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Here are a pair of antique letters (written days apart, one envelope) dated back to 1889, addressed to a husband who was at Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia.
All ephemera has wear commensurate to age, including, potentially: nicks, folds, smudges, minor rips, age stains, old smells, and other imperfections. You get what you see :)