...again set forward with two old ragged Shirts past service which was all I could find to give him during the few hours that he staid—Mr A. requests you will have the goodness to purchase a piece of Linen for him and have it made up as soon as possible and when he arrives I will thank you to fit him out anew with every article necessary to make him comfortable. He will not want any more...
2From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 31 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
...Calico & your Bill, in which I find Several mistakes which I Shall point out as I proceed. when you purchased me the Bombazet, I enclosed ten dollars. You bought me 7 yd 2 Skeins of Silk Some linen, one pound Tea 6 pd currents & 3 pd of coffe, the last of which I took tho I did not Send for it. all these articles of Groceries you have omitted in Your Bill—I then Sent...