Christmas card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, paper and twine.
Measurements
112x82mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 294717
Summary
A Christmas card showing two horses pulling a cart in a snowy scene, with the greeting ‘Heap on more wood / the wind is chill / But let it whistle as it will / We’ll keep our Christmas / merry still. / SCOTT’. The inside fold is secured by a blue yarn string, and reads ‘MAY CHRISTMAS BRING YOU / HAPPINESS AND THE NEW YEAR / LASTING JOY // I wish this gift – a pathway bright / Of sunshine and sweet flowers, / With merriment and sweet content / To gild its joyous hours. / May Fortune smile the whole year through, / And bring the best of Luck to you.’ The back of the card is inscribed ‘With love / from / Winnie’.