Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cardboard signs 100+ years ago or so

100+ years ago or so I'd think

1850s New England I believe

drawn on raw-edged heavyweight white rag paper

(Personally I really love the combination of the white with the cream one

Photos don't quite do justice to this one--getting enough light on the painting blows out the gold of the frame

Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cardboard signs 100+ years ago or soI'm spending more tine looking at old letters and documents in the interest of turning up quite singular and special ones like this one, which is many things at once, and provokes a range of empathies, too. It is a note from a grandfather to his grandson describing his expenses (rent, coals, "my society", washing and "you will see what I have to find myself in meat, shoes and cloath [sic"]. Which "leaves me about six pence three farthing a day to