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Love is in the Air

Memories shared by Wallmasters International members

“Forget me not!
I ask of thee
Reserve one spot

In your heart for
me.”

Contributed by
Theresa Roth by

way of her sister-
in-law Nancy

Contributed by Cleon Cox, DTM— Roth, Cornwall,
My Great grandfather drew and wrote this England—
card back in 1898. This Valentine
card was sent in 1917 by the boy

“A place in thy memory dearest, who would become my father to the girl who would
Is all that I claim. (18 1/2 years later) become my mother. I’m now 73. So
To pause and listen when thou hearest, the Valentine is actually getting on a bit -- 105 years!
The sound of my name. The card is a very clear declaration of love. More

G.W.G.Jackson 10/21/98(1898) than a century old now, it speaks of durability, even
timelessness. To me, at least, its status as a commercial

George William Gresley Jackson was but product in no way diminishes that mystery: it rather
18 years old. He subsequently married implies that love is infinitely durable, infinitely

Lucille W. Daughterman of San Francisco, adaptable, perfectly particular, and at the same time,
CA in 1899. the same for us all.

Contributed by Rodger Cook, DTM—
This “Anniversary” ring was a present given to my wife’s mother’s great grandmother

by her husband. They lived in Minnesota. While he was on a business trip,
in San Francisco, he wrote his wife a letter that says, “… will bring you
back something that will make your eyes shine.” The original letter,
of August 24, 1906, and the ring has been passed down to the first-

born daughter of subsequent generations.

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