As I mean to keep a note of the way prices advance, I will
mention that the perfectly plain crape bonnet which Mrs. Jackson got in
Richmond cost $75 and a bombazine dress, as plain as could be made, cost about
$180. Mr. P. paid for some days' work of a white man, a short while ago, at $8
per diem.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 166
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