RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS -- LONDON ; PARIS ; NEW YORK -- PRINTED IN SAXONY, unusual way to send greeting using both words & images in the letter, easier to demonstrate than describe-see scans, used in 1894
Title
flags & holly at top, MY DEAR HURRAH FOR XMAS I HOPE YOU WILL NOT HAVE A COLD TO KEEP
Prefix
to keep
Number
2
In set
QV Saxony NRA
Item Comment
continuation of message YOU IN THE house BUT IF YOU HAVE TO BE INDOORS TAKE YOUR pallet AND paint-box AND PAINT YOUR OWN Xmas cards YOU MIGHT TAKE THE SAME spade THAT YOU DUG WITH LAST SUMMER AT THE sea-side AND MAKE A BIG snow-man IN YOUR GARDEN. I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE ON CHRISTMAS DAY A book A NEW SHUTTLE-COCK, A PRETTY doll A BIG ball.TRY TO MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY LIKE YOURSELF. WILL YOU NOT GIVE SOME money OUT OF YOUR purse OR money-box TO POOR CHILDREN --SO THAT THEY MAY HAVE SOME crackers, sweets & pudding TOO FEED DEAR pussy-cat WITH HER MILK IN HER bowl AND REMEMBER TO THROW SOME CRUMBS TO THE bluebirds -of happiness. I SEND MY BEST LOVE YOUR LOVING oblong, single sheet, single fold
