Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 421
^^ dilating upon it. Cotton Mather and Sewall had many pious differ-ences and personal jealousies. The parson was ahandsome man (see his picture facing page 42), andhe was a harmlessly and naively vain man. Hequickly adopted a great bush of vanity — and avery personable appearance he makes in it.… … Perukes and Periwigs 233 posed he means wearing a Perriwigg, writes Sewallafter tliis sermon ; I expected not to hear a vindica-tion of Perriwiggs in Boston pulpit by Mr. Mather. Poor Sewall! his regard of wigs had a severe testwhen he wooed Madam Winthrop late in life. Shewas a rich widow. He had…
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