Details

Title

South African Soldier's Monument postcard.

Author

E.W.F.

Collection

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

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Call Number(s)

937 SI Edith Russell postcard [1 of 3]

Abstract

Item 1 of 3 in a small collection of postcards showing Prince Edward Island scenes, all addressed 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 --indicate that the two women kept in intermittent contact for many years thereafter, into the 1930s. . This postcard bears a tinted / colourized photograph of the South African War [Anglo-Boer War] Monument, unveiled in Charlottetown in 1903. The sender, identified only by a signature as "E.W.F.", has no known connection to L.M. Montgomery, but the handwritten message on the card includes the note: "Going to visit Lucy Montgomery's [illegible] of Cavendish this week." The postmark is unclear, but the place of writing is identified as "Central Bedeque, P.E.I."; research by the donor has dated the postcard to July 16, 1926.