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Washburn family; a service sword and scabbard and uniform coat 

 used by Maj. Gen. C. C. Washburn, U. S. Volunteers, during the 

 Civil War; a small silver goblet, part of a silver service presented to 

 him by the members of his staff; two china vases belonging to him 

 while governor of Wisconsin, 1872-74, and a number of other relics, 

 all of which were received as a gift from Mrs. Albert W. Kelsey, of 

 Philadelphia, daughter of Gen. Washburn. 



The extensive and valued collection of Grant memorials received 

 many important additions. Eepresenting Gen. U. S. Grant are two 

 carving sets, each of seven pieces, with silver and ivory handles, 

 one accompanied by two dozen dinner knives similarly mounted, 

 presented to the General, respectively, by the people of San Francisco 

 in 1871 and the workmen of the Lamson and Goodnow Manufactur- 

 ing Company, of Shelburne Falls, Mass., in 1869, which were recorded 

 as a gift from Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, U. S. Army, through 

 Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant. From the latter were received, also as 

 a gift, the follo\ving memorials of her husband: The uniform worn by 

 him when a cadet at the W^est Point MiUtary Academy; a uniform 

 coat worn during the period from 1873 to 1880, when aid on the staff 

 of Gen. Philip Sheridan; his full-dress uniform w^orn in 1911 and 1912 

 while in command of the Eastern Division with headquarters on 

 Governors Island, N. Y.; two United States and tliree headquarters 

 flags flown by him in the Phihppine Islands from 1899 to 1902, in 

 campaigns against FiUpino insurgents; a Colt's revolver and several 

 native daggers and swords captured from the insurgents; a pair of 

 French dueling swords with scabbards presented to Gen. Grant in 

 1899 by the Spanish Secretary of Justice of Porto Rico, Dr. Herminio 

 Diaz, by whom they had been owned and used; and a number of 

 other articles, including an ivory-handled driving whip and a fur 

 overcoat. Mrs. Grant also presented a silver knife, fork and spoon 

 which had been used by her husband when a child, and a* set of 

 Russian enamel spoons given him in 1892 by Senator Leland Stanford. 



A white kid glove of the type worn by those who entertained 

 Lafayette in Boston in 1825, and a United States Army chapeau 

 given to Brevet Maj. Gen. Edward Davis Townsend, U. wS. Army, 

 by Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. Army, were received as a gift 

 from Mrs. E. M. Chapman, of Washington. A piece of masonry 

 from the ancient wall of Servius Tullius in Rome, Italy, presented 

 to the United States Government by the National Association for 

 the History of Italian Unity, Rome, to replace a memorial stone of 

 the same description sent by the National Committee as a tribute to 

 President Lincoln, after his assassination in 1865, but lost in transit, 

 was transferred to and will be preserved in the Museum. A diploma 

 of doctor of medicine, conferred by the University of Edinburgh, 

 Scotland, in 1768, upon Gustavus Richard Brown of the colony of 



