100/104 Three letters in the Emmet correspondence refer to the Butler portraiture. On January 31, 1887, Mrs.Sarah B.Wister, of Philadelphia, wrote to Dr.Emmet: "I enclose photograph copies of two miniatures of Maj. Mr.Louis Butler [a bachelor then over seventy years old living in Paris, France] gave me not long ago: I did not know of their existence until 1882, & never heard of any likeness of my great-grandfather, except an oil-portrait wh. was last seen more than thirty years ago in a lumber room in his former house at the n. |