Mount Vernon et ses associations, historique, biographique et pictural . Je suis persuadé que vous ne nécesserez pas la deuxième édition de celui-ci. Mais il peut vous frapper que, dans le détail, aucune mention n'est faite de toute partie du temps alloué à la lecture. La remarque serait juste, car je n'ai pas regardé dans un livre depuis que je suis arrivé à la maison, et je ne pourrai pas faire ittant que je n'ai pas libéré mes ouvriers, probablement pas avant que les thenights ne grandissent plus, quand peut-être je regarder dans Le Livre De Jour De Métiers. L'allusion de Washingtons dans la lettre de la foiégoing à sa table d'écriture me rappelle son inkstand, qui est conservé à Arling-to

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Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . am persuaded you will not requirea second edition of it. But it may strike you that, in thisdetail, no mention is made of any portion of time allotted forreading. The remark would be just, for I have not lookedinto a book since I came home; nor shall I be able to do ituntil I have discharged my workmen, probably not before thenights grow longer, when possibly I may be looking in Dooms-day Book. Washingtons allusion in the foiegoing letter to his writing-table, reminds me of his inkstand, which is preserved at Arling-ton House. It is composed wholly of silver, except three cut-glass bottles, two of them used for ink, and one (in the centre)for sand. Tlie tray is seven and a half inches in length.It was used by Washington during the last two years of hisadministration, and ever afterward at Mount Vernon. Washington found his mansion and all of the surroundingbuildings much in want of repair when he returned home. I find myself, he said, in the situation nearly of a new 300 MOUNT VERNON. ^ASI11NGT0N S IXKSTAXD. beginner; for although I have not lioiises to build (except one, which I must erect for the accommodation and security of mymilitary, civil, and private papers, which are voluminous andmay be interesting), yet I have scarcely any thing else aboutme that does not require considerable repairs. In a word, Iam alread}^ surrounded by joiners, masons, and painters; andsuch is my anxiety to get out of their hands, that I havescarcely a room to put a friend into or to sit in myself, withoutthe music of hammers or the odoriferous scent of paint. The mansion at Mount Yernon was soon thoroughly repair-ed, and many ornaments and pieces of furniture, not known toit before, were placed in it. Whatever had been used in thepresidential mansion at Philadelphia, and could be appro-priately transferred to Mount Yernon, were reserved, MhenWashington broke up his establishment in the federal capital, and disp

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