Subject: Shakespearean quote
Type: Greeting card
Year: 1910
Text: “All days are nights to me til I thee see, And nights bright days when Dreams do show me thee. -Shakespeare”
Message: “Dear brother John, after long waiting I received your card. I was very glad to see that you happened to think of me once again. Well, I had a good time yesterday. I had a day of (indecipherable) and went to a Sandy School picnick. I had a nice boatride to. Well I see you are always busy. are you going to have a big corn crop? This year, much corn to husk? When you get time write a long letter to me once again and tell me all the news. Well, it is bed time so I close (indecipherable)…”
Note: the spelling errors above are in the original note.
This particular card falls into one of my favorite card categories: poems and quotes. This one has a beautiful quote from Shakespeare that I had never heard before.