V-Mail Letter
Object Details
- Description
- V-mail stationery with pre-printed messages co-existed with the traditional handwritten or typed personal correspondence sent by V-mail or by traditional mail. Pre-printed messages like this were quick to send and filled the void for correspondents who had no real news but wanted to relay that they were alive and thinking of the other person. Verse reads:
- Altho I've Felt The Warmth Of Your Love
- In More Than A Place Or Two
- I'm Ever So Glad That When Moms Were Picked
- Mine Turned Out To Be You!
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- Sent: April 18, 1945
- Object number
- 1993.2064.2.2
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper (photo-sensitive)
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (13.3 x 10.8 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Record ID
- npm_1993.2064.2.2
- Usage
- CC0
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