Thomas J. see to it that his Pa had a good-lookin’ suit of black clothes for his best, and a suit of pepper and salt for every day.
I also made him 2 new flannel nightcaps. And I myself had two new nightcaps made. In makin’ ’em, I departed from my usual fashion of sheep’s-head nightcaps, thinkin’ in case of a panick at sea, and the glare of publicity a-bein’ throwed onto ’em, a modified sheep’s head would appear better than clear sheep.
It wuz very dressy when it wuz done.
They wuz gathered slightly in the crown, and had some very nice egin’ on ’em—7 cents per yard at hullsail—7 and ½ retail.
It wuz good lace.
They wuz very becomin’ to my style.
I also made Josiah a handsome dressin’-gown out of a piece of rep goods I had in the house. I had laid out to cover a lounge with it, but I thought under these peculiar circumstances Josiah needed it more’n the lounge did, and so I made it up for him. I made a cord with two tossels to tie it with. I twisted the cord out of good red and black woosted and made the tossels of the same.
It wuz very dressy when it wuz done. And he would have worn it out visitin’ if I had encouraged him in it. He wuz highly delighted and tickled with it.
But I tutored him that it wuz only to wear in his state-room, and in case of a panick on deck.