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Rh which are bound in red, and were presented by the Minister of Marine.

To my friend and nephew, D. H. Maury, who has been as a son to me, I leave any article among my present effects that will be most grateful to him to have as a "keepsake." (A subsequent will designated the Medals presented to him by the Pope.)

I desire that my dear, kind, and faithful sister-in-law, Mary Herndon, shall continue to reside in my family as heretofore, so long as it may be agreeable.

To my sister-in-law, Mary Herndon, I bequeath my Hexapla Testament.

To my brother-in-law, John Herndon, I leave the walking-cane of tortoise-wood which his brother Lewis brought me from the Amazon.

To my brother-in-law, Brodie Herndon, the cane that I may use in my last walk upon earth. And to Charles, a pair of my best London razors.

To my sister Betsy and her daughter Diana I wish a ring or a breastpin of my hair presented.

Thanking all my good friends and affectionate relations for their many kindnesses, and lamenting my own unworthiness, I commend them to God's holy keeping, and my soul to His gentle mercies.

Given under my hand and seal in the city of Richmond, this 4th day of May, Anno Domini 1862.

The war has made of no effect several clauses of my last Will and Testament dated as aforesaid, in that my darling boy John—God rest his noble spirit!—is no more, and in that the books left in token of esteem and affection to my two well-beloved son-sin-law, William A. Maury and Spottswood Welford Corbin, have