Another good one.
Careful. You might get “flamed” by over the Smallville one.
And, in the two by Richard Sheridan I loved the older images of old “St. Nick”, as he must have appeared before we became so over-commercialized.
Thanks, Wuli. I am so very glad you liked it. As for the other, it's inevitable.
The Richard Sheridan was SO exciting. My cousin has Henry Livingston's original music manuscript book and, along with all the other original documents, allowed me to scan everything. With my husband's help in getting the program up and going, I started transcribing the whole book into the music program Mozart. Note by note! And I started noticing how many of the songs were from that opera. So I found an original score and bought that from England. Then I started transcribing that, which had a LOT more notes to put into the program, thousands of notes by thousands of notes. A retired music professor in NY taught me how to correct the inevitable mistakes (non-musician, here) and I taught her how to put her pieces into Mozart. I made a CD of all of Henry's songs and I used to play them on infinite repeat while I drove. So exciting to actually hear the songs of that time.
The cards I was collecting without originally knowing what I was going to do with them. And I still can't find hundreds of them that I put away for safety. I used very few of the Santa cards in my book on Henry's poetry, but do have in mind another book to do on Henry's Jan 1 Carrier Addresses, and THAT'S where I'd use the Santa postcards. But this year has all been oral surgeries and I wasn't up to the new book, so it will have to wait for next year.
The Carrier Addresses are incredibly exciting because when I was searching for our new poetry research, I found a bunch of poems I hadn't found before that are statistically showing up as Henry's. And one of them - I was SCREAMING on the keyboard to Mac in New Zealand - uses a night figure that awakens the narrator, but it's a Frenchman who appears as a nightmare figure. But STILL!
Music Manuscript
The Duenna by Richard Sheridan