New Year greetings from a Victorian scrapbook
To welcome the New Year, we’re sharing some Victorian greetings cards taken from a scrapbook in the British Library collections. An inscription at the front of the volume reads ‘E.M.L. from J.M. 76’. The identity of these people is a mystery. There are several items in the book linked to Church of England clergy and members of the gentry in Buckinghamshire - Princes Risborough, Stokenchurch, Horsenden, Aylesbury, Wendover, Hughenden. Does this clue help any of our readers to identify E.M.L. or J.M. in the 1870s?
New Year greetings from Untold Lives!
Margaret Makepeace
Lead Curator, East India Company Records
Further reading:
A scrapbook of printed ephemera British Library RB.23.b.7952