signed
1833
by [Hieroglypic Letter]
1833. Lowell, MA: January, 22, '33 [1833].
Manuscript, 4pp. on a single folded sheet (224 x 178 mm), closely written in ink. Several closed tears along folds; faint foxing.
§ A sweet letter containing hieroglyphic character riddles sent by a young person to a close friend or relative. It sounds very much like a younger sibling writing to an older sister. The letter is signed "Milton". "Excuse my bad writing on the first page as you know I never went to writing school but one evening and then the master want [i.e. wasn't] there and we had no light". He (if it is he) writes of another letter received that had been damaged because the boat carrying it had been wrecked, and of the baskets that his mother is making "for the fair", which his father is bronzing, and also that he has "furnished a room about six inches square" as a miniature parlor, presumably a sort of doll house. The twenty tiny hieroglyphic drawings, all on the first page, are mostly decipherable but some are puzzling. (Inventory #: 126243)
Manuscript, 4pp. on a single folded sheet (224 x 178 mm), closely written in ink. Several closed tears along folds; faint foxing.
§ A sweet letter containing hieroglyphic character riddles sent by a young person to a close friend or relative. It sounds very much like a younger sibling writing to an older sister. The letter is signed "Milton". "Excuse my bad writing on the first page as you know I never went to writing school but one evening and then the master want [i.e. wasn't] there and we had no light". He (if it is he) writes of another letter received that had been damaged because the boat carrying it had been wrecked, and of the baskets that his mother is making "for the fair", which his father is bronzing, and also that he has "furnished a room about six inches square" as a miniature parlor, presumably a sort of doll house. The twenty tiny hieroglyphic drawings, all on the first page, are mostly decipherable but some are puzzling. (Inventory #: 126243)
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