http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/exhibit/washington/letters/082314.html"he left me, beseeching me to take care of myself, and of the cabinet papers, public and private"
"At this late hour a wagon has been procured, I have had it filled with the plate and most valuable portable articles belonging to the house"
"I insist on waiting until the large picture of Gen. Washington is secured, and it requires to be unscrewed from the wall. This process was found too tedious for these perilous moments; I have ordered the frame to be broken, and the canvass taken out it is done, and the precious portrait placed in the hands of two gentlemen of New York, for safe keeping."
Her diaries, letter and other papers have been digitally transcribed in an on-line publication.
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