1To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 7 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
: A stout linen fabric used for toweling (
2To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Remsen, 19 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...have examined the fresco paintings of Schneider in Mr. Bruce’s house, and found them equally fresh and vivid as when first done. They bore this appearance before I tried their durability with a coarse towel dipped in soap suds. In that trial the center pannel, on which was painted a landscape, lost nothing; but another pannel nearly opposite to the door of your bed chamber, on which was...