Jan & Janes Holiday. Poem
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Anno Col
Postcard depicting couple at a railway station looking at a sign advertising 'Cornish Riviera'. Text of poem 'Jan and Jane's Holiday' reads:
"The Carnish Riv-reera! Well, Jane!!
I wonder what that there do mane?
It do seem some queer;
Let's read this 'ere 'ere
P'raps the readin' do av ut explain.
It do say, "you mus' go by these line
Hef you want to find 'ealth and sunshine."
If the picture be true
What the artis' 'ave drew,
We'll do theere wan day when tez fine.
But we can't 'ford the train now-a-days,
So we'll go in our old donkey chaise.
Niver knawd theere or such
A gran' plaace, within touch;
Tho' we've lived 'ere in Carnwall always."
AE Philp Series. Postmarked Newquay 30 June 1906. Original Card in colour
Angove
Morrab Library
1970
Morrab Library
Print
ARTS 9.004
A Few Lines from Dear Old Cornwall
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Anno
An unnumbered Frith postcard (printed in Saxony as many of them were). One of a variety of this type to be found in old collections. This card titled 'A few lines from Dear Old Cornwall' is a mock letter written in Cornish dialect with a blank for the sender to fill in the name.
It reads:
My dear -----
i now take my pen in hand to write you these few lines hopeing this will find you quite well has this do leave me at present tez lovely weather hear how are you gettin on you'm some stranger our way excuse more this time has i ave won or to more too write two an i donate want to miss the poast. Love to ee both.
Aunt Martha
Angove
Morrab Library
1970
Morrab Library
Print
ARTS 9.001