Wonderful (and Long!) 1840 Letter from Elias A Brown To "My Dear Wife," with Beautiful Cross Writing J.T. Swartzenberg There is a what looks

There is a what looks a bit like a repaired hairline crack that runs across a couple of the fingers but it is not a repair

hand-sculpted of plaster (solid)

PA dealer as a great mid 19th c

I especially love the sort of X created at the bottom by one boy in a back bend and the other with body suspended in an arch from the beams above him

Wonderful (and Long!) 1840 Letter from Elias A Brown To "My Dear Wife," with Beautiful Cross Writing J.T. Swartzenberg There is a what looksI have for a long time wanted to turn up a good example of cross writing, shown here on the first page of this letter, brilliantly (and beautifully!) used in the early mid 19th century as a way of conserving space and paper. I just love to look at it! But happily this is a pretty wonderful and notable letter, too, written from Elias A Brown to his dear wife Louisa Anna (Cady) Brown in Minaville, Montgomery County, NY, 1840. There is a good bit about