Best Wishes
1905 / Creator Unknown
Collection: Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
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 December 24, 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
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Format
JPG derived from TIF
Language
eng
Type
StillImage
Identifier
PPL-MS: 1995.1.IX.059