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Best Wishes

1905 / Creator Unknown

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A folded Christmas card with a color illustration of a gray kitten in a glove embossed on the front cover, with the text "Best Wishes" in red. Text on the inside of the card reads "All Good Wishes for a happy Christmas. Once more at happy Yule-tide, Accept my greeting true, May joys the best and dearest Crown this bright day for you! - E.A. Lempriere Knight" A handwritten note on the inside reads "To my dear Mrs. Barnabee; With loving Christmas Greetings and best wishes for a bright and 'Happy New Year,' from Anna Augusta Smyth, 1905."

~ “Best Wishes,” Portsmouth Public Library's Online Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, https://portsmouthexhibits.org/items/show/3770.

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Title

Best Wishes

Description

A folded Christmas card with a color illustration of a gray kitten in a glove embossed on the front cover, with the text "Best Wishes" in red. Text on the inside of the card reads "All Good Wishes for a happy Christmas. Once more at happy Yule-tide, Accept my greeting true, May joys the best and dearest Crown this bright day for you! - E.A. Lempriere Knight" A handwritten note on the inside reads "To my dear Mrs. Barnabee; With loving Christmas Greetings and best wishes for a bright and 'Happy New Year,' from Anna Augusta Smyth, 1905."

Source

Henry Clay Barnabee Collection

Publisher

Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections

Date

1905

Format

JPG derived from TIF

Language

eng

Type

StillImage

Identifier

PPL-MS: 1995.1.IX.059