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CC-H.778.021
4 Aug 1778:12 (706)
London, March 13. A correspondent acquaints us, that the
baggage of the first commissioner going out to America, is
making up to be ready for his lordship next week; and as the
contents are a little curious for a plenipotentiary, he has
sent us the following particulars of it:
Six dozen of best scented chicken gloves.
One dozen bottles essence of roses.
Twelve ditto lavender.
Thirty six pound of red and white powder.
Half a dozen opera glasses.
Forty boxes of pearly coloured powder for the teeth.
Three gross of brushes, ditto.
Ninety wardrobe cases for cloaths.
Forty pair of red heeled shoes.
One dozen muffs.
Twelve dozen best toothpicks.
An abridgement of the History of America, for the use of
children.
Hoyle upon Games.
Institutes of the Game of Whist.
The Calculation of Chances.
Two portable billiard tables.
A chest of sweetmeats.
Grotius de Jure Belliet Pacies, in calf.
Lord Carlisle's Poems.
A wooden horse to exercise on ship board,
Three Italian greyhounds.
A piano forte.
And
His Secretary.
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