[Manuscript letter, medicine] To dentist Dr. N.C. Keep, M.D. asking for a piece of sea-horse tooth
[no date noted]. A stampless letter to surgeon/dentist N.C. Keep, M.D. asking for a piece of "sea-horse tooth, of the smallest curve you have" presumably for a patient. Seahorse teeth was another name for walrus ivory, used in dentures for centuries in dentistry. The top portion of the letter is..... More

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