Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cardboard signs covering the suits--celluloid I'd guess

covering the suits--celluloid I'd guess

which must indeed be a lamp post

and a pair of stick pins used to bind it

Photos don't quite do justice to this one--getting enough light on the painting blows out the gold of the frame

I like the contemplativeness of this carved bas relief portrait

Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cardboard signs covering the suits--celluloid I'd guessI'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