“I was dressed in my yellow coat, black bib &; apron, black feathers on my head, my past comb &; all my past garnet, marquesett &; jet pins, together with my silver plume—my loket, rings, black collar round my neck, black mitts &; yards of blue ribbin (black &; blue is high tast), striped tucker &; ruffels (not my best) &; my silk shoes completed my dress.” A few days later she writes:— “I wore my black bib &; apron, my pompedore shoes, the cap my Aunt Storer since presented me with (blue ribbins on it) &; a very handsome locket in the shape of a hart she gave me, the past Pin my Hon’d Papa presented me with in my cap. My new cloak &; bonnet, my pompedore gloves, &;c. And I would tell you that _for the first time they all on lik’d my dress very much_. My cloak &; bonnett are really very handsome &; so they had need be. For they cost an amasing sight of money, not quite £;45, tho’ Aunt Suky said that she suppos’d Aunt Deming would be frighted out of her Wits at the money it cost. I have got _one_ covering by the cost that is genteel &; I like it much myself.” As this was in the times of depreciated values, £;45 was not so large a sum to expend for a girl’s outdoor garments as at first sight appears. She gives a very exact account of her successions of head-gear, some being borrowed finery. She apparently managed to rise entirely above the hated “black hatt” and red domino, which she patronizingly said would be “Decent for Common Occations.” She writes:— “Last Thursday I purchased with my aunt Deming’s leave a very beautiful white feather hat, that is the outside, which is a bit of white hollowed with the feathers sew’d on in a most curious manner; white and unsully’d as the falling snow. As I am, as we say, a Daughter of Liberty I chuse to were as much of our own manufactory as pocible.... My Aunt says if I behave myself very well indeed, not else, she will give me a garland of flowers to orniment it, tho’ she has layd aside the biziness of flower-making.”