A Christmas Postcard from Jane – Brooklyn, NY (1908)

We met Mrs. Eli Hess in an earlier postcard story.

Mrs. Hess lived in the rural borough of New Holland, in Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Holland,_Pennsylvania

On December 15, 1908, Mrs. Eli Hess received an embossed Christmas postcard from her friend, Jane.

The face of the postcard is a bight illustration of gold bells amid branches of holly.

Jane mailed the postcard from Brooklyn, New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn

On the face of the postcard, Jane writes that she intends to visit, if she can do so.

The wording is a bit awkward; perhaps Jane was unschooled or not a native speaker of English.

“Be to see you sometime if I can”

One hopes that Jane and Mrs. Hess enjoyed a wonderful Christmas in 1908, and that Jane was able to pay a visit in the New Year of 1909.

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