Monday, September 1, 2014

Rebecca Buffum Spring to Mary Ann Day Brown, October 3, 1862

Eagleswood, Perth Amboy, N. J., Oct. 3d, '62.

I have got the pink brilliant and today Mr. Spring has taken the package to the express office. I hope to hear that you receive it all safe. Cotton goods have so risen in value that it is very fortunate that you decided to keep the piece. It is now forty cents per yard. So much cotton has been destroyed, I suppose even if the war was over it would still be high.

SOURCE: Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman and Arthur Crawford Wyman, Elizabeth Buffum Chace, 1806-1899: Her Life and Its Environment, Volume 1, p. 354

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