One Last Notebook Page with Cipher Writing (and God Loves You + Clippings on Reverse), 1887 to wear but I can't quite make

but I can't quite make it out

but appears to have been carved from what I think must have been a lumbar vertebrae

Clearly it has had quite a life

its definitely pretty old

One Last Notebook Page with Cipher Writing (and God Loves You + Clippings on Reverse), 1887 to wear but I can't quite makeThe last of three loose 1887 notebook pages of very urgent looking writing I purchased a month or so ago from a dealer friend in Maine as found, though I wish I had the rest of the notebook they came from! I take this for cipher writing, written using a secret code, perhaps made for passing between one school boy and another. The graphite letters were certainly written while applying a whole lot of pressure to the pencil suggesting that the writer had