Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family

Harriet Anna Yancey to May Elizabeth Yancey, October 29, 1925

Holidays, birthdays and celebrations

This is a printed birthday card with a picture of a girl in a garden on the front.

Harriet Yancey wishes her daughter, May, a happy birthday.

To: Miss May. E. Yancey
V.N.I.I.
Ettricks
Virginia
From: 916 Grant Ave
Plainfield NJ
Postmark: Plainfield, N.J.
OCT 29, 1925
1 PM 6-3-E is handwritten on envelope.

A Happy Birthday

(page 2)

No Birthday message can convey
The wishes that are your today;
Nor could if ever, ever tell
How heartily I wish you well.

from
Mother.

Published by: Virginia Center for Digital History

Source copy consulted: Papers of the Benjamin Franklin Yancey Family (MSS 11599), Alderman Library, University of Virginia

Text and images (c) copyright 2001, by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia

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