Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (page 1/2)

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Harwood 2: scarp of paper (other side)

The other side of a small scrap of paper I found in my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities” with some writing on it which I cannot read. [more...]

Haynes School Charter from 1850

Somehow i ended up with this manuscript, which authorized the founding of a Church school for the poor in Haynes, Bedfordshire, UK, in 1850. Probably this was the school that’s in the South-West corner of Haynes Church End, almost at Clophill Lane, converted to a private house in the 1960s by an arcitect who lived there (Chris Robinson). My father [...] [more...]

Harwood 3: scrap of envelope.

A scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—there is a calculation, 14.56 × 225, giving £3,2557; there is also a stamp that I have taken for a postmark, reading “JY A? 11 ?806” which I have taken to be a date of July 11th 1806, with a missing letter giving a two-letter abberviatoin for [...] [more...]

Harwood 1: scrap of paper

A small scrap of paper from Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—I suspect it’s from the same person who left part of an envelope in the book, and dates from the early 1800s. [...]s, and half a pence?) and that 312 Galleons are £11/0/3. [more...]

Harwood 4: back of scrap of envelo;e.

The other side of the scrap of a letter or envelope that I found tucked inside my copy of Harwood’s 1801 “Grecian Antiquities”—there is a list of books written on it, which I tried to transcribe here. The books all seem to have been published before 1806, consistent with my readong of the postmark or stamp mark on the other side. [more...]