This postcard with directions to a book club meeting was found in a Modern Library edition of the book being discussed, Light in August by William Faulkner. The postmark doesn’t have a date, but four-cent postcards were used between 1963-1967.

The word “Roux ‘Fanciful’” is written on the card in pencil. I thought perhaps someone had jotted down the author and title of the next book the group was going to read at the meeting. I imagined a book called Fanciful by Jean-Claude Roux or something along those lines. But it turns out that Roux Fanciful is a brand of hair color. (The other pencilled in words — “#52 White Minx” — could have given me a clue.) As with many contemporary book club meetings, the discussion strayed off topic.