Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cut paper works I am 99% certain it

I am 99% certain it is cast bronze rather than brass

spanning 1884-88

There is a black label in great condition on the inside top of the box reading "The Irvin Auger Bit Company

graphite and crayon (with a little bit of saturated watercolor too) on lightly lined paper

Please Pay My Debts + Ladies to Meet: Double-sided Note from Grandfather to Grandson, c. Mid 1800s cut paper works I am 99% certain itI'm spending more tine looking at old letters and documents in the interest of turning up quite singular and special ones like this one, which is many things at once, and provokes a range of empathies, too. It is a note from a grandfather to his grandson describing his expenses (rent, coals, "my society", washing and "you will see what I have to find myself in meat, shoes and cloath [sic"]. Which "leaves me about six pence three farthing a day to