Handmade birthday card with poem
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
card, paper, ribbon
Measurements
117 x 79 mm
Order this imageCollection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 793281.14
Summary
Small hand made birthday card from "Eric" but not addressed to anyone in particular. Front decorated in blue and gold with the message "Good wishes". Tied together with ribbon, insert inside has poem and small picture of two women dancing and playing music in a classical style.
Provenance
Part of the Hussey Collection. The contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 2006 by Mrs Elizabeth Hussey.
Marks and inscriptions
Front middle : Good wishes Insert, left page: Birthday. I send this little card to wake / A memory of me, and tell, / how oft for "auld acquaintance sake" / I think of you, and wish you well, / So take, though parted be our ways, / The kindly wishes it conveys. H. M Burnside From Eric