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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2060

(x) Historical Documents
Seventeenth Century: A long and sad love letter signed "J.B:", "The true content of a freind is never valued but in absence, did thou but know how ... I were of it, thou would scarce be able to defend thy self against the attempt of pitie...o my only deare, all day long thou art in my thoughts, & at night in my armes so y't sleepe is banished from me ... in so much y't my chickes are grown as pale as the paper I now write on ... O my deare Lorindâ, (The day before our parting) why should you have gone so strange as to tell me you dorst not be alone w'th me ...". Also a page from a family baptisimal record, 1629-77, of William and Elizabeth Mingay family (probably of Norfolk) with some medical and other remedies. Unusual documents. From the Gerald E. Wellburn collection.

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