William W. Corcoran died February 24, 1888. By his will, after numerous bequests and legacies to friends and relatives, he gives the sum of seventeen thousand dollars to charitable institutions in the City of Washington, D.C., and adds, “All these sums to be held and invested by the institutions to which they are severally given, and a sufficient part of the income therefrom used to furnish the inmates with the usual Christmas and strawberry festivals and feasts, commenced by my daughter about forty years ago, and continued by me to the present time.” A cane given to the testator by the widow of General Robert E. Lee, he gives to his eldest grandson, William Corcoran Eustis, as well as his diamond shirt studs and his library. To his grandson, George Peabody Eustis, he gives his Palmetto cane, presented to him by the citizens of South Carolina in 1874. The celebrated Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, is remembered in the following language: “In addition to the gifts heretofore made by me to ‘The Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’ in the City of Washington, and now being enjoyed by said Gallery, and which amount to about the sum of $1,500,000, I give and bequeath to ‘The Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art,’ in the District of Columbia, the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars to be applied by said Trustees, for the purposes of said Gallery, according to a request which I shall make in writing to said Trustees.” To the Trustees of the Louise Home of the City of Washington, D.C., he gives the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which he states is in addition to the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, already given to said institution. To his grandson, William Corcoran Eustis, he gives “the old brick house on Bridge Street in Georgetown, D.C., built in the year 1791 by my father, and in which I was born,” with the request that the same be not sold, but that the devisee pass it by will to his eldest son. The rest of his estate he directs shall, from time to time, be divided between his grandchildren. The will concludes with the following items: “I give and bequeath to my barber George Gray, the sum of One Hundred Dollars.” “I hereby direct that all my horsehaired furniture shall be equally divided between my said grandchildren.” WILL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS Jefferson Davis died at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 6, 1889. His will is as follows: “I, Jefferson Davis, of the County of Harrison and State of Mississippi, being of sound and disposing mind, but of such advanced age, as to suggest a near approach of death, do make this my last Will and Testament, written with my own hand and signed in the presence of three competent witnesses.