Christmas card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper card, Ink, Pen
Measurements
165 x 103 mm; 104 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749075.12
Summary
Christmas Card - one of a collection in a white envelope Front: Right opening card, A picture of a robin on a branch which is covered in snow. Inside left - White card handwritten in blue ink: Just a few lines of Greetings and Good Wishes hoping that you are keeping the flag flying in Blyth Grove. The other day we had a rather sad letter from Robert Neil in his retirement but I expect you know all the news of him through St Johns. Nora is having a very difficult and painful time with systemic Lupus Erythematosis and with her spine affected she finds it very hard going with stick or walking frame. This week she has started a Lupus Research Group here - to raise funds for the main research team based at Hammersmith Hospital where she met Princess Diana last March. Below this is printed in black ink KIDNEY RESEARCH Sold in aid of the National Kidney Research Fund. 184B. Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2RH Middlesex. Across both pages next to this is handwritten in blue ink: Cynthia is house manager and doing a wonderful job while I am the odd job man - chauffeur gardener painter and repairer no end! All the best - Cliff Inside right - white card printed in the centre in black ink: With best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year Handwritten in blue ink above this: To William - and underneath handwritten in blue ink: From Nora, Cliff and Cynthia V Rear - white card printed in black ink in the left hand corner: copyright logo 26556 Printed in U.K. In the right hand corner a black crown with a star on top and below it: SP2/25 Robin bottom centre: copyright logo 1983 Chris Andrews Photographic Art Oxford