Dear Mother, 1882 Letter with Sweet Little Drawings child photos tightly knotted at their necks

tightly knotted at their necks

forming a hard

including the the numbering - "710" in this case--on the bottom

5 1/8" in diameter

Dear Mother, 1882 Letter with Sweet Little Drawings child photos tightly knotted at their necksI just can't not rescue things like this. It's the two awkward drawings of the boy with hands in his pockets one on the back of the envelop, one on a separate little bit of paper that really do it for me, but the birds flying across the top of the letter and envelope both, and two little drawing of fans and springing flowers are pretty sweet too. And then this letter to mother, written a few days before the Christmas of 1882, addressing everything