After her marriage, she devoted less time to scientific work but continued to collect specimens in several locations including Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, the Catskills, New York and Litchfield, Connecticut.
[1] Her extensive illustrations are particularly significant as fungal specimens tend to deteriorate soon after collection and would often change their colour and form.
[8] Violetta Susan White married John Ross Delafield (1874–1964) on 14 June 1904 in Manhattan at Church of the Heavenly Rest and went on to have three children.
[9] John Ross Delafield was born in Fieldson, Bronx, to parents from wealthy, prominent Hudson Valley families.
The Delafield's were related to the Livingston family, who established the country estate known as Montgomery Place, which became the couple's main residence after 1921.
A state of the art working greenhouse was added to the formal gardens in 1929, with underfloor heating to protect the plants from the cold.