Valentine Card
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: This is a Valentine card that belonged to a member of the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th century. Both sides of the card have rhyming couplets of verse professing love.
label: Description
content: Side One: Even so my heart with lovesick pain/Sore wounded is and broken twain/That heart that you do none behold/Will break when you these lines unfold.
label: Description
content: Side Two: To say that I falselines have pen’d/No power of envy can pretend/I write the passions of my love/On the outside sweet turtle love.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
label: place owned
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006857.02
label: accession number
content: 28810
label: catalog number
content: 6857.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: valentine
label: Other Terms
content: Sheet; Manuscript
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/16 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in; .15875 cm x 8.89 cm x 9.2075 cm