Papers, 1928-1964.

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Papers, 1928-1964.

Papers include her personal correspondence with family, friends, and employees, 1928-1960; letters soliciting her assistance in personal, business, charity, and political concerns, greeting cards, social notes, and other miscellaneous correspondence, 1940-1960; correspondence and bills relating to the residence she maintained at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, 1939-1959; correspondence, legal papers, financial documents, and other papers, 1935-1960, pertaining to taxes, property, estate matters, insurance, and investments, both in France and the United States; accounts, ledgers, bills, menus, memoranda books, correspondence, and other records, 1931-1962, pertaining to the management of Lyndhurst and its employees; and financial, estate, and household papers from the interregnum of her estate.

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Lyndhurst (Tarrytown, N.Y.)

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Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house in Tarrytown, New York. The home was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis, and owned in succession by New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould....

Shepard, Helen Gould, 1870-1938.

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Eldest daughter of Jay Gould, Helen inherited Lyndhurst at his death. Some of her philanthropic works were carried out at Lyndhurst. She was married to Finley J. Shepard. From the description of Papers, 1892-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540396 ...

Talleyrand-Périgord, Anna Gould, duchesse de, 1878-1961.

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Anna Gould, duchesse de Talleyrand-Périgord, returned to the United States in 1939 after her sister Helen's death, and maintained Lyndhurst until her own death in 1961, when the estate passed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. From the description of Papers, 1928-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540405 ...

Plaza Hotel (New York, N.Y.)

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