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“I have a request to make of you; something like the barrel of sand, I suppose you will think it, but really of much more importance to me.  It is, that you would send out Mr. Bass, and purchase me a bundle of pins, and put them in your trunk for me.  The cry for pins is so great, that what I used to buy for seven shillings and sixpence, are now twenty shillings, and not to be had for that.  A bundle contains six thousand, for which I used to give a dollar; but if you can procure them for fifty shillings, or three pounds, pray let me have them.”
Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 June 1775

“I have a request to make of you; something like the barrel of sand, I suppose you will think it, but really of much more importance to me. It is, that you would send out Mr. Bass, and purchase me a bundle of pins, and put them in your trunk for me. The cry for pins is so great, that what I used to buy for seven shillings and sixpence, are now twenty shillings, and not to be had for that. A bundle contains six thousand, for which I used to give a dollar; but if you can procure them for fifty shillings, or three pounds, pray let me have them.”

Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 June 1775

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