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' Next is the dress worn by Mrs. Richard 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 Rush 
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 Rear Admiral D. D. Porter, 1839; 
a dress of Miss Mary Catharine Bruyn, 1835-1840; the dress worn by 
Miss Helen Hovey 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 Dewey, 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 VIII. 
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, 1788, 
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- 
