Homemade Christmas card to 'Gam and Puck' from Puck

Interior spread of a homemade Christmas card. The right leaf bears a pasted yellow-and-red ‘Merry Christmas’ printed banner with holly sprigs, beneath which ‘To’ and ‘GAM AND PU[C]K’ are formed of stick-on metallic letters (gold and silver letters spelling out ‘GAM AND PU’ then ‘CK’ wrapping to the next line), and ‘from Puck’ written below in pencil. The left leaf is blank but shows shadowy bleed-through from the star-and-foil design on the facing leaf (compare page 380). ‘Gam’ was likely the family nickname for the compiler Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker); ‘Puck’ is presumably the child sender, who may also be the ‘Puck’ addressed in the salutation. No additional marginalia.

The recipient line is laid out in two rows of stick-on metallic letters: “GAM AND PU” on the first row, with the final “CK” running over onto a second row. “Gam” was likely the family nickname for Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker); the second name “Puck” appears both as recipient and sender, suggesting either a self-jokey signature by a child named Puck or a household nickname shared between adult and child.