Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway y El Floridita
Cuba

This is a 'fold open and close' postcard.  It is mailed from Cuba in 2016.  The picture below shows you what the card looks like when it is open.

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El Floridita is a historic fish restaurant and cocktail bar in the older part of Havana (La Habana Vieja), Cuba.  It is famous for its daiquiris and for having been one of the favourite hangouts of Ernest Hemingway while he was in Havana.

Shakespeare Has Not Written Lately

So I haven't written much lately!

So what?
Neither has Shakespeare
2009

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
Author of Little Women
Orchard House, Concord, Massachusetts

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Mark Twain

National Post Card Week
May 2-8, 2010

A Tribute to the Year of Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

100th Anniversary of his death
125th anniversary of the publication of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
175th Anniversary of his birth

Mark Twain and Halley's Comet
"I came in with Halley's comet in 1835.  It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it.  It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet.  the Almighty has said,no doubt: "now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together -, they must go out together." - Mark Twain

Halley's Comet, visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years, put on bright shows in both 1835 and 1910.  It was visible at the time of Mark Twain's birth, and the perihelion (the point at which the comet is closest to the sun and the brightest) in 1910 was April 20, the day before Mark Twain died.

limited edition: No. 51 of 100

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910).
Photographer Unidentified

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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (known in the West as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction.

Gravestone of William Shakespeare

The Grave of the Poet
William Shakespeare
1564 - 1616
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon

The curse set in stone upon the grave of William Shakespeare

Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare,
To digg the dvst encloased heare.
Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones,
And cvrst be he yt moves my bones.

Modern spelling:
"Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,"
"To dig the dust enclosed here."
"Blessed be the man that spares these stones,"
"And cursed be he who moves my bones."

postmarked in 2011 with a great Britain stamp