Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 440
ay.In one thing they can beenvied. Knowing not ofgerms and microbes, dream-ing not of antiseptics andfumigation, they could behappy in blissful uncon-sciousness of menacingenvironment — a blessingwholly denied to us. When James Murraycame from Scotland in1735 he went up the CapeFear River in North… … Andrew Ellicott. We deal so much in caps in this country that we arealmost as careless of the outside as of the inside of ourheads. I have had but one wig since the last I had of you,and yours has outworn it. Now I am near out, and youmay make me a new grisel Bob. 348 Two Centuries of Costume…
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