Dear Friend Mollie, Lovely 1864 Handwritten Letter by Young Teacher with Two Pages of Cross-writing homemade stereoscopic slides who subsequently accumulate points/counters based

who subsequently accumulate points/counters based on rolls of the dice in relation to the cards they own

I imagine there is someone out there who really needs this

with flip up blade at the ready to read the sun-- but this is only the second I've found

late 1930s or so

Perhaps meant to represent--or at least allude to--Felix the Cat

Dear Friend Mollie, Lovely 1864 Handwritten Letter by Young Teacher with Two Pages of Cross-writing homemade stereoscopic slides who subsequently accumulate points/counters basedI'm always looking for examples of cross writing, but rarely come across them, so was very pleased to find this one at Brimfield, purchased from a favorite Pennsylvania based dealer. It is dated July, 1864 and addressed to "Dear friend Mollie," though I can't quite discern the signature of its author, who is a young teacher, in her first year of teaching it seems. ("Some think teachers have an easy time of it but my experience so far leads me to have