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The seeds, which are on the case in my study, ought, with 

 out loss of time, to be sown and planted in my botanical gar 

 den, and proper memoranda kept of the times and places. 



You will use your best endeavours to obtain the means for 

 support of G. and L. Washington, who, I expect, will board, 

 till something further can be decided on, with Dr. Craik; 

 who must be requested to see that they are decently and 

 properly provided with clothes from Mr. Porter s store. 

 He will give them a credit on my becoming answerable to 

 him for the payment. And, as I know of no resources, that 

 H. has for supplies but from me, Fanny will, from time to 

 time, as occasion may require, have such things got for her, 

 on my account, as she shall judge necessary. Mrs. Wash 

 ington will, I expect, leave her tolerably well provided with 

 common articles for the present. 



My memorandum books, which will be left in my study, 

 will inform you of the times and places, when, and where, 

 different kinds of wheat, grass-seeds, &c., were sown. Let 

 particular attention be paid to the quality and quantity of 

 each sort, that a proper judgment of them may be formed. 

 To do this, great care must be taken to prevent mixture 

 of the several sorts, as they are so contiguous to each other. 



The general superintendence of my affairs is all I require 

 of you ; for it is neither my desire nor wish, that you should 

 become a drudge to it, or that you should refrain from any 

 amusements or visitings, which may be agreeable, either to 

 Fanny or yourself to make or receive. If Fairfax, the farmer, 

 and Thomas Green, on each of whom I have endeavoured to 

 impress a proper sense of their duty, will act their part 

 with propriety and fidelity, nothing more will be necessary 

 for you to do, than would comport with amusement and that 

 exercise which is conducive to health. Nor is it my wish, 

 that you should live in too parsimonious a manner. Frugal- 



