Question

in the following sentence, what does the work "writs" mean? bills?

You know people send mother writs, don't you, uncle?"

Answer 1

writ 1 (rĭt) Pronunciation Key
n.
Law A written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act.
Writings: holy writ.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

Answer 2

I would lean on connotation here, it could mean orders (to pay, to cease, demands, or similar). I wonder what Mom has been up to?

Answer 3

And of course Shakespeare's usage in Much Ado about nothing...Leonato's lines..."This says she now when she is beginning to write to him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she have <b>writ</b> a sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all."

I included this remembering my Grandfather used the word as part of his vocabulary.