Postcard: portrait orientation, featuring a sepia-coloured photo of a young girl with a basket of flowers; the photo has been touched up with colour so the girl is wearing a blue and white dress, and the flowers are pink, blue and yellow; on the back, in pencil, it reads " France / Dear Mabel / Just a few lines / to you glad to hear that / you are getting along fine / at school + that you like / your teacher + I am getting / along fine myself we are / getting lovely weather here / now + I hope that you are / getting some nice weather as / well. Just take care of / Douglas for me + tell him / Daddy sends him a kiss. with love From Fred xxxxxxxxx"; the postcard does not appear to have been mailed and might have been in a larger letter to Mabel's parents; where it would normally be addressed on the right, it reads "To Mabel / With Love From / Fred give Dad / + Mamma a kiss / for Fred xxxxxxxxx".