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I guess technically, they are old RX notes?
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an ancient place
shrouded in the wieght of history
the great King Alfred was born here
both Royalist and Roman
its in the Domesday Book
its value was 61 pounds
St Peter & St Pauls Parish Church, Wantage, Berkshire, England
K20D - JPG - Adobe Lightroom 2.2 - Photoshop CS3 - 3 Frame HDR
I can't figure out how to convey what these mean to me. Calling them love letters seems trite. I'll just say I can't imagine what my life would have been like without these.
Letter from James Asten, the town's Scavenger, to the Mayor and Councillors of Deseronto, Ontario.
[continued from page 1] "the work on December 6th 1934, I have kept a careful record of work done, and all expenses incurred, and in making this application would draw your attention to the following figures.
For the year ending December 1935, I received in salary $525. My expenses were as follows
$24. To A. Joyce for use of Dumping Ground
$25. Shoeing, and repairs to wagon and sleigh
$49 cfwd [carried forward]" [continued on page 3]
Part of a collection of materials found during the move of the Deseronto Archives.
These are some of the mail art stampsheets I made up to jolly up the mail art in the 1980s-mostly inspired by Michael A1 Waste Papiers intended to be shared sent out and generally played with.-This one is a collaborative one
"Geo: Ritchie & Co.
Dry Goods Importers
Belleville, Ont.
Belleville, 9th May 1887
My Dear Mr Robertson
Your favour of the 7th Inst just received, and with the other promoters of the B of Q Bridge Scheme I am gratified to learn that the reports of any indifference in the matter on your part are false and unfounded. Every Citizen of Belleville also will be glad to know this, and that the Bill is to receive the valuable aid it is in your power to give, - I may say that the rumour came to my ears not from an opponent but from a political as well as a personal friend of yours one who is eager, as all are here, to have the bill got through in such a shape that the enterprize can be practically carried out.
No one can over estimate the importance of this undertaking to the prosperity of our City.
The County Council of Hastings and also of Prince Edward have by resolution unanimously endorsed the scheme and recommended it to the favourable consideration of the Governor in Council and of Parliament.
The City Council have done the same and also petitioned for powers to be granted to the Company.
The only consideration other than the accommodation and facilities for traffic which a Bridge would afford to a great part of the people of Prince Edward and Hastings and the whole of Belleville is the Marine interest, now, this is in the opinion
of one who is more interested in the navigation of the Bay than any other man, can readily be provided for in the proper construction of the Bridge, as proposed.—Mr E. W. Rathbun gives his opinion in the following words.
“I can see no serious objection to a Bridge between Prince Edward and Belleville, provided it be constructed upon proper principles, having in view the Navigation of the Bay.
I believe the government can amply protect the marine interests from any injury.
It would be a great advantage to a large part of Prince Edward to have this direct connection with your city, and, I trust, you may receive that encouragement from the Government which I believe the enterprise to be worthy of”-
Should there be any opposition..."
An old Abdulla Imperial Preference tin that once held 500 cigarettes. The lid was held down with string because of the pressure from inside - literally full to bursting with letters and telegrams between my grandmother and mother at home in the UK and my grandfather on active service in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War.
I've hardly scratched the surface but they do seem to span the war years - the earliest ones being written for my mother by my grandmother and later ones, like this, written in my mother's childish handwriting.
Letter from James Asten, the town's Scavenger, to the Mayor and Councillors of Deseronto, Ontario.
"Deseronto
Ontario
January 10th. 1936
To the Mayor and Councillors, Deseronto
Gentlemen,
Having completed 1 year as Scavenger in Deseronto, I wish to apply for an increase in salary.
Since taking over" [continued on page 2]
Part of a collection of materials found during the move of the Deseronto Archives.
Letter to Hester McAfee from Arthur S. Lyne, Wesleyan Methodist Chaplain of Southend-On-Sea on the death of her son, Harold in March 1917:
"York Road Wesleyan Church
Southend on Sea.
March 16th, 1917.
Minister
Rev. Arthur S. Lyne
133 York Road.
Dear Mrs. McAfee -
I have this moring officiated at the interment of your son Harold. who as you will have been informed passed away on Sunday last at Qun Mary's Hospital here. He was interred as a Methodist and hence I was able to see him in the Hospital and asked to conduct his funeral. I had a chat with him some two weeks ago, when he spoke to me of home and you. At that time his ilness was not regarded as serious. The Anglican Chaplain who lives close to the hospital was called in on Sunday and I believe will be writing to you direct. But I understand that Harold received the Lord's supper on Sunday, gratefully and humbly; and that he died trusting in his Saviour. All of us who are connected with the hospital feel very deeply for you and the rest of his family. One young Canadian soldier who told me he was Harold's nephew was present at the grave-side. From him you will also probably hear. All that could be done, was done for him, the hospital is a lovely place, and the nursing staff, kindness itselff. The funeral was a military one, the body being carried on a gun carraige with the old flag over it, and a lovely wreath from the hospital. A body of troops followed and the salute was fired over the grave; and the last post sounded by the buglers. With deep sympathy believe me
Yours very sincerely
Arthur S. Lyne
Wesleyan Methodist Chaplin"
I took my Olympia SF ultra-portable typewriter on a camping trip and typed postcards to friends. The postcards are totally random: I found them at an estate sale.
Envelope addressed to Mrs S. [Susan] Maracle, 534 State Str, Rochester, N.Y. It contained a letter written by James Hill, who was working in a lumber camp in Algoma District, Ontario.
The envelope is printed "John Dalton, Furniture etc., Deseronto, Ontario".
Description: Correspondence from a staff member at the Great Western Railway office in Paddington, London, who went to war.
Read more letters from this group of soldiers here:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/telling-t...
Date: 1915- 1918
Our file reference: RAIL 253/516
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Description: Professional correspondence between Dummer and W.I. Thomas, 1921.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Ethel Sturges Dummer Papers
Call Number: A-127
Catalog Record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000604926/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
Copy of a letter from Thomas Edison declining an invitation to attend the 1924 United Empire Loyalist celebrations in Belleville, Ontario.
From the W. C. Mikel papers, this item donated in 1963 by Allan Dempsey.
"Cable Address 'Edison, New York'
From the Laboratory
of
Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N.J.
May 5, 1924
Hon. W. C. Mikel,
Mayor of the City of Belleville,
Belleville, Ontario.
My dear Sir:
I appreciate your kind invitation to attend the 140th anniversary of the settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists in June next, and thank you.
Unfortunately, I shall be unable to give myself the pleasure of attending this celebration as I am in the midst of a series of important investigations that require my constant presence at the Laboratory and I am unable at this time to make any appointments for the future.
Yours very truly,
Thos A Edison
TAE:JRO"
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Description: Professional correspondence between Dummer and W.I. Thomas, 1921.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Ethel Sturges Dummer Papers
Call Number: A-127
Catalog Record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000604926/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
These are some of the mail art stampsheets I made up to jolly up the mail art in the 1980s-mostly inspired by Michael A1 Waste Papiers intended to be shared sent out and generally played with.-
"Brooke [Norfolk, England]
Feby 17th 1839
My Dear Children
With great pleasure I recd your long wished for letter and I now take the pleasing opportunity of adressing one to you.
Many a time have I thought something had befel you in the Wars of Canada but the purport of your letter despel'd those fears so long harbouring in our brests we heard much about it by the papers and perhaps a great deal more than is true. We appear likely to have something of the sort here. People are arming themselves in the large manufacturing towns on account of the oppressive Corn Laws except there is an alteration we fear something serious will happen. I wonder the reason your sister don't write it is a long time since I heard from her perhaps too much business on her hands but still I wish she could find an opportunity once more to [write] us. Perhaps it will be the last favour I shall ever ask her to grant us in our old days remember we are dying creatures and our lamp will be soon burnt out and we are separated far from her. Do not think I ask too much her in particular only I know she can write plain and well which is much better than troubling strangers. You are all as dear to us as your sister and I trust always will be so" [page 2]
Part of a letter written to George Barlow of Belleville by his parents, Jesse and Rachel Barlow of Brooke, Norfolk, England on 17 February 1839. Donated to the Community Archives in 2011 by Rob Barlow (great great grandson of George).
Homemade envelopes using: magazine pages, scrapbook paper and other ephemera. I'll post my (free) templates when I've gotten them organized.
Homemade envelopes using: magazine pages, scrapbook paper and other ephemera. I'll post my (free) templates when I've gotten them organized.
Homemade envelopes using: magazine pages, scrapbook paper and other ephemera. I'll post my (free) templates when I've gotten them organized.
Back of postcard 2015.25 (3a). It was mailed in July 1913 in Barrie to Mrs Wm. Clewes of 29 Pembroke Street, Toronto.
The message reads: "Barrie, July 6, 1913
Dear Aunt Maud.
I Will leave here on the 5:15 train tomorrow (Tues.) It arrives in the city between 8 and 8:20 (in the evening). Have the band down to meet me - or the Orange Young Britons.
Grandma is fine & eating us out of house & home.
Will tell you all the news when I see you.
With love, Eunice".
Donated to Deseronto Archives by Mary-Anne Gibson, August 2015.
No correspondence.
An excellent quality portrait of a generously proportioned Landsturmmann from the 51st Infanterie Brigade.
So clear, laundry can be seen drying on the balcony of a building 300 metres behind him, and I wonder if that's his bike?
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers.
Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent
Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité,
Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté,
Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.
Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants,
Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies,
- Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants,
Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies,
Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens,
Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Nature is a temple where the living pillars
Let go sometimes a blurred speech -
A Forest of symbols passes through a man's reach
And observes him with a familiar regard.
Like the distant echoes that mingle and confound
In a unity of darkness and quiet
Deep as the night, clear as daylight
The perfumes, the colors, the sounds correspond.
The perfume is as fresh as the flesh of an infant
Sweet as an oboe, green as a prairie
- And the others, corrupt, rich and triumphant
Enlightened by the things of infinity,
Like amber, musk, benzoin and incense
That sing, transporting the soul and sense.
An old Abdulla Imperial Preference tin that once held 500 cigarettes. The lid was held down with string because of the pressure from inside - literally full to bursting with letters and telegrams between my grandmother and mother at home in the UK and my grandfather on active service in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War.
I've hardly scratched the surface but they do seem to span the war years - the earliest ones being written for my mother by my grandmother and later ones, like this, written in my mother's childish handwriting.