DescriptionA hand-written and illustrated invitation to a sailing party for Sunday morning, 10 a.m., October 28, 1906. The invitation is offered by Skipper Hartman, Mate Wilimouskyo [?] and Bo'sun Bielenberg, the crew of the good ship Pirate. The invite includes a faux ad promoting Saugatuck as a "pretty pitcher village. Contains a variety of characters, wrecks, sandsuckers, derelicts, art freaks, a brass cannon, pretty girls and a abundance of other material including hens and cider within a short distance." The invitation is on long sheet of dark paper that was folded in half. Invitation was initially on one side of 25-inch long by 4-inch wide, brown, flecked strip paper but the sheet has separated at the folds A hand-written response in verse accepting an invitation to a 10:00 sailing party on the ship Pirate signed "(Riely) Trolley Line Jess". The response covers six, 5.5x5.5" pages that are bound together at one corner with a red ribbon. Each leaf is a different kind of paper. The reply is illustrated with pasted clippings of a woman holding a shot gun and an a woman and child standing outside a "teepee." The response mentions "Bieley", "Charlie the Mate", "Bandles Ax", "Hen roosky ville Artists Institute" This response was formerly cataloged as 2016.03.12 but at some point it was paired with the invitation above.