I mentioned that family lore said Ray got hit with mustard gas during World War I and never really recovered from it. Here we have a post card from Ray to "Mrs. W. R. Peterson" (which would be Ollie, his wife) from a hospital in Grants Pass, Oregon in February 1920 (from the postmark).
Hello girl. Will have to stay here at Hospital for 2 or 3 days don't worry am all right getting 3 squares a day and a good bed at night. I'll will write again soon. Ray.
Front caption: After the Bath. Copyrighted 1907 D. Hillson
Message on back: hello Dear Mrs Tyler Man-ma and I received your cards and was glad to hear from you. Hurry on & come home I want to see you so bad. From Ola and Mama
Addressed to: Mrs. T. W. Tyler, Bowie, Texas
Postmarked at Hugo Oklahoma, 9 PM Sept 9 1908, but the stamp has been removed (carefully). Probably steamed off.
D. Hillson would be David Hillson of Roxbury, Mass. This particular card was listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4, New Series, Volume 2, Nos. 27-30, July 1907 on page 450 as: Hillson (David), Roxbury, Mass. After the bath (F 55123, June 12, 1907.) [9680
On Front, lower left corner: Copyright '07 H C Westerhouse, N.Y.
Message on Back: Dear Cousin I will write you a Card Well Ollie our school started the 22 it has run just swell it will run 9 months write soon
Addressed to: Miss Ollie R, Okla City, E L D
Front Caption: To My Valentine
Lower left corner on Front: 5009
Message on Back: from Cousin Ollie Hawk mile, Tex
Addressed to: Master George Reeder OK
Front Caption: Hello, Merry Christmas.
Message on Back: From Rina Owings
Addressed to: Raymond Peterson, Rogue River, Oregon
In lower left corner on back: Series 213 C
Front Caption: Christmas Cheer
Why should we look with tearful eyes
Across the hills of Sorrow?
Let Christmas cheer our hearts today
And bring faith for the morrow.
Addressed to: To Ray from Alice
On left edge on back: 434 (C) Illustrated Postal Card & Nov. Co. N. Y.
On Front, calendar for 1913, January to June and July to December under a bell with a ribbon with writing "A Joyous New Year".
On Back: For the message, a printed statement: Merry Christmas, 1912. I consider Farm Progress the best semi-monthly farm paper published, and am having it sent to you for a year as a little remembrance.
I know you will enjoy reading it and you will find it very valuable to you in many ways.
Happy New Year, 1913
Not a post card, but mixed in with everything else. It would be mailed in a small envelope and when removed would look as above. Then opening the flap on the left and pulling the fold on the right, it would expand to
Showing the verse:
I give thee all, I can no more
Though poor the offering be --
A loving heart is all
the store
That I can bring
to thee.
The back has a small message in the middle " RTS Trade Mark By Special Appointment Publishers to her Majesty the Queen", and then lower down, centered, "Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, Paris, New-York.", "Designed at the studios in England and printed at the fine art works in Germany". In the lower left corner "Artistic Series" and in the lower right corner "Copyright".
The "Special Appointment to her Majesty the Queen" form dates this piece from 1893 to 1901, the Queen being Queen Victoria.
Probably an early valentine. The verse is a modification of "My Heart and Lute" by Thomas Moore, around 1823 or 1825.
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