lip-and-epistolary

Updated: June 8, 2025

I shall take good care of myself. Little Maria sent me a pretty mug for my New Year's. I will not use my new napkin ring, as it is too nice to be lost or broken here. May God ever bless and protect you, and ever make you well and happy, is my ever prayer of your loving husband, OLLY." Let not the reader imagine that Olly's love was all of the lip-and-epistolary cheap style.

William F. Howe - Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations: The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes,: and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.