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Handwritten valentine poem, c.1830s-1840s

Handwritten valentine poem, c.1830s-1840s

Image Reference: 55507
Measurements: 16 x 18 cm
Medium: text
Collection: Ephemera
Library Reference: VAL1/006
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: Handwritten valentine poem on a single sheet of pink paper with embossed stamp of paper manufacturers, Delarue and Co, London, with torn bottom edge. Handwritten poem reads: 'Loved one with fancys eye I see/Life's future path laid out for thee/Tithes, three hundred clear or more/Sermons a stork to make clowns snore/A London stocked with good fat fare/More worn than books an easy chair/Weinstcoasts? Waistcoats? ever growing small/Brats a score or more in all/Then when prol? up in time for church/Left almost shirtless in the lurch/Substitutes these pins shall he/For buttons not sewn on by me.' J.F.

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