Oskaloosa, Iowa, Oct. 15, 1887.
Crane & Allen:
I dare not use some of the “fluids,” once having lost four finger nails in using one kind, and others harden the skin and benumbs the fingers so that the touch is not as delicate as desired. I will now stick by your Preservative as it is just as nice for the undertakers hands as can be, softens and cleanses so nicely that it is a pleasure to use it and it has never failed us in embalming. I like it again from the fact that when a gallon of it is injected into the arteries the face and other surfaces are whitened which others I have tried does not do, therefore the friends can better see the effect of your work.
J. B. McCURDY.
And again on June 14, 1887.
Crane & Allen:
I ordered 10 gallons of “fluid” because the party of whom I ordered was such a nice “demonstrator” and although I gave my hands only one light wash of it; it was bidding fair to be as bad for them as ever any of the “fluids” were, and I will use it up with gloves, but gentlemen, I find on account of my hands and the satisfaction that the C. & A. Preservative gives me, that I will have no other, when through with the 10 gallons referred to.
J. B. McCURDY.
Thomaston, Conn., Jan. 14, 1884.