Letter to Laura Ann Arnold (Jackson), 1860

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Box 2, Folder 32

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Written from Lexington, Virginia. Letter regards furniture purchases.

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English

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Home Sept. 3rd, 1860

My dear Sister,

Boxing of table .75

All the articles are mahogany, and I like them except the $23 Bureau. I would get the $25 bureau as it is only $2 more and if the elegant wash stand is too expensive I will get him to make you a neat one for $10. I would advise you to get the $20 sofa, but if you prefer you can instead of the sofa get the tete a tate & $5 lounge which will come to $3 more than the sofa. But if you prefer the sofa, you can make a lounge of it by spreading a cloth over it. The tete a tate is handsomer than the lounge though much smaller than our tete a tate. I purchased oil cloth for the square & rectangle but didn't succeed in getting any for the stairs as it is not now fashionable for stairs. I got the oil cloth at Stewart's & they told me that they didn't know where any could be had for stairs.

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