1To 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...
2Charles 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—