Handwritten invitation to the Thanksgiving Ball at The National House, Medway Nov. 30 1849 $2.00.

It also contains recipes for cordials, herbal remedies and prescriptions.

A laid in sheet written in ink states that Dr. Artemas Brown was born in 1789 in Winchendon, Massachusetts. In 1813 he studied medicine with Dr. George Holmes of Athol, Mass and in 1817 he took the degree of M.D. from Harvard. He started practice in Medway in 1817 and died there in 1863. Medway is in eastern Massachusetts on the Charles River, 22 miles north of Providence, R.I. It was settled in 1657.