March 15, 1910 A

March 15, 1910 A

Bermuda. "Frascati Hotel" Flatts.

Notes: Notes: You can see shutters propped open in the windows of the building in the foreground. The card would have had to be written prior to 1912. By the summer of 1912, Jennie, her father (Charles Nelson Cotton) and her son (Nelson Olney Dunham) were all living in the same household on the Madaket Road in Nantucket. The stamp (SG36, Stanley Gibbons; Sc35, Scott catalogue) was printed between 1906 -1909. A very faint postmark seems to read that the card was sent on the 15th of March. A passenger manifest for the S.S. Arcadian shows Fred and Grace departing Hamilton, Bermuda on March 12, 1910. This is the first of a number of cards that are tied to Grace (Lyon) Hallworth. Grace Lyon was Jennie's childhood friend. They had both grown up in Pawtucket, R.I. In those early days Grace signed a small autograph book that Jennie circulated among her family and friends. Grace and Frederick had a single child, Carey. Beyond their exchanges of cards there is at least one other written confirmation of their friendship. There is a 'Personal' note in the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror of September 5, 1914 that reads: "Mrs. Frederick Hallworth, of Longmeadow, R.I. was the guest of Mrs. Jennie Dunham, Madaket road, last week."