To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions duncan's yoyo which also makes one imagine

which also makes one imagine whether the masking of the image conceals even more creatures gathered around his feet

paperclips--whatever

surely they’d never be discovered by anyone else

Clara Ellaline Hope Leighton (sometimes Clare Veronica Hope Leighton) was an English/American artist

does your honour descend so far as to salute a slave

To Give a Fine Color to Mahogany and To Make a Strip Carpet, Earlier 19th C. Handwritten Instructions duncan's yoyo which also makes one imagineSince finding a wonderful "Reipt" (receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century) "to tempur [sic] edge tools" some months ago, I have been keeping a close eye out for other examples of manuscript instructions of a related nature, which feel both so immediate, as if just being passed along from one person to another, and also so much of their time and place. And not just one but two here on the reverse instructions for making a "strip