Question

You are Ms. Jean Robert, a resident of Lafayette, Louisiana; and you recently visited Parlange Plantation (circa 1750), located in New Roads, Louisiana. While visiting the plantation, you considered purchasing a hand-made quilt (pictured at the right) from the gift shop. The price of the quilt was your only point of resistance, but logic won the day—you saved $1,000.

The quilt portrays, in fabric, the bousillage construction of the ground floor of the Parlange mansion. The name of the quilt comes from the manner of using a mixture of Spanish moss, mud, sand and sometimes animal hair, placed between timbers to create the walls. French settlers use the technique in building the ground floor of Parlange and in many early French colonial houses in the lower Mississippi Valley during the 18th century.

Now, three months after your visit to Parlange, you have decided to spend $1,000 to purchase the bousillage quilt (listed by its French name—Le Bousillage Courtepointe—in the Parlange Plantation brochure). Your intention is to have the quilt sent to your son Guy who is in his freshman year at Michigan State University. You remember how cold winter nights can be in East Lansing, Michigan. The temperature on your first night in East Lansing was a frigid -19˚ (no wind chill factor added); you were there moving into your apartment before classes began for your first quarter of residency for your doctoral program. The bitter cold of that first winter night at Michigan State—January 3—remains crisp in your mind almost 35 years later. The quilt, you trust, will remind Guy of his strong roots in Louisiana French culture and will help to keep him warm.

Write to the gift shop and order the quilt to be sent directly to your son. Be sure to provide your son’s address in East Lansing:

Mr. Louis Guy Robert

287 Middlevale Road, Apt. 4A

East Lansing, MI 48823

The address for the gift shop is:

Parlange Plantation Gift Shop

8211 False River Road

New Roads, LA 70760

Ms. Henrietta Hebert is the manager of the gift shop at Parlange; her address would be:

Ms. Henrietta Hebert, Manager

Parlange Plantation Gift Shop

8211 False River Road

New Roads, LA 70760

Provide any details that are necessary for your letter to make sense.

Answer 1

Lafayette, Louisiana.

5 Mar 2019.

To,

Ms. Henrietta Hebert,

Parlange Plantation Gift Shop,

8211, False River Road,

New roads, LA 70760.

Subject: Letter to place order for bousillage quilt

Dear Henrietta,

I had visited your shop 3 months back and had really liked the bousillage quilt. I would like to place the order to buy the quilt for my son.

Kindly send quilt of best quality to my son in East Lansing. I am attaching the address of my son with this letter. I am also sending an advance payment of $200. I would prefer paying the remaining amount at the time of delivery.

Please fulfill the order request as soon as possible.

Regards,

Jean Robert.

Attachment:

Delivery Address: Mr. Lousi Guy Robert, 287, Middlevale Road, Apt. 4A, East Lancing, MI 48823.

Cheque of $200 to be paid to Parlange Plantation Gift Shop, New Roads.