1Edward Coles to James Madison, 31 October 1834 (Madison Papers)
...shall remove into it in about a week. The house is situated high up in Chesnut St in a pleasant part of the City, and is completely furnished, except in plate, China, glass, & table & bed Linens of which there are none. I gave more than I ought, but it was the only house with furniture that could be obtained. It will afford us an opportunity, at less cost than in any other mode,...
...covered with the same cloth. The pantaloons & waistcoat of this dress may vary with the season: the latter of which, when required by the season, may be of white; the former, of light brown cotton or linen. Shoes, with black gaiters in cold weather, and white stockings in warm weather, and in no case, boots—shall be worn by them. The neckcloth shall be plain black, in the cold; white, in the...
3John Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, III, Inventory of John Adams’s Estate, September 1826 (Adams Papers)
Linen—6 pr fine linen sheets—
4John Quincy Adams, Account of Sale of Part of John Adams’s Estate, 27 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
Linen2 pr. Linen Sheats 1 pr. Cotton 3 pr. pillow cases
5John Adams, Inventory of Estate, 5 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
Table linen 82.—Bed linen 143.
6John Quincy Adams, List of John Adams’s Wearing Apparel at the Time of his Decease, 5 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
8 Cotton Shirts 5 linen do. 2 cotton Caps 3 linen do. 7 Cambric stocks2 pr. linen drawers, bundle of old clothes drawers & waistcoats
7Appraisal of Personal Estate by Daniel Greenleaf, 1 August 1826 (Adams Papers)
Table Linen $82. Bed Linen 143—
...beneficial effect. Gordon in his History of the Revolution, (3 vol. 138,) records that the generous exertions of the daughters of liberty in Philadelphia, collected by committees of ladies, a sum of money sufficient to purchase linen, of which the ladies made more than two thousand shirts, which were presented to our suffering soldiers.
9William Jay to Noah Webster Jr., 17 July 1826 (Jay Papers)
...as well as of the scholar. It is a work of magnitude, and cannot be published without great expense, and therefore it cannot be undertaken without liberal patronage.” Appearing in two quarto volumes and printed on “fine linen paper,” subscriptions cost twenty dollars.
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 31 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
linen shirting for the bearer Burwell