I know what you mean.

I have a book I found a little while back written by a minor but successful artist.

In it was a small slip of paper with her NY studio address and phone number writ on it in her hand.

What's that all about?

It was quite some time ago, before same sex coupling was accepted in most circles.

Did it have anything to do with that?

Just a fan?

It needs a story.

Life begins at the end of your comfort Zone.

I forgot to mention that I've always loved finding these sorts of things in books.  I'm not a bookseller, though... just a buyer and reader.  I've even found things in library books -- the most interesting from library books was probably a brochure about a tour of historic homes in Salem, Mass. in the 1920s.

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Current avatar: Emily Melville (1851? - 1932) in "Chimes of Normandy." Cabinet photo by Scholl of Philadelphia.

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I seldom find anything, but now and again I'll find Bugs.

That Wascally Wabbit!

One time I found a USA Basketball travel card, issued to a former NBA player, that allowed him to travel easily to and from the European country for whose basketball league he played when he didn't make a team in the States. Not a notable player at all, but a cool item. It was just placed between pages of a book I found, as if he was using it as a bookmark and forgot all about it after he played a few more years in the NBA and didn't need it anymore.

Very nice ribbon!  The book was a good storage facility.  If that is where it sat for 140 years I am surprised that there is no visible staining to the paper.

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sorry. that big thing I posted and the right margin is cut off.

It is written on both sides of a single sheet?

Looks a bit like a palimpsest with the other side showing through.

Reminded me of a documentary from a few years ago about the 'Archimedes Palimpsest' - minus the mould, of course. 

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A preoccupation with the next world is a clear indication of an inability to cope credibly with this one. .

I should add that it is a prison diary.. several southern prison camps.

Yes of course!

Probably not 'hands on' by the writer. We have a thought that Aunt Margie typed this out at the time the diary, autograph book and possibly the hand written reminisces were donated.  it presumes greatgreat (great) grandpa Bisbee could not type?? Though I don't know why he would not. I've thought Margie would be the sort of person who would have cleaned it up, but possibly I malign her!  It's interest is that is is a personal account that probably has never been published. He's quite nice about keeping names and diet. I've looked for the originals but... nothing too energetic. I'm sure there's more stuff floating around the family.  We have some of the bits of carvings he mentions 'working' on.  I've been told he built the old courthouse in Mpls. Anyway, the info's free for all on photobucket. 

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