[lentulusgracchus]

Did he use the word "jeans" in the same way we mean them, to mean blue denim? I wonder.

[stainlessbanner]

I found that interesting, too. Should be an original quote....here is the source

This letter is in the Cable Collection of the Tulane University Library. A portion of it appears in L. L. C. BiklB, George W. Cable: His Life and Letters ( N e w York, 1928), 22-23; and from that source an excerpt is included in Robert Selph Henry, "First with the Most": Forrest (Indianapolis, 1944), 437.