From Cooing to Tweeting. How things change. Next is X. AcknowledgementsPostcard 1The Carrier Pigeon (1835)After Daniel Maclise RA (1806 – 1870)Engraving attributed to William Henry EgletonFrom Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (ed.),Heath’s Book of Beauty, London, 1835 Postcard 2Outline of girl from Pexels photo-mizunokozuki-13431657; Postcard photo by Jude Tulloch