High above the crowds swarming Trafalgar Square, Nelson surveys his city from atop a 170-foot column — and this crisp mid-century real-photograph postcard captures the full panorama: the fountains mid-splash, the National Gallery's neoclassical portico behind, St. Martin-in-the-Fields to the right, and the post-war London skyline punctuated by a lone modernist office block still conspicuous among the Georgian rooftops. The writer — who signs off warmly as "M" — dashed off a chatty note to a Mrs. Helyar at 12 Johnsons Close, Carshalton, Surrey, describing an arrival at Victoria, a cup of tea at Uncle's, and a Sunday outing, adding that she'd "rather wait until James is older" before another such trip. The card was printed in France and published by Lansdowne Publishing Co. Ltd., London, franked with a red 2½d Wilding definitive of Queen Elizabeth II.