Citation - Independent Ledger: 1778.07.27

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Index Entry Opera glasses, in baggage of commissioner sailing for America 
Location London 
Citation
IL.778.009
27 Jul 1778:42 (1/7)
The following was taken from a late London paper.  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 Belli et Pacis, in calf.
Lord Carlisle's Poems. 
A wooden horse to exercise on ship board,
Three Italian greyhounds.
A piano forte,
And His Secretary. 


Generic Title Independent Ledger 
Date 1778.07.27 
Publisher Draper and Folsom 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1778 
Bibliography B0018110
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