The early weeks of December often bring a welcome variety to one’s mailbox: Christmas cards. These envelopes, a nice respite from the usual junk mail and bills, reflect a long-held tradition of exchanging postal pleasantries at Christmastime. The Weeks family, who built Salisbury House in the 1920s, kept this custom as well. Our collections here at the museum contain a few samples of the Weekses’ own Christmas cards, and other cards and holiday greetings penned by well-known artists and writers of the twentieth century.
