Here instead, we address the emotional economy of the everyday: when,
where and with whom sentiments were withheld, demanded and "freely" displayed. We attend to a more prosiac genre of aides de mernoire tied to the noneventful
and the senses.12 Colonial domestic relations were invoked through
recollections of the color and texture of clothes, the taste and smell of unfamiliar
foods, the sound of partially understood conversations and commands,
and through reference to sweat, soaps, chamber pots and fragrance.13 Sentiments
lay not outside of nor behind tactile memories, but embedded within
them.