Mourning Stationery

THERE IS MUCH MOURNING STATIONERY at the Book Shop. If some of you want it, you can get it at the place mentioned above.  H. M. WHITNEY [H. M. WINI].

[In the olden days, letters composed while the writer was in mourning were often written on stationery edged in black.]

(Kuokoa, 12/26/1863, p. 4)

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke II, Helu 52, Aoao 4. Dekemaba 26, 1863.