R.F Burham's 1831 Poem to Miss A. Esty with Circular Writing Expression of Love! lace ribbon all the better for the

all the better for the surface wear and aging to the board

Perhaps Vanderbilt

Such an excellent array of names on these oversized pinback buttons

It's a (very) homemade box

with the hat regularly making its way around the room

R.F Burham's 1831 Poem to Miss A. Esty with Circular Writing Expression of Love! lace ribbon all the better for theI purchased this dated 1831, Hartland, Vermont from a favorite rare book seller in Maine, the source of many manuscript treasures. It is the circular writing at bottom right here that made this impossible for me to walk away from I can't remember if and when I've seen another example along these lines, and just find it fascinating and magical, too, writing in circles, a little world of words. And it seems to me it is there, in this small sphere of