From the sun-drenched Ligurian harbor of San Remo in December 1897, a tall-masted sailing vessel dominates the foreground, its rigging a lacework of lines against the hillside town climbing behind — and across every inch of the pictorial surface, a hand has written in urgent, looping German script, filling the sky, the sea, and the margins with what appears to be a personal letter to Jenny in Berlin. This is one of the earliest surviving picture postcards from the Italian Riviera: an undivided-back Cartolina Postale from the pioneering years of the postcard format, when senders had no dedicated message space and wrote directly over the image. Mailed 7 December 1897 from San Remo, it bears an Italian 10-centeime stamp (King Umberto I definitive), was processed through the Berlin poste restante ("Bestellt vom Postamte 40, 7/12.97"), and addressed to Jenny at Lehterstr. 48c, Berlin — a complete, fully-travelled artifact of the Victorian postcard's infancy, with a romantic maritime image and a story written in ink across its face.