The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 24, June 12, 2005, Article 16

POSTCARD ARRIVES NINETY-TWO YEARS LATE

[OK, it's not numismatic, and it's only barely philatelic,
but it's too good a story to pass up. -Editor]

 From the Times-Union of Albany, NY, June 11, 2005:
"In March, Alice Corbin Fitzgerald went to the rural post
office in Grafton just up the road from her home to pick up
her mail. Postal worker Anne McGrath handed her a postcard.
On the front was a watercolor bouquet of lilies of the valley,
along with a poem of a religious nature and a Benjamin Franklin
one-cent stamp. It was mailed by Fitzgerald's long-dead aunt
Myrtle Corbin in 1913.

"My aunt mailed it from Hoosick Falls 92 years ago to her
mother, my late grandmother, here in Grafton, and now it
just shows up out of the blue this many years later. I should
at least thank the post office for delivering it."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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