...contain all, and I have fixed every thing to the best of my ability; the desk I was fearful would injure the bed, I have sewed it in baize; the screws and key, are also sewed in the towel, I hope they will do no injury. the volume of Hume is there also. I directed the Card to “Alexander B Johnson Esqre. Utica. Care of Whitwell, and Bond, Auctioneers.”
2Burgess Griffin to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
the table Clothe & towels war found Since
3Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
but of flax we are progressing to make all our house-linnen, sheets, Table cloaths, Towels, some coarse linnen, & a piece of fine for my Shirts—