'From your own little girl!/De ta petite fillette chérie!'
Agnes Richardson portrayed a small girl penning a letter to ‘My Dear Daddy’ on the front of this postcard, entitled ‘“From your own little girl!”’ in English, and ‘“. . . De ta petite fillette chérie!”’ in French. The postcard has been addressed in black ink to ‘Miss Audrey Thomas, ‘Eventide’ / Torquay Road, Paignton, S. Devon / Angleterre’. Headed ‘France / 12/9/17’, the message reads, ‘Another picture letter for my dear little Audrey – with heaps of love and kisses from Dadda. xx’. ‘Dadda’ has also written ‘xx’ in the stamp box. Typeset text on the back states, ‘Inter-Art Co., Florence House, Barnes, London, S.W. / “ARTISTIQUE” Series. No. 1601. British Manufacture Throughout.’.
A British sentimental postcard
Front
Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
1917-09-12
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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