“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I think both numbers in the data, 1942 and 1963, are year numbers. Jane knows nothing about the filing system at my place of employment, Artistic Greetings. Catalog numbers are not usually year numbers.

(The above is a good generalized description of a certain type of card produced by Artistic. Jane has seen cards like this of course. I still had no specific recollection of the kind I wanted.

(This process goes on all the time at Artistic, as it does at most such greeting card firms.)

It is now in a file. Some narrow metal rectangular compartment, apart from others of its kind, and there is a connection with the artist here. That is, it has been kept aside because of something having to do with the artist.

(This is possible, although offhand I don’t know of any such separate file in my department at Artistic. The file could be in another office however. Perhaps I can check without being obvious about it.

(Again, this is a good description of a certain type of card produced at Artistic. I dislike them.)

(I work all day Friday at Artistic, the rest of the week mornings only. This has been the routine for the last year and three-quarters or so. Before that I worked full time there. Seth did not specify a Friday afternoon above however, even while stressing an afternoon. If I removed the ribbon on any other afternoon of the week, this would push the time back toward the 1963 given earlier in the material.)

(This too is possible. Due to a reorganization at the first of the year Artistic discontinued several lines of cards and sold the film libraries involved to other publishers.)

A connection with Connecticut. The firm or the artist, I do not know.

(Again, possible. Before the reorganization this year Artistic dealt with many artists and firms in the northeastern states, including New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It still does to some extent. Jane did not know this. Without the card from which the envelope object was taken however, I cannot track down any specific artist or company.)

(Seth refers to a young artist I work with. I am not sure just when Curt joined Artistic, except that it was probably after 1963. But not much after. If the card in question was revamped in 1963 it is possible that Curt might have handled it as one of his first jobs.