Physical description

Typed letter on Kiel and Loveland letterhead (features a photograph of a driver in a car and Art Nouveau design). The letter relates to the closure of the bicycle business in Sturt Street, Ballarat and is signed by C.E. Kiel.

Inscriptions & markings

Typed onto the letterhead:
'Dear Sir, Having disposed of our Motor Department we now beg to inform you that we are disposing of our Bicycle Business in Sturt Street so as to balance the books and terminate our partnership.
We now take the opportunity of thanking you for your esteemed patronage to us during the past 14 years, and trust that our endeavours to please you have met with success.
We would ask your assistance in clising down the books by an early remittance of all monies now due to us by your good self.
again thanking you for past favours,
We beg to remain,
Yours faithfully,
C.E. Kiel
(overstamped 'Kiel and Loveland)