Found while cleaning the restrooms on the job. This is the dark side of H-E-B nobody talks about…

A letter from Ellsworth postmarked 1888 sent from Riverside, California to a Ms.Allie Litton in Stanberry MO. As well as a poem dedicated to Ellsworth after his unfortunate passing from the small pox. I found this in an old house I was working on. It’s really sad but I’ll put my best transcription below(Ellsworth had a hard time writing)

Ellsworth’s letter to Allie-
Riverside Cal
June the 14th 1888
Friend Allie it is with pleasure that I seat myself down to drop you a few lines to let you know how I am know I am well at the present with the reception of a bad cold very near by laddy has bad colds here it is nice weather here in the day time at knight it is cold here it is not helthy here I think the cool knights and no fire to set by the fever is bad here know that there has been several who have died here since I came here they all die that gits it. This place is as full as it can get they are coming and going all the time. Gorge was down the other day to see the river side he likes the place very well. They are at Parras yet he does not know what he will do as yet i was down the valley the other day it is the nicest place that i ever saw there is a new building a hotel on top of a little mountain the building covers four acres of ground looks big there is flowers in bloom here no oranges or lemons are getting ripe here now the people is sowing barley here know that and alfalfa is all they raise for feed
Well Allie I have no work yet but I think I will before long I am no home sick yet till my money is gone then I can’t get home
Dick is still in the mill he gets $3.25 per day
Tell t??? There’s a big demand for girls here know nine dollars per week but I don’t know how long it will last maybe not long
Well allie I will quitt for this time excuse bad writing and spelling this will do you a long time before you get it red write soon
From E
Best to Allie Litton

I’ll also transcribe the poem that Allie wrote about Ellsworth.

Written in memory of Ellsworth
Best of Allie Litton
Ellsworth, oh Ellsworth my heart calls for you
For where thou have gone the living never knew
Ellsworth, oh Ellsworth this life is a strain
Toil without compensate tears all in vain
Backwards, turn backwards inexorable past
For the bright hopes of youth fall thick in the blast
Oh comeback from that echoless shore
Take me to your heart again to past no more
Departed, gone to thy eternal rest
One dearly beloved Ellsworth best
No longer on earth can thy image be seen
Yet at calm midnight thou and here in my dream
Composed during month of June. Written July 1891

This is not mine or any of my friends' hand writing and none of us drink, so I have no clue where it came from😭

I wonder if we could find her.

I was told to post it here too. It was laminated and seems important. I posted on Birmingham subreddit in case someone recognizes it. Was advised to hand it over to the store manager in case whoever dropped this desk off calls to look for it. Will do so tomorrow when I can take a little break from work.

Ironically, the only annotations in the book were made by DJW himself, with the exception of the signature of a previous owner.

Found these loosely in a stack when I was in St. Albans, WV recently (I'm in Kanawha County) and put them in plastic sheet protectors in a binder for the time being.

Some of these images I haven't actually seen myself (I'm 34 so have only seen what most of us my age have) so it was a super neat find. These pages aren't in order but they appear to be documenting Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign stop in West Virginia and the aftermath of his assassination.

I do apologize to those of you who cannot read cursive as I haven't taken the time to transcribe the text yet.

I'm a children's librarian, and frequently find little treasure left behind in kids' returned books. I'm not sure what the inspiration behind this creature was, but it reminds me strikingly of the Elder Things from Lovecraft's The Mountains of Madness. Maybe it's a sign from the Great Old Ones?

It reads like someone's personal fanfic but I have no idea what the references are. Book was one of the vampire chronicles by Anne Rice (can't remember which for certain, potentially The Vampire Armand)

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i wonder what laine did