The handmade business and Valentines cards

The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain and in 1847. Esther Howland received an ornate English Valentine from a business associate of her father. She then began to create and market her own brand of Valentines Day greeting cards in the U.S. from her home in Worcester, Mass. Esther's  brother took samples of her cards on a sales trip and