A Visit To The Haunted Chamber (edited),1869 - William Frederick Yeames

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

Joan Didion (via mythologyofblue)

[” – Men’s letters are proverbially uninteresting and uncommunicative – ”]

Charlotte Brontë, in a letter to Ellen Nussey, dated 7 November 1854

you wear an ancestor's face. you look like a woman you'll never meet. in that mirror, there's thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.

Haddock & Holt’s Delineator, 1894

fraktur love letters (pennsylvania c.1800-1850)

gold angel pins

jean-honoré fragonard (french, 1732-1806)

“love the sentinel” ca. 1773-1776

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