Dear Mother, 1882 Letter with Sweet Little Drawings child photos each one representing its individual

each one representing its individual maker's solution to the problem of capturing

very gentle

It appears that three of the four bullet casing legs have stoppers on the bottom but one does not

I was delighted to turn this up poking through a box at Reininger's flea market in Adamstown

Dear Mother, 1882 Letter with Sweet Little Drawings child photos each one representing its individualI 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