“Clara Plans to Visit Dad” – Munsonville, New Hampshire (1913)

Mr. George S. Page lived in Munsonville, an unincorporated community of Cheshire County in south-central New Hampshire.

Until the 1990’s, the major east-west highway from Concord to Keene passed through Munsonville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsonville,_New_Hampshire

In November of 1913, Mr. Page received a postcard from his daughter, Clara.

Clara mailed the greeting from Marlborough (the post office was “Marlboro” until 1965), a town of Cheshire County – about 12 miles southwest of Munsonville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlborough,_New_Hampshire

The face of the postcard shows a bright drawing of a chalet amid trees.

Birds are flying overhead.

A verse describes the attraction of “Home”.

“There’s a little word-

The plain word, Home

But it’s sound is sweet

Where’er we roam”

I cannot discern a publisher’s mark; the postcard was printed in the USA.

It seems that Clara was thinking of home.

On the reverse, Clara describes her plans to visit her father:

“If the weather’s fine and we’re all O.K., you can expect to see (me) Wed.”

Clara asks Dad, “Is there anyone going to Keene that day that I could ride with excepting Bassett.”

(Keene, the principal city in Cheshire County, is a lovely place of about 24,000 people.

Keene abuts the town of Marlborough.)

I am not sure if Bassett is a person or a transportation company or conveyance, but Clara clearly does not favor this option.

She asks her father that, if he thinks of anyone, that he will give her a telephone call “any time before 10 AM on Wednesday.”

If Dad cannot identify any other options, then Clara will have to ride with Bassett.

One hopes that the weather was fine, that everyone was well in Munsonville, that another ride was available to Keene, and that Clara enjoyed a pleasant visit with her Dad at his home in Marlborough.

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