Block of cherry wood 2" wide by 2 and 3/4" long; 7/8" deep, with engraving some to the depth of 1/8" as the sides defining the area of the printed block. Engraved by Thomas Bewick.
Mailed envelope, for first letter, autograph addressed and return address marked.
One sheet of paper with a print in black (ice skaters on a pond) and text around it in red ("With a vignette engraved by Thomas Bewick in 1799 the Middletons send you Greetings - Christmas 1944.")
One of three pulls of this block, this one inked the lightest.
One of three pulls on fine paper of this large block, this one inked in the middle and with more detail of the fence post, but perhaps less on the left. All are 8" by 10."
Printed in red at the bottom of the sheet is Print Number 46, on the right, with Bewick: Cherryburn Edition 1970" on the left.
This is a standard envelope for holding unfolded standard stationery, with a flap at one end, here in the right. In pencil Middleton has written on it at he top in large letters, "Prints for Mrs. Paepcke." Below this, centered at the addressee location it reads "R. H. Middleton / 4722 Dover St. Chicago."
A copy of v. 6, no. 10 (October 1998) of the Caxtonian, with "The Professional Bookman: Middleton at Ludlow," 1, 6, by Paul Gehl, and "Beck's Turtle Press Emerged from Bob Middleton's Cherryburn Press," 7, by Bruce Beck.
"Remembering Bruce Beck..." article (photocopy) from Caxtonian, v. 17, no. 11 (Nov. 2009), 1-5.