Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing blessing I'm not entirely certain what

I'm not entirely certain what is going on in this evocative little watercolor

I've photographed my favorite pages plus a representative sampling of others

The leather hinge connecting the lid to base on the back side is mostly split but one wouldn't know it when closed

The handle is hollow

Emma Dilmore's Late 19th C. Double Sided Card with Excellent Figures, House, Writing blessing I'm not entirely certain whatPure joy. I am forever looking for antique children's drawings like this, but finding them rarer and rarer to come by and to my eye the handwritten lettering on this one and the content of it, too! is just about as good as it gets. Pretty fantastic alphabet following Emma's name (I believe with an upside down M) on one side with woman and chicken and house with especially excellent array of widow treatments; and then on the other, another excellent