"I'll write a letter soon but now, as time is pressing hard, to let you know I think of you, I send this postal card."
(Owen Card Pub. Co., Elmira, New York)
Earlier this month, we featured a few vintage postcards from this collection. To use a familiar phrase, there are lots more where those came from. We began this week by poring over another stack of these cards, and smiled at messages written over 80 years ago, such as, "When are you coming to visit us, cousin?" or "I got new boots!"
How many of us today take time to write a note to a friend just to say hello? (No, those on-vacation, "Wish you were here," cards don't count!) Has letter writing become a lost art in our society of almost-instant communication? The cards in this collection are inspiring some of us to pick up our pens a bit more often.
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