Correspondence – Mollylouhoo

Great Astronomical Discoveries, Correspondence from the Moon, Page 1, November 01, 2018, mixed media

image of closed envelop with the text Great Astronomical Discoveries written on the flap with is covered with torn brown packing paper. drawings of flowers peak out from the bottom of the envelope flap. there is handwritten text in the lower right corner that reads: It has been poetically said, that the stars of heaven are the hereditary regalia of man, as the intellectual sovereign of the animal creation. He may now fold the Zodiack [sic] around him with a loftier contentiousness of his mental supremacy. - Sir John Herschel, 1835

In this unusual addition to our journal, we have the happiness of making known to the British Publick [sic], and thence to the whole civilized world, recent discoveries in Astronomy which will build an imperishable monument to the age in