I have a small collection of early 20th Century medical books. This postcard was in a copy of ‘The Story Of A Surgeon’, and autobiography of Sir John Bland-Sutton, a prominent surgeon in the 1910s-1920s in London. Whenever I find something in one of my books, I try to find out as much as I can about the previous owner.
My copy was published in 1930s, I bought it from a second hand bookshop here in England, but I can’t even work out the date from the stamp.
Looking for any information at all that you can tell me about it!
This is Tellskapelle, a famous place in the history of William Tell and his legend in creating Switzerland. It is on Lake Lucerne in canton Uri. It is the supposed site where he landed after he escaped from his captors and started the rebellion to form the Old Confederation. The chapel is still there today
The person writing the postcard is a member of a “Frauenverein” a sort of ladies club who gang up to make sure their husbands don’t stay too late at the pub.
The ladies gang had an outing that fell through (I think) and so she ended up going on a trip by this chapel.
The person receiving the postcard is her daughter, a young lady (“Fraulein” is an antiquated term for Miss) called Lina attending an international school in England. Those were well-off, good standing people. Still familiar enough to use the cute diminutive “Linali”.
But formal enough to sign “Mother” and some other women called Rösli.
Liebes Linali,
Unser Frauenverein fiel ins Wasser. Als Ersatz sind wir jetzt hier gelandet. Viele herzliche Grüsse senden Dir Mutter und Rösly
Dear Lina (in swiss diminutive)
Our womens club has been canceled. Instead we now ended up here. Best greetings from mother and Rösly
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I have a small collection of early 20th Century medical books. This postcard was in a copy of ‘The Story Of A Surgeon’, and autobiography of Sir John Bland-Sutton, a prominent surgeon in the 1910s-1920s in London. Whenever I find something in one of my books, I try to find out as much as I can about the previous owner.
My copy was published in 1930s, I bought it from a second hand bookshop here in England, but I can’t even work out the date from the stamp.
Looking for any information at all that you can tell me about it!
This is Tellskapelle, a famous place in the history of William Tell and his legend in creating Switzerland. It is on Lake Lucerne in canton Uri. It is the supposed site where he landed after he escaped from his captors and started the rebellion to form the Old Confederation. The chapel is still there today
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellskapelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellskapelle)
The post mark is from Weggis which is a town on the north shore of Lake Lucerne. It is where one would go to take the cog train up Rigi.
And here is a map link.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tellskapelle/@46.9326516,8.6118221,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x167b55834e221f7c!8m2!3d46.9326516!4d8.6118221
The person writing the postcard is a member of a “Frauenverein” a sort of ladies club who gang up to make sure their husbands don’t stay too late at the pub.
The ladies gang had an outing that fell through (I think) and so she ended up going on a trip by this chapel.
The person receiving the postcard is her daughter, a young lady (“Fraulein” is an antiquated term for Miss) called Lina attending an international school in England. Those were well-off, good standing people. Still familiar enough to use the cute diminutive “Linali”.
But formal enough to sign “Mother” and some other women called Rösli.
Liebes Linali,
Unser Frauenverein fiel ins Wasser. Als Ersatz sind wir jetzt hier gelandet. Viele herzliche Grüsse senden Dir Mutter und Rösly
Dear Lina (in swiss diminutive)
Our womens club has been canceled. Instead we now ended up here. Best greetings from mother and Rösly