Else Anna Grimm, a year-round resident of Montauk since 1991, died on March 29 at home after a two-month illness. She was 92.

Beverley Mountain Galban, an amateur artist who was inspired by the beauty of the East End, died on April 9 at home in Summit, N.J., after a long illness. A resident of Sagaponack for several months each year, she was 85.

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, sent this 1948 letter to Abe Katz, an East Hampton dairy farmer, on the subject of an animal research laboratory planned for Montauk.

Ann Burack-Weiss of Montauk and New York City, an author and gerontologist, died of complications of metastatic breast cancer at home in Manhattan on April 3. She was 86.