Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cut paper works purchased in Pennsylvania this summer

purchased in Pennsylvania this summer and which I needed to live with for a bit

but I love him just as his is now

with a long band of staple repairs extending from one side to the other across the bottom and all the way up to the lip on both sides

graphite and crayon (with a little bit of saturated watercolor too) on lightly lined paper

Borers labeled 1-15

Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cut paper works purchased in Pennsylvania this summerI'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