On View
Not on view"Old Manse"...
Artist
John Tanner
1713 - 1785
DateEarly 1900s
Dimensions8.88 × 13.96 cm (3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
MarkingsPostmarked Gleasond[?], January 25, 5pm. (Year illegible)
Credit LineGift of Warren W. Meigs
Object numberM2139AR
DescriptionPostcard featuring a black and white photograph of a tree-lined path leading to the Old Manse in Concord, Mass. The caption on the white border beneath the image reads: "'Old Manse' built by Emerson's Grandfather just before the Revolutionary War -- Emerson wrote 'Nature' and Hawthorne wrote 'Mosses from an Old Manse' while living here". Addressed to Miss Agnes Learned, Hudson, Mass.
Message reads: "Dear Miss Learned: / I am glad to know you are nearly well again. Hope you will soon be back with us in Sunday school. Lovingly / Flora"
Originally part of scrapbook M2139; postcards removed from scrapbook during inventory 2006.
Message reads: "Dear Miss Learned: / I am glad to know you are nearly well again. Hope you will soon be back with us in Sunday school. Lovingly / Flora"
Originally part of scrapbook M2139; postcards removed from scrapbook during inventory 2006.
Object number: 2023.17.35
Object number: 2023.17.18