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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Lydia Maria Child. (search)
he renting and furnishing of a small house in Harvard street, in Boston. She spoke of her new home as a proper little martin box, furnished with very plain gentility, and thus went on to describe her wedding-presents: A pretty butter knife and cream ladle,—a study lamp,—from Mrs. Thaxter a jar of pickles [Mrs. Thaxter was the mother of Levi Thaxter, the Browning scholar.]—Mrs. White sent me a keg of tongues [Mrs. White was the mother of Maria White, James Russell Lowell's first wife.]—Mrs. Tyler Bigelow, a pair of plated candlesticks,—Emily Marshall, a pair of stellar lamps, and Mary M., polished steel snuffers on a plated tray. My mantua-maker has been here a week. I have a claret-colored silk pelisse, lined with straw-colored silk, made in the extent of the mode, enough to make anybody stare; one black figured levantine silk, and one swiss muslin. My wedding gown is India muslin, a good deal trimmed with white satin. Clarissa Bigelow is to be bridesmaid, and I have bought 35