A typewritten message on The Licking County Museum, Newark Ohio. It is dated Valentine's Day 1963. Priscilla S. Scheffler, Great Great Granddaughter of Mary Shirley Shove and Dudley Whitney. Affixed to the top of the page are a pair woven hearts, the paper remnant from one of the hearts and finally a third heart cut for weaving. The text is an acocunt of Scheffler who found one of the hearts in the pages of a book owned by Mrs. Mary Shirley Shove-Whitney that she received as a gift from Catharine Brighman. Later when looking through a book previously owned by Brighman in 1828, she found the paper remnant of the blue and white heart and the third heart matching one of the hearts found in the 1830 book.
(Inventory #: 1240086)
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