1900's Valentine

One interesting thing I came across while cleaning a stack of letters from 1900-1909 was this valentine sent from Gertrude at about age 9 to her brother Richard at Exeter in 1905.

Most of the letters in this batch are to Richard from his mother, Susan Negley. These were fairly clean and not too difficult to lay flat. Only a couple of letters need to be humidified. There is a bundle of letters from Richard's time at Yale to be cleaned next, tied together with some string.

Many of the letters in this collection are held together in this way, or rolled up as shown in a previous post.

-MCM