Mad jm Regent: 
 
 I hasten to inform von of an important piece of news 
 relating to improvements to be nude in the vicinity of our lot 
 purchased for Memorial Continental Hall. The Washington 
 papers of this date announce that the Columbian University 
 has just purchased the old Van Ness Estate which includes 
 the square just south of our lot and facing Seventeenth Street. 
 The announcement is made that "no money will be spared 
 by the University authorities to gather about its new home 
 one of the finest colleges in the United States. Plans have 
 been submitted for a large University Building to front on 
 Seventeenth Street, which will cost $350,000, and three additional 
 buildings to front respectively on Eighteenth Street, C Street, 
 and on B Street." As is generally known to the members of 
 our Society the Corcoran Gallery is only one block north of our 
 building site. The construction of the main University building 
 011 the block immediately south of our lot will add greatly 
 to the value of our property and makes this locality a specially 
 desirable one for our purpose. I trust that the members of 
 the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
 tion will be encouraged to make renewed efforts to secure the 
 necessary funds for erecting our Memorial Continental Hall 
 at an early date. 
 
 Very sincerely 
 
 MARTHA L. STERNBERG 
 
 Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means 
 
 2144. California Avenue N. W. 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 June 20th, 1 90s 
 
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