In case you can't quite make it out:
From Fred & Ethel
To Jim
Wishing you a very happy Christmas & good New Year
1934
I figure it has to be from the Mertzes. How many Fred & Ethels can there be? In 1934, they would have been 40ish and (I hope) relatively happy.
(Bibliophiles might enjoy a site called the Book Inscription Project that features other inscriptions. Oh, and a tip o' the hat to Susan Hated Literature for that book-inscription link.)
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For the record, on Christmas 1934 William Frawley was 47 and Vivian Vance was 25.
Good God--I had no idea there was that big an age difference.
P.S. I'm interested in old humor, and I have a few old books of it (though none with such a charming inscription). Can you post the table of contents?
And did you know that in the 40s, the BBC banned Wodehouse's lyrics, on the grounds that he was a Nazi collaborator?
I'll e-mail them to you.
And no, I didn't know that. Ack. How seriously was he involved?
According to George Orwell's In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse, he wasn't involved at all, he was just too dim to get what was going on.
Is the book funny?
Fermi: Not so much.
and it's inscribed "To Jim"!
Not to deflate the whoopi cushion here, but you do realize that Fred and Ethel are fictional characters, right?
:D
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