This collection consists of an invitation (with envelope) issued by United States President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland to Edith Halsey Lay. The invitation permitted Lay entrance to four separate receptions at the White House in January and February, 1894: to meet the diplomatic corps (January 11), for Congress and the judiciary (January 25), to meet the officers of the armed services (February 3), and for the public (February 6).