Friday, April 17, 2015

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 21, 1863

Made a few purchases today; two common gingham aprons for G. for which I gave $12! Two thin, very common cotton stockings, $4 per pair! Ten cent handkerchiefs at $2.50 apiece. This little note book is a record of prices more than any thing else; yet when I look back a year or six months, to pages where I have made notices of prices, how very reasonable they seem now!

SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 162

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