The currency is in a transition state, and it does create
the strangest difficulties. Sister pays today $20 for having a home-made cotton
dress made up. Unbleached cottons are $8 per yard. People are trading as
far as possible, instead of paying money. As for example, the shoemaker tells
me that he won't make a pair of shoes for me unless I send him a load of wood;
so before the shoes can be had, the wood is sent. Flour is selling at $250 per
barrel.
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 177
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