From John W. Maslin (nephew)
My grandmother, and Stanley Owens Foster’s mother, Ann Daggett Foster, was many things including an artist. She created a series of Christmas cards between her marriage and the premature death of my grandfather, Abbott Burke Foster, in 1943. My grandmother called the series “Being a Record of the Christmas Greetings of the House of Foster”. We are blessed to still have my grandmother’s original artwork and sample printed cards. One of my favorites is from 1940. In addition to the car and my grandfather’s hat, the unique thing about this one is that each member of the family of four signed it.
From left to right seated in car: Stanley Owens Foster, Joann Foster Maslin, Ann Daggett Foster, and Abbott Burke Foster.
I am working on a picture book of these cards to share will Foster/Maslin cousins. I am hopeful it will be picked up for publishing by TORTOISE SHELL BOOKS, the current family publishing house.
So lovely. And I’m also noting that Stanley Foster‘s handwriting pretty much went downhill from 1940 forward.