Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cardboard signs 1850s New England I believe

1850s New England I believe

which must indeed be a lamp post

I don't buy much glass

covering the suits--celluloid I'd guess

Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cardboard signs 1850s New England I believeI'm spending more tine looking at old letters and documents in the interest of turning up quite singular and special ones like this one, which is many things at once, and provokes a range of empathies, too. It is a note from a grandfather to his grandson describing his expenses (rent, coals, "my society", washing and "you will see what I have to find myself in meat, shoes and cloath [sic"]. Which "leaves me about six pence three farthing a day to