Leavitte & Peirce
Leavitte & Peirce is a one of a kind store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that stocks a supply of games, toiletries, canes, walking sticks, umbrellas, pipes, and of course tobacco. This is a place straight out of N.J.S.'s Book II, stocking the same sort of miscellany: from cufflinks to umbrellas mixed all in with a good whiff of fine tobacco.
On the way in, we noticed a brass plaque outside the door, with a poem by Mark D. DeWolfe Howe, Class of 1882:
Narrowly parted from the yard,
a little college long has stood.
no flunkster ever yet was barred
from gaining all he might of good
about a brand of special knowledge
untaught within the larger college:
to know a good pipe when he tried it,
and lips and teeth to breath had plied it…
A ghost of Nicholas Storey was seen sitting in the upstairs seating area (which is outfitted with chess tables, rarely used for games) and grumbling about smoking no longer being allowed on the premises, reading reviews of his books. He had just made his way from Brattle Square, where he stopped by Colonial Drug, a purveyor perfumes and shaving brushes on a street once known as Tory Row (the Tories have since been evicted and fled.)
The Colonial druggist, mustache wax and all.
