In a cabinet on one side of the room are a number of bound volumes of newspapers of Jackson’s day, which recalls the fact that he was an omnivorous reader of the newspapers and periodicals current in his time. His postage account with the Nashville postoffice in 1825 shows that he received regularly the following papers: _Washington City Gazette_, _Florence Gazette_, _American Farmer_, _Louisville Public Advertiser_, _National Journal_, _National Chronicle_ (daily), _Niles Register_, _Columbian_, _Louisiana Gazette_, _Kentucky Gazette_, _Baltimore Morning Chronicle_ (daily), _Jackson Gazette_, _Knoxville Enquirer_, _Allegheny Democrat_, _Mobile Commercial Register_, _National Republican_, _Knoxville Register_ and _Florida Intelligencer_—all these in addition to the Nashville papers. One wonders how he had any time at all for reading books! The little room to the right of the side entrance was originally designed for an overseer’s room, but was later used as a nursery for the children of Andrew, junior. Now it provides an admirable place for the display of the many interesting Jackson relics accumulated by the Ladies Hermitage Association. Here is a wonderful array of historical and personal relics—the General’s swords and pistols (also his prayer book and silver communion cup); his gold spurs, epaulettes and stirrups, and his dress suit; Mrs. Jackson’s lace cap and veil; specimens of the White House silver, china and cut glass; the famous candle taken from the tent of Cornwallis; medals; jewelry; letters and documents—an intensely interesting collection of memorabilia pertaining to the vivid career of the Hermitage’s master. Literally hours may be spent in this room profitably and pleasantly. [Illustration: One of the garden walks, with original boxwood and crape myrtle.] [Illustration: View of garden from the house, showing the tomb in the corner in the background.] The hall between the library and museum was originally an open entry, but was enclosed when the rebuilding was done. The closet on the right-hand side of the hall, under the stairway, was added after General Jackson’s death, but the left-hand closet was original. This was used in the old days to store the cotton goods made by the plantation spinners before it was doled out to the sewing women. Every year in the late fall the negroes were called up to the overseer’s room to be given their winter clothing, and this occasion was always seized upon by the negroes for a big celebration. A plantation slave orchestra, composed of fiddle, tambourine and bones, would make music while the negroes were coming and going and everybody—black and white—always had a big time on these occasions.