Show when washington sought mount vernon vemon steward excerpts from a letter from george washington to samuel frannces follows As no other person can judge better of the qualifications necessary to constitute a good housekeeper or household steward than yourself for a family which has a good deal of company and wishes to entertain them in plain but genteel stylo style I 1 take the liberty of asking you it if there is any such one within your reach whom you think could be induced to come to me on reasonable wages I 1 would rattier rather have a man than a woman but either will do if they can be recommended for their honesty sobriety and knowledge of their profession which in one word is to relieve sirs mrs washington from the drudgery of ordering and seeing the table properly covered and things economically used nothing more therefore needs be said to inform you of a character that would suit me than what Is already mentioned the wages I 1 now give to a man who is about to leave me in order to get married under which circumstances lie he would not suit stilt me is about per annum but it if one who understands der stands the business perfectly and stands fair in all other respects I 1 would go as far as 11 diary indicates that lie he found it necessary to pay richard burnet 40 a year as steward this was about |