mothers, Submit Clarke Dewart Staube and Rosamond Randall Beirne, who was Vice Regent for Maryland, 1948-1969 and Regent, 1958-1968. SAUCER decorated with black transfer printed view of after William Birch; English, Staffordshire, circa 1850. Gift of Mrs. Nicholas B. Merryman, Wilmington, Delaware, through the Vice Regent for Delaware. Mansion Library CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, Fourth Earl. Letters . . . to His Son. London, Printed: New York, Re-printed by J. Rivington and H. Gaine, 1775. Four volumes; contemporary sheep binding; George 's bookplate in all volumes and his signature on the half-title page of all but volume I. The set, which is listed in the inventory of General Washington's library made by the executors of his estate, was among a group of original Washington books sold by the family in 1876. Purchase. See pages 23-26. Manuscripts PORTION OF A LARGE FOLIO SURVEY of Ferry farm at Mount Vernon with a ten year crop rotation table for the years 1787 through 1796, entirely in the hand of George Washing- ton. A.D., lp. In 1793, Washington combined Ferry with another tract to create Union Farm, the last of the five Mount Vernon farms to be formed. Crop rotation was an agricultural technique not widely practiced in eighteenth century . This document illustrates Washington's concern with long range planning and his tireless experimentation to improve the productivity of his farms. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chesley T. Bixby of Haverhill, Massachusetts. LEDGER ACCOUNT OF KITCHEN STAPLES purchased for the Presidential household in Philadelphia for March 3-16, 1794, kept by President Washington himself. A.D., 2p. Among the items purchased during the two week period were one hundred eighty-one loaves of bread, sixty-two dozen eggs and thirty bottles of madeira. The quantities suggest that this ledger

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