West Rock's sheer 410-foot basalt face blazes in reddish-orange above a sweeping green park in this linen-era postcard of New Haven, Connecticut — a geological landmark so dramatic it sheltered two regicide judges fleeing Charles II in 1661, hiding in the cave at its base that the reverse text proudly calls "Judges' Cave," now marked by a bronze tablet from the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars. The card is densely written on the back in pencil and ink, a long chatty letter to a Mrs. Harry Conway of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, opening with "Greetings, Ellen" and overflowing into the margins with news of work, illness, neighbors, and Wallace — a vivid slice of mid-century New England correspondence. A "Buy U.S. Savings Bonds" slogan cancel frames the 1¢ Franklin stamp, placing the mailing in the wartime or immediate postwar era.