We met members of the Bridgman family in an earlier postcard story:
The father, Mr. John Cloyes Bridgman, was married twice, his first wife died in childbirth.
This postcard is addressed to the second Mrs. Bridgman, nee Ethel Young Comstock.
Mrs. Bridgman graduated from Smith College and was associated with numerous civic and literary organizations.
J. C. Bridgman graduated from Yale University and was a noted industrialist.
The Bridgmans lived at this time in the city of Wilkes-Barre, a center of coal-mining and other industry in the Wyoming Valley of northeast Pennsylvania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes-Barre,_Pennsylvania
In the Fall of 1908, Mrs. Bridgman received a postcard with a lovely painted illustration of the rocky coast of Cornwall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall
This particular geological feature, called “The Devil’s Frying Pan”, was made by the collapsing roof of a sea cave.
https://www.cornishramblings.co.uk/post/devils-frying-pan
The postcard art was trademarked by the Peacock Brand, and was published by the Pictorial Stationery Company of London.
On the reverse, the sender is identified only by the initials, “I. L. P.”.
The sender is “in lovely Cornwall Country for a short vacation”.
With regrets that Mrs. Bridgman and J.C.B cannot be there, the sender expresses a hope to “show it (to) you some day.”
We know that the Bridgman’s had two sons, two years old in 1908, and that may explain the parents inability to travel.
It seems that Mrs. Bridgman was pleased by the postcard as it was preserved in very good condition.
One hopes that the traveler returned safely home and that the Bridgmans were able to see Cornwall at a later time.
