Account book of an unidentified tailor from Annapolis, Md., covering the years 1819-1823. The entries of the ledger indicate that most of the clients who visited the tailor's workshop were male professionals seeking custom-made formal clothes, or repairs for coats, trousers, and suits. Some of the names that appear throughout the volume are those of John, Richard, and Philip Harwood; William Hall; judge Richard Ridgely; lawyers Jonathan Putney, James MacRubin, George Shaw, John Collingson, and John Wells; senators William Jackson and Levin Gale; and schoolmaster William Wilson. For some transactions, the form of payment (usually cash or check) is recorded, as well as whether the customer opted to pay the full amount in advance (for example, at the time of placing the order for custom-made items), in one installment when picking up the item, or over time. Pasted inside the covers are two newspaper clippings: the first, inside the upper cover, from the advertisements page of the Albany Daily, dated 26 Jul. 1821, containing instructions for easing some of the most painful symptoms of cholera; and the second, pasted inside the lower cover, from the Poet's Corner of the New York Evening Post, with a copy of the poem The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake. Stored with the manuscript is also a newspaper clipping from the Chicago Daily News, dated 4 Nov. 1933, containing a few brief articles about art galleries around the world: among them, highlighted in ink is a piece about English watercolors.
