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London, to buy six small books for children from the famous booksellers, Mount and Page.
But by October 1761, Santa seemed only a step away from the lumps of coal left for naughty children. The lists were short with few frivolities. He ordered for 8-year-old Master Curtis:
“A Small Bible neatly bound in Turkey and John Parke Custis wrote in gilt Letters on the Inside of the cover,
“A Neat small Prayer Book as above with &cw.”
For Miss Custis, then six years old, he directed the personal shopper to buy:
“1 Fash dress’d Doll to cost a Guinea
“1 Do a 5 (shillings)
“A Box Ginger bFd Toys & Sug’r I mags & Comfits
“A neat Small Bible b’d in Timkey and Martha Parke Custis wrote on the Inside in gilt Letters
“A Small Prayer Book neat and in the same manner.”
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