Dennis Wheatley’s Christmas cards through the decades

To enliven the Christmas period, here is a selection of Christmas cards and other festive material sent out by Dennis Wheatley.

Thanks to Steve Whatley for his help in compiling the material.

If you know of the whereabouts of any others, please let us know and we will aim to add them to the display next year all being well.

Best wishes for a Happy Christmas!

1932


Nash's 'Pall Mall' magazine for January 1933 (on sale in December 1932) The inscription reads 'This is our Christmas card this year - see pages 42 - & 116 - First Blood! With every good wish from us both. Dennis & Joan'
Source: Humphreys collection

1933
An early proof of the card

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The finished article (see if you can spot the differences!)

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1935

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A 1935 calendar
Provenance : Reproduced with the permission of Special Collections, Leeds University Library (MS 1942)

And also, for 1935/6, a seasonal calendar

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1936

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1937
And also a seasonal calendar for 1937

We currently lack a copy of DW’s Christmas card for 1937, but this is a description of the card taken from The Liverpool Echo’s ‘Echoes and Gossip of the Day’ column of Tuesday 21st December 1937:

Say it in ...

These Christmas greetings all appear on the card sent out by Eve Chaucer and Dennis Wheatley, the novelists, in the form of a radio power transmitter. Eve Chaucer is Mrs. Dennis Wheatley.

French, Bon Noel; Danish, Glaedelig Jul; Italian, Buon Natale; Dutch, Gelukkig Kerstmis; Finnish, Hauskaa Joulua; Portuguese, Boas festas do Natal; Hungarian, Boldog Karacsonyi unnepeket; German, Herzlichste Weinachtsgrusse; Britain, Merry Christmas; Swedish, Lyclig Jul; Rumanian, Fericit Craciunul; Serbian, Sretcan Bozic; Czech, Vesele Vanoce; Norwegian, Gledelig Jul; Polish, Serdeczne zycrema wesodych swiat; Spanish, Buenas Pasquas de Navidad.

The Russian and Armenian greetings are given, but are a bit beyond our reproduction.