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Next is the dress worn by Mrs. Kichard Rush when presented at 

 the Court of George III in 1817. It was her husband, then minister 

 to Great Britain, who went to London in 1836 as special commis- 

 sioner on behalf of the bequest of Smithson, which he brought back 

 with him in gold sovereigns, and later he became a regent of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. There is also another costume of the Eush 

 family worn in 1817 and a mantilla of 1840. Among other gowns 

 belonging to the last and the beginning of the present century are 

 the wedding dress of the wife of Eear Admiral D. D. Porter, 1839 ; 

 a dress of Miss Mary Catharine Bruj^n, 1835-1840; the dress worn by 

 Miss Helen HoA'ey at the ball given in Boston in 1860 to the Prince 

 of Wales, with whom she danced; five beautiful gowns belonging 

 to three generations of the Bailey-Myers-Mason family; a superb 

 gown, a replica of one belonging to the Empress Josephine, worn by 

 Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter at the Indian Durbar of 1903; two dresses of 

 Mrs. Levi P. Morton and one of Mrs. John Hay; the dress worn by 

 Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks, wife of the Vice President, at the 

 inaugural ball on March 4, 1905; a coat and gown of cloth of gold 

 which had belonged to Mrs. John R. McLean; two gowns of Mrs. 

 George Dewe}^, one her wedding dress; a dress of Mrs. Henry Y. 

 Satterlee, widow of Bishop Satterlee; and two costumes of the 

 famous actress Charlotte Cushman, worn by her in her impersona- 

 tion of Cardinal Wolsey and Catharine in Henry VIIL 



In four of the single lay figure cases is displayed the attire of as 

 many distinguished American men. One contains the uniform worn 

 by Gen. Washington when, at Annapolis, Md., on December 23, 1783, 

 he surrendered his commission as commander in chief of the Con- 

 tinental Army, and also one of his dress suits. In another is the 

 stately coat worn by Gen. Thomas Pinckney, of South Carolina, 

 when minister to the Court of St. James. In the third is the court 

 dress of James Monroe worn during his second mission to France in 

 1803, together with a large number of other Monroe relics, including 

 badges and ribbons of the French Revolution, two waistcoats, shoe 

 and belt buckles, a medal, a spur, rapier, umbrella, razors and strop, 

 and several letters, one of which announces his marriage. In the 

 last is the uniform coat worn by Gen. Andrew Jackson at the battle 

 of New Orleans, January 8, 1815, and his pistols and case. 



Charming and dainty in their materials, their needlework, and their 

 decoration are many baby dresses of the styles of 1800, 1817, 1825, 

 1849, 1852, and 1859, displayed in a special case, among them being 

 some rather elaborate christening robes and caps, as well as other 

 articles of infant apparel. 



Filling three of the alcove cases is a valuable collection of Cash- 

 mere and embroidered China silk or India shawls, including a num- 



