[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, March 13, 1813]
Mentioned in this letter
- Business, Economy, and Travel
- Hotels - Indian Queen Inn
- Home, Health, and Social Life
- Fashion - Bonnets and Hats
- Fashion - Lace
- Fashion – Cloth
- Food - Grains
- Health - Disease and illness - Headache
- Jewelry - Earrings
- Jewelry - Rings
- People
- Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1777-1869
- Done, John, 1747-1831
- Eyre, Ann Upshur, 1780-1829
- Eyre, John, 1768-1855
- Jackson, Louisa A. Bowdoin Evans, 1790-
- Quinby, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle, 1801-1875
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837
- Teackle, John, 1753-1817
- Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
About this letter
- Description
- Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton Dennis Teackle, with a detailed list of goods she received in the mail from him. She says that her sister Ann Upshur Eyre and her husband, John Eyre, left for Philadelphia this morning and restates their need for lodgings. She asks for silk cord and lace for her bonnet, and says John Done would be able to bring it to her.
- Creator
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur
- Creation Date
- March 13, 1813
- Subjects
- Teackle, Elizabeth Upshur, 1783-1837
- Teackle, Littleton Dennis, 1777-1848
- Item Type
- letter
- Identifier
- MSS 2338, 2338-a, 2338-b Box 1
- Publication Information
- Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families, 1759-1968, Accession #2338, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Institution
- Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
- Collection
- Voices of the Eastern Shore
- Place Names
- United States - Maryland - Somerset County - Princess Anne
- United States - Maryland - Baltimore County - Baltimore
March 13th 1813 PA
I received your letter by Captain Turpin this minute from Mr. Done who sets off for Balt tomorrow morning, and whom I shall entrust this letter to. The goods mention’d in yours were rec’d per Muir viz.
30 lb & spun cotton
1 patent coffee biggin
3 gall spermaceti oil
1 bbl flour
50lb coffee
1 C wt brown sugar
2 lb imperial tea
1 ream paper
1 piece ribbon
1 yd patent net lace
2" gauze
1 dressing comb
2 tooth brushes
2 boxes corail tooth powder
6 scanes sewing silk
Earrings and Louisa’s ring
5 copies of the select reviews
All in good order. Louisa’s ring I gave to Col. Wilson who promised to deliver it to her. It came in good time as she was to set out for home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Eyre went off this morning for Philadelphia. I am surprised that you have receiv’d no letters from me as I have written several letters, one
by the last Mail acknowledging the receipt of several from you, and requesting you to hint to Mr. Bancker, Mr. Eyre’s anxiety about lodging in Phila, and he being afraid that your father to whom Mr. E. wrote on the subject [illegible] have rec’d their letter, and he wish’d to have her some agreeable quarters ready for her on her arrival.
We are all as well as usual.
Mr. Done has promised to call on you for any commands you may have for me. In one of my last letters, I mention’d a request for you to add to my memo 16 yds of white silk cord which I want to trim my bonnet for the summer, as I don’t want to buy one more expensive than of my own make. As I mention’d, 8 or ten yds of white silk footing lace for the same, which Mr. Done will bring to me. The flour is very good and just came in time as mine was exactly out. If you find it convenient you had better get another bbl as you have chosen better than the skippers ever do.
I would write you some thing amusing in addition to business if I cou’d, but really writing distresses my head so much that it is painful. My poor pate is more trouble to me that all the rest of my corporation.
God bless you! Eliza’ths love
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