1John Quincy Adams, Josiah Quincy, III, Inventory of John Adams’s Estate, September 1826 (Adams Papers)
11 do Towels
2To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 2 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
...John Hawkins of London, he wished me to give him my observations on the means of preserving health, he said that he had thought of publishing on that subject, he said his practice was to wash with a coarse towel of a foot square, then rub dry with another coarse towel and ...bag in which he put his wet Towels, and thus he always had his bath at hand—I have begun the same practice, and find...
3Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August [1817], document 2 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
states that the towels previously sent were “a ‘heartsome sight’” but worries that
Could you my Dear Mother, without inconvenience, speak for a piece of Diaper towelling, for me? they make it so much better, in your part of the Country than here, that it is really an object to obtain it; I should like it about the width & quality of those you...
...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.”
6Charles 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—
7Burgess Griffin to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
the table Clothe & towels war found Since
8Enclosure: Nicolas Louis Vauquelin’s Analysis of Green Tobacco, 12 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
, they were compressed in a towel to seperate all that was soluble. This operation was repeated three times, adding a small quantity of water.Altho the vegetable was sufficiently squeezed in the towel, the juice contained a great quantity of green matter in suspension, which was seperated by filtration, by means of
I went last evening to take tea at Mr. Paynes a few minutes after I left home a Candle which was standing on my drawers, owing to a sudden curent of air sett fire to a towel which was thrown over a Basket and in a few moment was in a blaze fortunately it was soon extinguished although I lost several articles of Cloathing which I must tax your Pocket to replace you will perhaps wonder at...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 10 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...score for a long time past adieu my dear Papa I do not know if I gave you a list of the things most wanting in the house I do not exactly recollect what they were but sheets, towels counterpanes and tea china were I think foremost on the list your linen has not arrived or it would have been made up before your return the children all join in love and anxious prayer that nothing may...