Format: Process screen and letterpress, postcard format, addressed to “Miss Ria Henley, Richmond, Milawa, via Wangaratta” in ink, with stamp and postmark dated “May 27, 1905”, annotated in ink and initialled “L.L.” verso, 8.9 x 13.3cm.
Annotation reads “Liz & I saw Miss G—[Vida Goldstein] on today re papers. Apologies for not attending to yours sooner but very busy at present. Lecture Monday we are all going. Will write soon & tell you all about it. All send love to all. Yr affec. friend, L. L., 26/3/05.”
This note is feasibly from Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), Australian writer, suffragist, feminist, and mother of Henry Lawson, on a postcard promoting the Women’s Political Association of Victoria and Miss Vida Goldstein, president.
Ria Henley’s name appears a number of times in Woman Voter newspaper as a donor to the £1000 fund towards the candidature of Vita Goldstein, and in a letter to the editor regarding the Women’s Political Association. Ref: Trove.
Creases, minor chips to edges.
