To Bertha from Cora Hendricks – Approx. date
[Note: This is the last letter from Cora Hendricks. She would die on June 3, 1942. She was buried in West Point, New York with her husband.]
My dear children,
I have asked each of you to tell me what you would most like of the things in the house.
You have each named two or three times, and not the same ones in any case, so I am making some lists beginning each with the first choice made and adding what I would particularly like each to have, leaving most things unmentioned. I hope before I die, I may have you all together and let you choose more among the smaller things, if not, I am sure you can do so later.
Unless it should happen that one of you can keep the house, it will be necessary to sell some of the large pieces of furniture, the large pictures, the largest rug, etcetera.
If the jade cannot be sold for a reasonable price, enough to be a useful sum for each of you, I think it might be as well to divide it. I know you all value it. In some way, I think, you can share the smaller rugs, as one can lest use one, and another a different one.
Senn
• Painting by Tenier.
• The two halberds.
• Silver water pitcher.
• Silver cake dish.
• Morris chair.
• Roll top desk and oral table, if he cares to move them.
Sally
• Rosewood bookcase.
• Pie crust table.
• Contents of her bedroom.
• Silver coffee set.
• Silver candle sticks.
• Gold plated spoons and dishes.
• Old fashioned cut glass.
Bertha
• The Spanish console table.
• The two ebony chairs and the chair she uses on her model stand.
• The silver tea set.
• Mexican tea spoons.
• Spanish screen.
• Charles II chair.
• Bookcase or China closet.
• Her bedroom furniture.
