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" 1 silver colored tabby velvet of the enclosed patterns, with satin 

 flowers, handkerchief and tucker and ruffles to be made of Brussels 

 lace or point proper to be worn with the above negligee, to cost £^0 • 



1 piece bag Holland, 6 shillings a yard ; 2 fine-flowered lawn aprons ; 



2 double handkerchiefs; 2 pairs women's white silk hose ; 6 pairs fine 

 cotton ditto ; 4 pairs of thread ditto ; 4 threaded ; 1 pair blankets 

 and 1 pair of white satin gloves of the smallest fives; 4 pairs cala- 

 manco ditto; 1 fashionable hat or bonnet; 6 pairs women's best kid 

 gloves; 6 pairs ditto mits ; half doz. knots and breast knots; 1 doz- 

 round silk stay laces ; 1 black mask ; 1 doz. most fashionable cambric 

 pocket-handkerchiefs; 2 pairs neat, small scissors; 1 pound sewing 

 silk, shaded ; real minniken pins and hair-pins, and 4 pieces binding 

 tape ; 6 pounds perfumed powder (for the hair); 3 pounds best Scotch 

 snuff ; 3 pounds best violet Strasbourg snuff ; 1 piece narrow white 

 satin ribbon, pearl edge; a puckered petticoat of a fashionable color; 

 a silver tabby velvet petticoat; 2 handsome breast flowers." 



" For Miss Custis, six years of age : A coat made of fashionable silk; 

 a fashionable cap or fillet with bib apron ; ruffles and tucker to be 

 laced; 4 fashionable dresses to be made of long-lawn ; 2 tine cam- 

 bric frodks ; 4 satin capuchin hats and ueckatees; a Persian quilted 

 coat ; 1 pair pack-thread stays ; 4 pair callamanco shoes ; 6 pairs 

 leather, ditto ; and 2 pairs satin, ditto, with flat ties ; 6 pairs fine cotton 

 stockings ; 4 pairs white worsted, ditto ; 12 pairs mits ; 6 pairs gloves, 

 white kids ; 1 pair silver shoe buckles ; 1 pair neat sleeve buttons ; 6 

 handsome egrets, different sorts; 6 yards ribbon, ditto ; 1 pair little 

 scissors ; 3 M large pins ; 3 M short whites ; 3 M minnikens ; 1 fashion- 

 able doll to cost a guinea; 1 ditto, at five shillings; a box of ginger 

 bread. Toys and sugar images and comfits. A neat small bible bound in 

 Turkey, and Martha Parke Custis wrote on the inside in gilt letters. 

 A small prayer book, neat and in the same manner. Twelve yards 

 coarse green calamanco ; one very good spinet to be made by Mr. 

 Plinius, harpsichord maker in South Audley street, Grosvenor Square. 

 Send a good assortment of spare strings to it." 



Of course the gentleman of the period could not be expected to 

 compare in elegance with the grand dames. Yet with his coat of 

 black, brown or drab cloth, his knee breeches of plush or velvet, his 

 fine ruffled linen, his silk stockings, and his shoes with their silver 

 buckles, he made no insignificant figure, even in comparison with the 

 full-dressed gentleman of to-day. 



