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Miss Custis's room is a pretty little room with its old white curtained bed, (brought from Eng. away back in the eighteenth century. The outlook from the window is lovely, being a view of the Potomac beyond the Vernon grounds. Passing through a queer little passage way, we reached the room in which Washington died. There was his old arm-chair, very greatly worn; dilapidated leather-bags; surveyors articles; the old bed- [[strikethrough]] stead [[/strikethrough]], spred with a coverlet, made of flax raised in Ky. when that state was a part of Va.; A curious old secretary; and oh ever so many things. As was the custom in those days, the room was never occupied after his death.
Martha W. Died in the room just above this, on the third floor. It is thought that she chose this room for her last illness because it was the only one looking out upon the tomb. It is a little low room, lit only by a tiny dormer window. It impressed us as being a queer room for the death-scene of the Queen of American hearts. But after all the room had a refined air about it that we could not but feel, and the bed was hung with costly heavy curtains.
Not all of the furniture used in the house is the original used by Washington, tho' a great deal of it is. What other is in there is furniture of that age. The association, controling the property, which by the way is composed mostly of ladies, is doing all in its power to restore the original property and condition of things. The rooms are all small, and the ceilings low, - surprising