Halloween Countdown 2022 - Day Six

 

Day by day the merriment gets closer!

My family archive has perhaps 200 postcards from Katherine. She signed all of them either "Katherine" or "K" without a surname and therefore in spite of all that mail she is the mystery woman, a perfect choice for our Halloween countdown. By the time (1960) we inventoried the large card collection from my grandmother's generation there was no one left to identify her. She sent the postcard shown above - postmarked October 30, 1910, Camden, New Jersey - to my great uncle, Charles. Given that this is one of many postcards she sent that Halloween and on other special occasions it seems that sending several postcards to the same recipient on the same day was a popular activity. The message:

Dear Friend: Because I have not written do not think I have forgotten you. I am alive and enjoying life. Have just finished breakfast at 4:30 a.m. Kate

Did she have a night on the town? That sounds about right for a friend of Charles who in his day was well-known as quite the party animal in the family.

And speaking of animals here is a poem for the season, written by the literary master of horror and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, and delivered by a master of horror on film, Vincent Price.