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A postcard bearing a message in L.M. Montgomery's handwriting addressed to "Mr. Geo. B. MacMillan". George Boyd MacMillan (1881-1953) was a Scottish journalist and writer, and a favourite correspondent of L.M. Montgomery. The two were first introduced, by letter, in 1903, through an American writer who was developing a circle of literary pen friends. Although Montgomery and MacMillan only met briefly in-person, during her 1911 honeymoon in Scotland, their voluminous exchange of letters, postcards, and gifts continued until late 1941, just months before Montgomery's death.
PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: "Dear Mr. McMillan. Some time ago you asked me for another copy of 'Fate.' Mine has turned up so I enclose a copy of it. If we 'live in deeds not - years, in feelings not - in figures on a dial,' the world is many centuries older than when I wrote you. I can never forget the agony of the first re-ports of the naval battle. L.M.M."