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Unused Valentine & Sons card in an oval "frame".

Valentine & Sons oval mountain card, with the first section of a long letter across the entire back: "Brooks, Alta., Mon. Feb 12/12, My Dear Lu, Have just arrived here 3 p.m. + left Glen Avon Saturday midnight, arriving in REgina about 5 in the morning. I made my way to T. Cox about 9 + stayed with him till I left that night at one a.m. so you see I had a 14 hour train ride, covering a distance of 374 miles. I tell you I feel pretty tough, two nights without ..."

Unused card in the oval-textured series by Valentine & Sons. No number visible. Prof. Goldwin Smith was a great English Victorian intellectual who was famous worldwide and considered (as a Toronto resident) a great adornment to the status of Toronto at the time. The Grange is now part of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Unused card showing the Toronto Normal School. Valentine & Sons but the number of the image is not visible.

Unused Valentine & Sons card of Queen's Park. A premium style of card, with especially rich colouring, textured paper and the oval shape. No Valentine & Sons number visible.

Valentine & Sons card no. 101,825, posted March 11, 1907 at Hamilton to M. E. Nash, 129 Victoria Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The letter reads: "222 Charlton Ave. W., Hamilton, Ont. Canada. Dear Eadie, just a line to let you know we have changed our address once again + Sam is not going to bother about the club again as he has bought a house so he does not think he will ever live in England again, will write again soon as I am coming how. Love to all believe me. Your sincerely friend, M. E. T."

Letter sent to Miss E. R. Bush, High Croft, Nr. Frome, Somerset, England: "Aug. 29th. Hello Rosalie - Just a thought from Canada. How goes the world with you? I went this trip the first Summer I spent in Canada. It is grand. Have just returned home from a little holiday. Accept my love for Auld Lang Syne. My days are busy ones. Full up with all sorts of interest. Ambulance work to the fore now. Yours etc. M. Millard, 11 Poplar Plains, Toronto." (I can see about where that is out the window -- the card has come almost full circle after spending 101 years in England!) It is Valentine & Sons no. 101,731 and was posted at Toronto on August 30, 1912.

"This bridge divides Canada from the United States of America. It was this bridge that caused the Battle of Lundy Lane to be fought between USA & Great Britain. The Americans retiring after the battle. A monument is erected close by in Lundy Lane cemetery in rememberance [sic] of the men who fell in the battle." (written across entire back). This card is Valentine & Sons no. 108,052.

Addressed to Miss M. Kinnell, 7 Gillespie Place, Edinburgh, Scotland and posted at Hamilton, Ont., on September 23, 1907. "Your cards are certainly the nicest views I get anywhere, must be a beautiful country all right enough. The rapids shown in this view here are very fierce, boil + roar, and kick up quite a racket. A man was mad enough some years ago to try + swim them but that was his "finish". Sincerely, EBT." Valentine & Sons no. 100,843. Note the admonition on the front of the card to "just pass by" the writer's North American slang.

Postmarked at Brantford, August 17, 1907, a Valentine & Sons undivided back card with the 100,000 series number cut off at lower right. Published for the Canada Railway News Co., Ltd., Toronto and addressed to Miss E. Niven, 16 Wellington St., Greenock, Scotland R. G.

Valentine & Sons divided-back card no. 100,075, mailed at Montreal on February 15, 1906. Addressed to Miss Seymour, 20 Manchester Square, London W., England with the message: "D. S. Just a P.C. hope you are well we are all fine having lots of snow yesterday and to day hoping to see you soon. Best regards to all. Yours T. P. M. (??), From Montreal."

Valentine & Sons card no. 600,284, addressed to Miss L. Rayner, 180 Beaconsfield Rd., Norwich, Norfolk, England. No message and not mailed.