Museum trustees

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents and correspondence relating to legal services performed by David Palmer Close for Marjorie Merriweather Post and her daughter Eleanor Close Barzin, and to a lesser extent for Adelaide Brevoort Close. Close's legal work for Marjorie Merriweather Post included wills, codicils, trusts, bequests, financial transactions and her marriages to Joseph Davies ansd Herbert May. He also served as the purchasing agent for Post when she acquired Arbremont (later...