Delicate white narcissus blooms rendered in soft chromolithographic washes float against an ivory ground in this understated, quietly beautiful Easter greeting — a world away from the gilt-and-emboss excess of many Edwardian holiday cards. The artist has captured the papery translucence of narcissus petals with unusual subtlety, the yellow coronas glowing warmly against cool white tepals and grey-green buds, with a confident botanical naturalism that suggests a trained illustrator rather than a jobbing commercial artist. Embossed script in the lower left reads Happy Easter-Tide. On the reverse, cousin Sarah writes to Hannah in Warwick, Orange County, New York with a letter-in-miniature: "Joe has been very sick and Ed fell and broke his ankle — we have had our hands full for some time I can assure you, love to all." This tiny domestic drama, inked onto the correspondence half of a "Printed in Germany" divided-back card with a 1¢ Washington stamp, is the kind of unfiltered family record that makes old postcards irreplaceable social documents.