“I stumbled across your page on JRD’s coat of arms and thought I would write you with a probable explanation for the mushrooms at the bottom right of the bookplate. JRD’s wife, Violetta S. White Delafield, was an accomplished mycologist who published some scholarly monographs on different mushroom families prior to her marriage to JRD. Her interest in fungi continued throughout her life, and HHV has in its collection many beautiful annotated watercolors she made over the years whenever she had the time to go looking for mushrooms on summer holidays.”