Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . City, January the third, 1825. My dear Custis : My father being able to dispose of him-self on Wednesday, will do himself the pleasure of going thatday to dine at Arlington. It is so long since I wished for thatsatisfaction myself, that I most sincerely rejoice at the antici-pation of it. You know, my friend, how happy I was whenwe met at Baltimore. Since that day I felt every day moreand more how much our two hearts were calculated to under-stand each other. Be pleased, my dear Custis, to present myrespectful homage t
Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . City, January the third, 1825. My dear Custis : My father being able to dispose of him-self on Wednesday, will do himself the pleasure of going thatday to dine at Arlington. It is so long since I wished for thatsatisfaction myself, that I most sincerely rejoice at the antici-pation of it. You know, my friend, how happy I was whenwe met at Baltimore. Since that day I felt every day moreand more how much our two hearts were calculated to under-stand each other. Be pleased, my dear Custis, to present myrespectful homage to the ladies, and receive for yourself theexpression of my most affectionate and brotherly sentiments. Tlie profiles of General and Mrs. Washington, by Sharpless,have been pronounced by members of the Washington familywho remembered the originals, as the best likenesses extant, 296 MOUNT VERNON both in form and color. Sharpless made many copies from also did Mrs. Sharpless, who painted miniatures in watercolors most exquisitely. One of these is in the possession of. rilAYDN PROFILE OF WASHINGTON. Mrs. Eliza M. Evans, a daughter of General Anthony WaltonWhite, of New Jersey. It is somewhat smaller than the usualsize of miniatures, and on the back is written, by the hand ofthe fair artist: General Washington, Philadelphia, 1796. These four originals, by Sharpless, are preserved at Arling-ton House. Those of Mrs. Washington, and Lafayette andCustis, when lads, have never been engraved before. Theyhung upon the walls at Mount Vernon from the time whenWashington retired from the presidency until the death ofMrs. Washington, in 1802, when they passed into the posses-sion of her grandson, G. W. P. Custis. When fairly seated again in private life at Mount Vernon, AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 297 Washington appeared to revel in the hixurj of quiet. He wasnever idle, never indifferent to tlie progress of current events,but lie loved the peacefulness of nature away from the ha
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