Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 566
r boy fifty yearsago, and perhaps understands at last why a life soneedful, so noble, and, above all, so full of the simplejoy of existing, was ended so early. Old letters and old garments bring us in closetouch with the past; there is in them a lingeringpresence, a very essence of life. Here the… … The Romance of Old Clothes 807 bits of cherished laces, tell of the gathered egg-moneyor petty legacy sent across seas to France for bridalfinery ; these India muslins speak of the homegardens tribute of sage or the wildwoods unwillingyield of ginseng, which journeyed on a venture tofar Cathay…
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