Here is a correct, but incomplete, list of Marie's personal expenditures during the five years of her reign as brevet queen of France: To goldsmiths and jewelers, four Hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars; to merchants of silks, laces, linens, millinery, one hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; for furniture, pictures, vases, et cetera, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; to gilders, sculptors, workers in marble, seventy-five thousand dollars.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
I don't know how we shall come on with the thread trade, but it seems as if we were to be done out with both thread and linens, for there is scarcely any thing selling with me on this journey.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
There should be ample built-in kitchen equipment for small and large utensils, kitchen tools and linens.
"A Living from the Land"
William B. Duryee