boston, 1929.

Sherman, William Tecumsah. Memoirs. 2 vols. New York, 1885.

Stetson, Charles. The Four Mile Run Land Grants. Washington, 1935.

Trollope, Frances M. Domestic Manners of the Americans. New York, 1904.

Vigne, Godfrey T. Six Months in America. London, 1832.

Weigley, Russell, F. Quartermaster General of the Union Army, A Biography of M.C. Meigs. New York, 1959.

Williams, Kenneth P. Lincoln Finds a General. 2 vols. New York, 1949.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STUDIES

Arbogast, David. "Arlington House Paint Study, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Arlington, Virginia." Typescript, February, 1981.

Arnest, Harry Lee, III, and Sligh John. "Historic Structures Report—Architectural Data Section, The Arlington House, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia," (Handwritten draft, 2 vols., September 1981).

Matero, Frank G. "Report on the Investigation of the Exterior Paints, Conditions and Treatments, Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia," July 1979.

McCormick, Charles H. "Custis-Lee Mansion, Historical Data for Grounds." Division of History, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, June 1, 1968.

Mullins, Agnes Downey. Arlington House Furnishing Plan, July 1979.

Nelligan, Murray H. Custis-Lee Mansion, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, Virginia, National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 6. Washington, D.C. 1950: revised 1962).

______. "Old Arlington, The Story of the Lee Mansion National Memorial," typescript, National Capital Parks, ca. 1953.

Pousson, John F. "Archeological Excavations at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, Arlington County, Virginia," (Typescript, National Capital Team, Denver Service Center, August 1981).

Powell, B. Bruce; Skillman, Leroy; and Mullins, Agnes. "Historic Grounds Report, Part II, the Custis-Lee Mansion Flower Garden," Typescript, March 1964.

Snell, Charles W. "A Collection of Materials in Three Parts for a Historical Data Section for The Arlington House, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia." Typescript, National Capital Team, Denver Service Center, February 1979).

Swartz, Paul C., and Roberts, John G. "Historic Structure Report, North Servant's Quarters, Custis-Lee Mansion, Virginia," Typescript, National Capital Parks, August, 1960, and Part II, 1961.