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Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.
The Evening Times January 7, 1901 Davis Page-2
CUSHMAN K. DAVIS' WORKS.
His Widow Now Engaged in Compiling and Editing Them.
Mrs. Cushman K. DAVIS has returned to her Washington residence, 1719 H Street, which she will make her permanent home. Mrs. DAVIS is already busily engaged in compiling her distinguished husband's works on law, politics, diplomacy, and literature which he embodied in speeches and lectures in the course of his public career. The manuscripts have been left in the most perfect order by their author, and the task of arranging them into the six volumes which it is estimated will be necessary to properly compile them, will be neither a very long nor difficult task.
M. La GRANDE, the American attorney for the French Embassy, will assist Mrs. DAVIS in editing the works and she will also have the help of Bishop HURST, who was an old and valued friend of the late Senator DAVIS.
When completed, Mrs. Davis will have had the judgment of leading diplomats and statesmen who have cordially offered their services in the matter. M. La GRANDE was born in France, but has lived in this county nearly all his life. He is a graduate of Georgetown University.
In reference to the rumor that she intended making the French capital her future home, Mrs. DAVIS said this morning: "Nothing is further from my thoughts than going to live in Paris. I shall live in Washington in the home on H street, where I had expected to spend such a pleasant winter with my husband, and in the preparations and alterations of which for this purpose he took so keen an interest prior to his illness.
"I would like to correct several statements which have been published in regard to my husband's will. The statement that it was made several weeks before his death is entirely erroneous. It was made in 1885, and left me all of his personal effects, including his library, which is a very valuable one. It is not true that he desired to have this library sold. It was willed to me, and will not be sold."