Postcards are a reminder of the days when the mail carried messages from abroad, a special trip or maybe just a moment in time. They connected people to a time and place. Often with eye-catching graphics or photographs, the personal text sent to the reader was welcoming, familiar and even exotic. In our age of instant, and constant communication, these small paper ephemera have become relics of the past. What remains are poignant, handwritten messages that were sent through the mail and travelled far and wide to someone special.