Birthday greeting in Swedish verse to "Lovis Johansson" (Johanna Louisa Johannson, later Nygren) on her birthday, 8 July 1888, signed "Din tillgifna Amanda" (your devoted Amanda). The transcription includes an English translation. Photocopy with a typed note.

[p. 1. A folded greeting card with a printed flower border, photocopied open. Typed note below, unsigned:] This is a Birthday greeting in verse for your Grandma Nygren. They were really sweet but very hard to translate. The verses are very flowery and pretty but I won't try to translate them as they die off doing so. It must have been a very good friend of your Grandma Nygren who wrote it. I know her name was Louise - and it is spelled as we spell it in Swedish. I think it has kept wonderfully since July 8, 1888.

[Cover, handwritten:] Hjertlig gratulation åt Lovis Johansson på födelsedagen den 8/7 88

Den dagen som du firar Ett ädelt minne är Och värdet af det minne Jag i mitt hjerta bär.

[p. 2. Inside, handwritten in two columns:] Flicka denna dag som randas, Är för dig en högtidsdag, Minnet af då först du andats Och först fick skåda Herrens dag

Måtte sällt din tid förrinna Sorgen alldrig nå din stig Och må detta blad påminna Om en vän som minnes dig.

Ack lef så sällt som mitt hjerta önskar, Njut lyckans frid och helsans ljufva lott, Må lifvets blommor på din bana grönska, Och fridens ängel sända dig allt godt.

Till slut får jag dig önska, [Ja?] helsa med allt annat godt, [Ja?] att din framtids väg må grönska Och liljan blifva här din lott.

Din tillgifna Amanda.

[p. 3: a second photocopy of the cover and typed note, sideways.]

[English translation] Heartfelt congratulations to Lovis Johansson on her birthday, 8 July 1888.

The day that you celebrate is a noble memory, and the worth of that memory I carry in my heart.

Girl, this day now dawning is for you a festal day, the memory of when you first drew breath and first beheld the Lord's day.

May your time pass happily, may sorrow never reach your path, and may this leaf remind you of a friend who remembers you.

Oh, live as happily as my heart wishes; enjoy the peace of good fortune and the sweet lot of health; may life's flowers grow green along your way, and the angel of peace send you every good thing.

At last I may wish you health with every other good thing, that your future road may grow green and the lily be your lot here.

Your devoted Amanda.