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Autograph Letter Signed (with initials WW, but identified in docketing note), New York, October 8, 1800, to Joseph Hurd, Jr., care John J. Adam Lodge, Merchants, Liverpool, Sent by ship Justina

Autograph Letter Signed (with initials WW, but identified in docketing note), New York, October 8, 1800, to Joseph Hurd, Jr., care John J. Adam Lodge, Merchants, Liverpool, Sent by ship Justina by Wood, William

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Title
Autograph Letter Signed (with initials WW, but identified in docketing note), New York, October 8, 1800, to Joseph Hurd, Jr., care John J. Adam Lodge, Merchants, Liverpool, Sent by ship Justina
Author
Wood, William
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
Quarto, two pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, in very good clean and legible condition. Wood comments on the slovenliness of New Yorkers: "Dear Hurd, Once more on our nations sod, and never, never (I believe) will I leave it again, we had only 43 days passage, rather pleasant, but for the whole time, I never had one regular e -----n, think now how horrid, I certainly drank a gallon of --- I can hardly mention it, Castor Oil but thanks to heaven, as soon as I had taken lodgings I can scarcely believe I am home, yet when I look into the street, I am too fatally convinced by the slovenly appearances of the Yankees, one with his dirty shirt, another blowing his nose almost into my pocket, Oh God! How such dirty habits can pertain to the inhabitants of the 2nd City of America is unaccountable. As you never travelled to the Southward, I suppose a description of this place would be acceptable, but as I have not been but in 1 street yet, I cannot gratify you, however you may take it for granted, London is full as regularly built and as handsome every way – I see the Boston vessels have arrived … I am waiting for a letter from home and shall then depart and then dignity, greatness, elegance can, must depart also for the menial offices of wriging C---ts, and of selling taps may remember me to every person who I care for with you to C. Horshall in particular also to the old dutchess Hartwell – I am thinking you must have about returned to Lpool to inhale smoke & damps for the winter I am enjoying one of the most lovely days our climate can produce … W --- W …" Hurd and Wood (who had been born in England) were prominent Boston merchants active in the early Anglo-American trade. Wood later founded the Boston Apprentices Library.
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Percival's Patent Pinless Chain Clothes Line. The Only Line Ever Invented to Hold Clothes Without Pins by The Pinless Clothes Line Company

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Percival's Patent Pinless Chain Clothes Line. The Only Line Ever Invented to Hold Clothes Without Pins
Author
The Pinless Clothes Line Company
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
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Description
(Worcester, MA): The Pinless Clothes Line Co., 1880. Good. Small broadside, n. d. (1880s); 10 1/2 x 4 1/2; off-white stock, printed in black and illustrated with a woodcut of two elephants pulling a pair of pants and tearing it off a clothesline; uniform age-toning; top and bottom edges brittle with small chips affecting a few words at the bottom margin (reinforced with archival paper); in about good condition. "No more use for clothes pins" boldly proclaimed the broadside, issued by the Pinless Clothes Line Company of Worcester, Massachussetts. The pinless clothes line was patented in the 1880s and was advertised as the only line "that holds clothes without pins." It was made of galvanized steel wire (not rusting and allowing for the line to be left out to the elements, with no need to re-hang it every time). The garments' edges were to be put into small slots in the line and then thrown over it, thus relying on the weight of the clothes to keep them pinned. The driving force behind the invention was most probably a fierce competition with the increasingly-common spring-based clothespins - the latter first appearing in the 1850s and being constantly manufactured and improved into the 1880s. The Pinless Line was sold exclusively through the company's own salesmen, with each one given a specific territory to sell the product.

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