Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 408
at a great philosopherof our own world wore a precisely similar dress inhis youth. Madam Mary Bradford writes in a pri-vate letter, at the age of one hundred and three, ofher life in 1805 in the household of Rev. JosephEmerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson was then a little The Dress of Old-time Children… … Ralph Izard when a Little Boy. 1750. wore complete home-made suits of nankeen. Thepicture amuses me of the philosophical child, RalphWaldo, walking soberly around in ugly yellow flan-nel, contentedly sucking his thumb ; for Mrs. Brad-ford records that he was the hardest child to break 320 Two…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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