This letter was written to Albert S. Parsons, President of the Lexington Field & Garden Club by George O. Smith, an active and longstanding club member. Smith was also on the board of the Lexington Registrars of Voters, and had received a stipend for his service from the Town Treasurer. In this letter, he expresses his desire to give part of the money accumulated from his stipend to the club for the beautification and improvement of the town’s public spaces, and enclosed a $100 check for that purpose. Although this letter was written in 1892, it wasn’t until 1903 that the George O. Smith Scholarship Fund was established for the purpose of “setting out and keeping in order shade and ornamental trees and shrubs in the streets and highways in said town, or the beautifying of unsightly places in the highways.” Smith also left a legacy of $2,500 to the Field & Garden Club on his death.
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