Apr. 10, 1912 A
Masonic Building and City Hall, Pawtucket, R.I.
Apr. 10, 1912 B
Mr. Nelson O. Dunham
Nantucket Island
Nantucket, Mass.
Dear O. Was very pleased to get letter and card. Will answer very soon. Do not let grandpa go to the home alone. But think it better for all to let him go. That is where he made his home. But as I said, do not let him go alone
Lovingly Aunty
12:30 PM
4-10-12
Emma (Cotton) Blake
Pawtucket, R.I.
1912.4.10
Document
1912.4.10.b
Oct. 3, 1906 A
Rocky Point, Narragansett Bay, R. I. 7369
Rhode Island News Company, Providence, R.I.
Leipzig Germany
Oct. 3, 1906 B
Mrs. Jennie Dunham
Nantucket, Mass.
Emma (Cotton) Blake
Mar. 12, 1912 A
Buried House, Sandy Banks, Bermuda
Notes:
One of two postcards sent by Grace (Lyon) Hallworth from Hamilton, Bermuda. Neither card has a clearly legible postmark, hence some additional information has been used to help date both cards. The stamp helps to narrow down the time period.
This stamp is listed as SG 77 in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue; Sc82 in the Scott catalogue. This series was printed between 1910-1925.
The “No. 54” following the publisher's address is probably a postal code rather than one associated with the archive of images held by the publishers. The number on the face of the card – B11043 – is the latter sort.
It is not clear why Grace would write to Jennie at West 8th St. in Nantucket. She may have mixed up Jennie’s address with someone else. Grace got the address right on the previous card she sent from Bermuda.
The most suggestive evidence for the dating is a manifest list from the S.S. Arcadian, departing from Bermuda on March 12, 1912. Both Grace and her husband, Frederick Hallworth, were aboard.
J.H. Bradley & Co., Hamilton, Bermuda No. 54
Mar. 12, 1912 B
Mrs. Jennie Dunham
West 8th St.
Nantucket, Mass.
U.S.A.
Grace
Mar. 15, 1910 B
Mrs. Jennie Dunham
2 West Centre St
Nantucket, Mass
USA
Greetings from Grace
Grace (Lyon) Hallworth
J. H. Bradley & Co., Qualified Druggists, Queen Street, Hamilton, Bermuda
March 15, 1910 A
Bermuda. "Frascati Hotel" Flatts.
Notes:
Notes:
You can see shutters propped open in the windows of the building in the foreground.
The card would have had to be written prior to 1912. By the summer of 1912, Jennie, her father (Charles Nelson Cotton) and her son (Nelson Olney Dunham) were all living in the same household on the Madaket Road in Nantucket.
The stamp (SG36, Stanley Gibbons; Sc35, Scott catalogue) was printed between 1906 -1909. A very faint postmark seems to read that the card was sent on the 15th of March. A passenger manifest for the S.S. Arcadian shows Fred and Grace departing Hamilton, Bermuda on March 12, 1910.
This is the first of a number of cards that are tied to Grace (Lyon) Hallworth. Grace Lyon was Jennie's childhood friend. They had both grown up in Pawtucket, R.I. In those early days Grace signed a small autograph book that Jennie circulated among her family and friends. Grace and Frederick had a single child, Carey.
Beyond their exchanges of cards there is at least one other written confirmation of their friendship. There is a 'Personal' note in the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror of September 5, 1914 that reads: "Mrs. Frederick Hallworth, of Longmeadow, R.I. was the guest of Mrs. Jennie Dunham, Madaket road, last week."
Oct. 12, 1908 A
St. John River, Westfield Beach, N.B. On Canadian Pacific Railway
Valentine & Sons, Ltd Toronto and Montreal
Printed in Scotland
Oct. 12, 1908 B
Mrs. Jennie Dunham
Nantucket, Mass
Eva Gardner