s death in 1960, his only child, armstead peter iii was the owner. it was britannia's first great grandson. she was always eager for news of him or when he visited tudor place as a young boy. he in turn was captivated by his great-grandmother, the stories she could tell and the family's long ownership of tudor place. here they are a few months before her death in 1910. this is one of my favorite images, you see britannia, a woman who met lafayette as a young girl with her great grandson armstead peter iii, the last owner of tudor place and lived there until 1983. in addition to preserving the house collection and 5 1/2 acre property, he further documented the family's historic ties to the house and garden with a publication of his book, "tudor place" in 1969. and as a further measure to insure the preservation of tudor place, he had placed the entire five-and-a-half acre property in a conservation easement with the national park service in 1966. this action insured that the property would never again be reduced in size and then when -- as it had been

upon hearing the news of the birthday of armstead peter jr.'s son, iii seen here with john in 1898, luckett asked britannia to pass along the message to say he was proud that armstead has a son and i live long enough to drag around like i did armstead jr. despite numerous offers to secure housing for luckett and his family in closer proximity to tudor place, he declined stating that his wife preferred where they lived on capitol hill. britannia is quoted in the obituary if i was asked to name a fault in john, i could not do so. it's a pity there are not more like him. in the late winter of 1911 when the contents of tudor place were inventoried after her death, the list of objects included a photograph of john, the only photograph in that room who was not a member of the family. for all of the wealth of information that britannia provides to her grand children in these reminiscences, she is relatively quiet about the transitional period in 1862, 1863 when enslaved labor was no longer used attitudor place and she began employing paid servants. in the distr