Mrs. Watson Ryan lived in North Brook, a neighborhood that is now a National Historic District in Chester County of southeast Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbrook_Historic_District
North Brook never had its own Post Office, yet the postcard seems to have reached the addressee.
We met Watson Ryan in two other postcard stories- the one below was mailed when he was a boy.
In December of 1920 (?), Mrs. Ryan received a Christmas postcard from her sister, Bertha.
(The postmark is smudged, but the stamp celebrates the Pilgrim Tercentenary of 1920.)
Bertha and her family lived in Downingtown, the borough of Chester County on the “main line” of the Pennsylvania Railroad which extends westward from Philadelphia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downingtown,_Pennsylvania
The face of the postcard contains a drawing of two bluebirds in flight before a wintry landscape of gently-rolling hills.
One bluebird is swooping directly toward the viewer.
A bright bunch of holly adorns the edge of the drawing.
Beneath the drawing is the legend, “In the flight of the Bluebird, May Happiness come to you”.
The postcard was made and published in the United States, but I cannot discern a publisher’s mark.
On the reverse, Bertha greets her sister and her family; she wishes a Merry Xmas and good health to all of them.
Bertha expresses regret that the families will not join one another this Xmas.
“With love”, Bertha sends her message.
Mr. Watson Ryan and the members of his family were collectors of much correspondence – I have seen dozens of postcards related to them.
One hopes that the families of Bertha and her sister enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and that they were able to meet one another in 1921.
