A remarkable assemblage of the iconic swallow tail fingered oval utility boxes, these twenty examples are notable for their original painted or natural-finished surfaces.

One of the boxes retains an old handwritten note from a Shaker woman named Elizabeth addressed to a Simon D Horner of Pittsford, Vermont. She writes to Simon about daily life, like how she has been sick with "lung fever" and how the spring weather is "warm & pleasant one day, cold and blustering the next." She also writes with a yearning heart to Simon, who seems to have left the Shaker community: "oh Spring my Pet, how I wish that I could see you once more I would kiss that "moustache" all off...oh my dear Simon I have often longed to write you a loving letter just as I felt and tell you how I loved and sympathized with you...and if I write kind affectionate letters to the Absent ones, then thein call one deceitful and it not so. Brother mine, this is no Deceitfulness in me: for I would be just as loving with thein if thein would let me, but they won't, so I must do the best I can, and now I will go back to Canacle, to the time you left Home, oh how I felt when I found out that you was going to go away off, and after you went - it seemed as though my heart would break and the longer you was gone the more I mourned over your absence... I would not stop to rest until you sat beside me...Love...Elizabeth"