Christchurch, not Queens, but you get the idea |
--How to do one's own laundry: “I beg to be informed by my mother to what uses I must apply the napkins, and to what the towels; how long a pair of sheets must be used before they are washed, and what price I must set on a stock if my laundress should lose one" (October 9, 1778)
--And thus proceeds to request a care package from good ol' mom: "This means no more than that I want a barrel of oatmeal, if you should have an opportunity of sending me one.”
Oatmeal? Really? To the left you can see my favorite undergraduate snack procured from outside the college walls. To each his own, I guess.
Oatmeal? Really? To the left you can see my favorite undergraduate snack procured from outside the college walls. To each his own, I guess.
And despite John James' protestations that "my eating almost never exceeds one shilling a day, except on very particular occasions" he has some trouble explaining to the parents why all his money has disappeared by the end of his first term. "I cannot see," he claims "how [the expense] is swelled so high."
Ahh. Such a familiar story.
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