Pure Love

Love is when the postal services love you so much that they allow you to send mail without stamps! Or maybe that is how it works in Wonderland.

(It was not intentional: the sender just forgot to add the stamps. The envelope, made of a big playing card, arrived safe and sound from the USA, and no further payment was required.)

We Are All Mad Here

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you woldn't have come here."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK), on the New Normal theme. 

Alice in a Meeting

This postcard was sent in July by Bryon (the USA). But, actually, signed by several postcrossers that attended a Postcrossing meeting... Which made it still more interesting!

I had received a different version of this postcard some time ago.

And more Alice: on this envelope from John (the UK), I received a new stamp from a beloved set:

Alice Is Living in My Mailbox (III)

And still more Alices form John (the UK)!

Envelope made of a page or a magazine (or is it wrapping paper?). At first sight, it seemed that the sender had written on the envelope, but it is the design itself. The back:

Two postcards of Alice (among others) inside:

Lewis Carroll's original hand-stitched postage stamp case,
now held in the Macmillan archive.

Endpaper from the first Macmillan Children's edition of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in 1927

(John asked me if I can name all the characters on the postcard. Could you?)


By the way, the envelope arrived inside a plastic bag, with the apologies of Royal Mail. I think everything was ok, but they put the back because the stamp sheet was a bit unstuck.

Alice Is Living in My Mailbox (I)

Or I think so, because of the many times she appears...!

Two gouaches from 1951, by Mary Blair. Sent by Bryon (the USA).

A Manga-ish version sent by Helen (Japan).

An unseen (I mean, by unseen by me) version of Alice's tea sent by Elena (Italy).

Sometimes the White Rabbit appears even on the back of the envelopes...

Wild Letter

Sent to Heleen (the Netherlands).

Alice (II)

Two more postcards of Alice sent by John (the UK):

"Would you tell me pleas," said Alice,
a little timidly,
"why you are painting those roses?"

The Dodo solemnly presented the thimble,
saying "We beg your acceptance of this
elegant thimble".

And one fmore from Laura (the UK), with a illustration of Margaret Tarrant (1888-1959):

Alice succeeded in getting her flamingo's
 body tucked away, comfortably enough, under
her arm, but generally just as
she had got its neck straightened out
it would twist itself round
and look up into her face.

Do You Like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

Postcard sent by John (the UK). Quotation on the back: "It was all very well to say: 'Drink me,' but the wise Alice was not going to do that in a hurry."

This one was also sent by John. It shows a detail of memorial window in Alls Saints' Church (Daresbury, Cheshire, the UK). Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) was born at Daresbury Parsonage in 1832. Another place I need to visit...!

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK). It belongs to this exhibition. How I would have liked to attend it! And I was in Liverpool some months later the same year...

And some stamps from this set issued by Royal Mail on January 6th.

Also a postcard with the same design:

Update 15 March 2016: One more!

Update 25 Sep. 2017:

Update 4 April 2018: I think this is the last one!

My collection of Alice's postcards and stamps.

Carta

I received this collage from Natercia (France).

That amuses me because in my language (Catalan) we use the same word for letter and for playing card: carta. So this is a perfect carta!

Sur le dos d'un éléphant

Collage sent by Rapahel'L (France).

I hope you could appreciate how beautiful this collage is. I am sorry that the picture isn't really good. And... well, it was made exactly sur le dos d'un éléphant (='on the back of an elephant'), because this is the other side:

Alice in Wonderland

I wrote here that Alice was underrepresented in my albums. I wasn't asking for postcards, but two of my friends are kind enough to look for Alice's postcards and stamps for me (even if they aren't very fond of this book).

John (the UK) sent me two postcards with one of the most know chapters of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Mad Tea-Party with The Hatter and The March Hare. It is really nice to have two versions of this illustration!

They arrived with matched stamps depicting Alice and The Hatter (again) and another favourite: the Cheshire Cat.

Heleen (the Netherlands) bought this postcard for me because of the tea cups. Then she realised that here Choo choo looks a lot like Alice:

The funny think is that I thought at first sight that the stamps depict the Queen of Hearts... And then I discovered that they represent the donor-patient relationship, and were issued in honour of 400,000 blood donors in the Netherlands!

All the Alice's pieces of mail in a new album.