Exuberance.

Brown’s Three Tuns Hotel & Commercial Inn.
New Elvet, Durham, Sept. 9 - 10, 1909.
Being an obsessed manuscript Americana purveyor has led occasionally into the world of printed paper ephemera, and sometimes it’s not even American except by association, but with such an example as this (above), who could discount the enthusiasm? Look at that engraving, typography, and text…”Gigs & Saddle Horses on the shortest notice / Omnibusses to Each Train.” And you can tell this was a quality establishment offering, as they did, “Aerated Water” and “Bath and Fire.”

This is part of a suite of retained English tour memorabilia and personal finance congeries of American Rev. H. S. Huntington of Highland Street in Milton, Mass.