Mrs. Quick is better—good isn’t it? Were you surprised to have my letter so soon? Went to see “The Crisis” last Fri. Very very good. Hackett is an ideal lover. I am to visit a friend this eve. Would rather hug the fire it’s so cold. I like this card very much. Don’t you Lizzie?

Lovingly, Agnes, Jan 19-03

Miss Elizabeth D. Golden
Bellows Falls
Vermont

Doris salvaged this card from the oft-mentioned secret upstate bookstore—intrigued by Agnes’s fantastic script on the address and the scandalous mention of her ‘ideal lover’ Mr. Hackett in the note.

From what we could find on Google, “The Crisis” is probably a play based on the American author Winston Churchill’s The Crisis written in 1901. The Speedway depicted on the front is now the Harlem River Drive here in New York City.

“When we meet the truly great, several things may happen. In the first place, we begin to believe in their luck, or fate, or whatever we choose to call it, and to curse our own. We begin to respect ourselves the more, and to realize that they are merely clay like us, that we are great men without Opportunity.” —Winston Churchill The Crisis