Christmas card
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, Pen, Ink
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749075.13
Summary
Christmas card - one of a collection in a white envelope containing a typewritten letter with a personal note at the bottom handwritten in blue ink. Card - Front - bottom opening card with a winter scene of a cottage, children skating on frozen pond, a man with a dog, a horse and cart and snow falling. Inside top - plain white card Inside bottom - white card with printed in black ink in the centre With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year Underneath, handwritten in blue ink: From Iris & Jack Hassett Rear - white card printed in the centre: Top in red 'help' Every card helps 33 charities below this a list of the charities in 2 columns and underneath this: The company which produces Help Cards is wholly owned by the above Charities between whom the profits are distributed Joint Charity Cards Associated Plc. London Bottom left Printed in England Bottom right TM4/124 Letter - Headed - From The Rev'd J.R. & Mrs L. M. S. Hassett 25a Abbey Row, Malmsbury, Wilts. SN16 0AG underlined December 1984 With the approach of Christmas we remember our many old friends and althou- gh we do it in this rather impersonal way we do think of them all individually. Please accept our prayerful good wishes for Christmas and the New Year as expressed to you personally. ........ there follows 6 paragraphs ending with: One way and another life is very good to us and while we are physically fit and mentally alert we are thankful to be enabled to continue actively in the Lord's service. God bless you all, handwritten in blue ink at the bottom: We hope all is well with you. Forgive this impersonal way of giving you news of us.