Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961

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A less formal but more usual tea scene is the subject of another Hogarth painting, _The Wollaston Family_, now in the Leicester Art Gallery, England. The afternoon gathering has...

Concerning tea, the Abbé Robin went so far as to say that "there is not a single person to be found, who does not drink it out of china cups and saucers."[52] However exaggerate...

Letter from M. Jacquelin, York, Virginia, to John Norton, London, August 14, 1769. In, _John Norton and Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia, Being the Papers from Their Count...