The Other Woman

This folded note was tucked into a used book I bought decades ago. It’s a letter from a pissed friend of Sylvia Wroe, who is telling “the other woman” to lay off Sylvia’s husband. Now, why Sylvia kept it is a mystery indeed. Seems like the kind of thing you rip up in a jealous … Continued

Around The World

Fell out when I was inspecting the record after having it given to me in a batch of a friends’ deceased husband’s collection. Yellowed card with the lyrics to “Around the World”, a song made famous by Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. I’m sure there’s a love story behind this.

You are an incapable…or a hands job…

This note was clearly referred to someone incapable of doing something…however it’s quite fanny the fact that “pippa” has another meaning that could definitely change the meaning of the note…being that hands job.

In Want of a Wife

I found this message typed on a 3×5 card tucked into my dad’s Complete Works of Shakespeare college textbook.

My Dearest Beloved

I was going through a set of old books donated to the library by the family of a recently deceased leading citizen. This note was in one well-worn textbook. I don’t know if this note was directed at him, from him, or why he kept it all these years in a book he probably used … Continued

Best Left to Interpretation

My sweetie and I discovered this note in an antique desk in the attic of a house we moved into– I think it’s best left to interpretation.