Details

Title

Charlottetown, P.E. Island From Fort Edward postcard

Author

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942.

Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Call Number(s)

935 SI PC LMM 1907

Abstract

A postcard, addressed -- in L.M. Montgomery's handwriting -- to "Miss Edith Russell" of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Edith May Russell (1877-1957) was hired to work in the newsroom of the Halifax, Nova Scotia newspaper 'The Daily Echo' in 1902, during the time L.M. Montgomery was employed there; notes in Montgomery's journals -- and surviving correspondence, including this postcard -- suggest the two kept in intermittent contact for some years thereafter; indeed, Montgomery would note, on the occasion of her 25th wedding anniversary in 1936, that she had received a congratulatory card from Russell. Another collector of Mongomeriana, the late Christy Woster, acquired a postcard from Montgomery to Russell, dated October, 1906, with a note suggesting that Montgomery and Russell were helping each other collect local postcards. This might explain why this card bears an address but no message: the postmark on this card is for Cavendish, May 21, 1907, and by this time Russell and Montgomery may have been exchanging postcards fairly regularly. The image of the front of the card is a coloured lithograph of the historic Fort Edward Battery (now Prince Edward Battery Historic Site), looking northeast towards Victoria Park, Government House (Fanningbank), and Beaconsfield.