1866 – A fascinating solicitation from a Liverpool merchant seeking funds to purchase a boarding house so the destitute widow of a former New York City associate could support her family
Liverpool: 1866. Unbound. This one-page printed solicitation was privately sent by Jas. Moore of Liverpool on October 15th, 1866, to George Rogers of Lee, Kent (a small parish southeast of London). In nice shape. The notice reads::. At the time, running a boarding house was one of the few..... More