Old letters

In Allegheny County, PA in the year 1792, the grand sum of one hundred and twenty pounds was enough to buy a farm, including: four cows, three calves, two bay horses, seven sheep, two sows, twelve shotes, three feather beds and bedding, furniture, and the crops in and out of the ground. Back then, they were setting their "seals" to documents, just as we do today - note the hand-drawn "seal" in the lower right-hand corner.

I warned you a few days ago that I'm a slow learner, and all the troubles I had with my bakery sign didn't teach me my lesson not to choose elaborate fonts to cut out on vinyl with my Silhouette machine. I truly expected this project to be a failure and probably be a total waste of time, but I felt compelled to try it anyway. Here's why. I bought an adorable 1895 school primer. It is filled with some

Brenda Arledge has given Hubpage authors a 24th prompt, which is “letter”. There is an acrostic poem and a poem that bemoans the fact that many children are no longer learning to write in cursive.

Taken from an old letter a family member wrote years ago, I created this antique-looking background paper. This would look great on a scrapbook page either traditional or digital.

Captain Wentworth's impassioned letter to Anne Elliot in Jane Austen's "Persuasion". May I marry him?

You can now hold Mr. Darcy's dispatches in your hands.

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