The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"15, Lennox Road. Dear A, If you come tomorrow will you please bring Eno's Fruit Salts and the cocoa. I suppose you will come if it's fine. What a lovely day you have had today. I went up West on Saturday with Hilda and we went to Rose & Jenny on Sunday. Wasn't it a shocking day? If you don't come up on Wednesday I will come down to tea & stop the night, then we might go to the dressmakers. Please measure the length of that white woollen coat. We are going to Weatherleys on Saturday. Love & kisses, Lil."
The Return of Peter Grimm
So what else happened on the day that Lil posted the card?
well, on the 18th. October 1911, The Return of Peter Grimm, starring David Warfield, was presented for the first time, at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway.
Alfred Binet
The day also marked the death in Paris at the age of 54 of Alfred Binet.
Alfred, who was born in 1857, was a French psychologist and the inventor of the first reliable intelligence test, now referred to as the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales.
Alfred's main area of interest was the education of schoolchildren, in particular the identification of those who required extra assistance with the curriculum.
Modern intelligence tests owe much to his pioneering work, and for this reason he is frequently described as being among the most important of all psychologists.
Binet also made some studies of human sexuality, devising the term “erotic fetishism.”
Victor Perez
The 18th. October 1911 also marked the birth in Tunis of the French Tunisian Jewish boxer Victor Perez.
Victor was the world flyweight champion 1931-32. He died after being sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1945.
On the 21st. September 1943, after being denounced by an acquaintance, Perez was arrested in Paris by the Milice Francaise, a French collaborationist paramilitary force of the Vichy Regime.
He was detained in the Drancy internment camp in France before being transported to the German extermination camp of Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz subcamp to serve as a slave laborer for I.G. Farben at the Buna-Werke.
During his transport to Auschwitz on 7 October 1943, Victor became part of "Transport 60," a group of 1,000 prisoners shipped from Drancy.
During his internment, he was forced to participate in boxing matches for the amusement of the German guards and officers. By 1945, Perez was one of just 31 survivors of the original 1,000.
To escape from the Russians rapidly advancing on German held territory, the Nazis abandoned Auschwitz in January 1945. On the 18th. January 1945, Perez became one of the prisoners on the death march from Monowitz in Poland, 37 miles (60 km) Northwest to the Gleiwitz concentration camp near the Czech border.
Perez was reported to have been murdered three days later on the 21st. January. According to eye witness testimony he was shot to death by a guard while attempting to distribute bread he had found in Gleiwitz's kitchen to other starving prisoners.
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