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A few of our ladies fired to a more fastidious taste, bought their best bonnets at Mrs Osbern's in Northampton, sometimes venturing as high a price as These works of art were carefully packed in really huge bandboxes of those days, made of high colored paper and ornamented with with [sic] most tropical scenes and ex- aggerated flowers unknown to any botany. Thise [sic] treasures were carefully committed to the sincerest protection of Brown, the always-driver of the daily four-horse stage coach that ran betwen Amherst and Northampton, which left us quite early in the morning and brought up with cracking whip in front of the Post Office promptly at five in the afternoon. Brown delived [sic] these boxes with a positively tender unrewarded by the scene behind closed doors, -- the tilting and trying of this foreign bit of millinery so tragically disturbing to any woman of taste and ambition!
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Not to be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. Transcription and commentary copyright 1998 by Martha Nell Smith, Laura Elyn Lauth, and Lara Vetter, all rights reserved Maintained by Rebecca Mooney <rnmooney@umd.edu> Last updated on January 25, 2008 |
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