Rob gets annoyed with me sometimes as I become involved in reading the backs of our postcards. In order to keep up with the higher and higher costs of eBay we have to present as many postcards as we can for auction – a lot of work. This postcard was easy to read and I recognised the signature at once; Pierre Loti, a French writer who lived very close to where I live now. I checked and double checked. I can’t prove that he was on that particular cruise ship but he did return from that direction at that time. The signature and the writing are his.
“For Mademoiselle Manuelle Chiappa, In memory of our crossing in the Ionie. – Sept 1913”
The young lady he dedicated the postcard to seems to have had a few admirers – I know because I’ve been reading the backs of her postcards….
One day I will find one written by Colette I am sure.
Added 12.08.12 - here is more
6 comments:
how could you not read the backs of postcards? -I also read discarded shopping lists and visualise their writers.
Rob and I are so different - he's the sensible one.
I thought you might enjoy looking throught this, a blog of found lists (though it hasn't been updated since christmas): http://ocdfinds.blogspot.com/
very nice. Here's a modest, though multilingual, find
http://www.flickr.com/photos/belvedere/3527662570/
Oh, how I love to find these things to read...People don't "write" much anymore...sad.hughugs
Colette will come calling some day; she just has to!
I've read of her and read one of hers, though I'd planned to get to so many more by now.
Of course, I'd planned to have been there by now as well...
I couldn't not read them...they are someone's vestige still present in the world they've left behind; not many are so gifted!
alan
Dru: I enjoyed the list - great find!
Donna: Finding the time is my problem at the moment...
Alan: I read a lot of Colette when I was younger. I could read her books in French now too. If only I had the time....
Now I have to read some of Pierre Loti's work.
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