Show F S HAS LETTERS OVEE OVER IRS OLD fred ashby showed us two treas ared heirlooms handed down in his family last week being ano til letters written by his grandfather to the grandfather grandfathers s mother one dated voi 12 1833 and the other july 22 1836 both letters were of the old old form before envelopes were u ip P 1 ot so folding the me letter that it rl d up hid the reading and then the address put on outside ant an I 1 ta tie e anole bound together with i i melted wax seal the place where tho the 0 d once adhered may be pl plainly tinly sen seon on one the address on the 1833 heirloom n was as mrs ashbee brighton market place near canterbury Faver sahm england the contents of the letter wen werl will legible though the ancient do doc ament Is yellowing and the ink Is beginning to fade the subject la Is an affectionate letter from the son to his mother the other letter Is dated from new york fri morning july 22 1836 we noted in its reading mat ter land may be got cheap a few miles from here at from six to seven pounds per acre that Is esay 30 to 35 per acre now that many millions for two hundred to three hundred pounds you may get snug farms and moat most of the land Is pretty good the torn paper where the hot seal had been impressed when the wax was hot may be seen on this quite plainly the creases or folds of the old letterese let terse are beginning to crack and the utmost care must be taken of them from now on the handwriting is excellent in a nice neat bold hand plain and easy to read the grandfather signs him self willm ashbee of the old form W I 1 1 1 on the line and in tucked up above with a dash below and a period the old heirlooms are priceless consider it a treat to have been permitted to inspect them |