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Post by penguy on Mar 11, 2018 0:14:07 GMT
What is the oldest letter you have? I'm not talking about the oldest you have received, from a pen pal ten years ago. Somewhere almost every family has a letter written by a grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather, or family friend. Sometimes they are in a box, or an old suitcase with the family photo of people we are related to but there are no name on them. The letters may be from family left behind in the 'old country', letters from WWI or WW2 or maybe the Civil war, or just family correspondence or perhaps even a love letter.
Mine was written by my Great Grandfather to my grandfather. My Great-grandfather was on jury duty, and the letterhead has an image of the Minneapolis courthouse (which is still standing) and it is written on Office of the Hennepin County Sheriff's letterhead. The letter is dated February 10, 1903. It starts out with 'My Dear Little Boy" and goes on to mention Lincoln's birthday, visiting relatives, and greetings to the family back home.
It looks like it had been written with a dip pen, for you pen people.
I found another letter dated 1946. At the top is a post script telling my father "I think you are a wonderful letter writer. You should write more often.' I wonder if letter writing is inherited!
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Post by mskafka on Mar 12, 2018 6:53:19 GMT
My great-great grandfather wrote a journal addressed to his "readers from the future" (maybe this counts as some sort of correspondence too?). Last year they found it inside a box in my great-aunt's house after she passed away. There's an entry from 1895 where he writes: "Today, Louis Pasteur has left this world". He attached a copy of the day's newspaper with Pasteur's picture. Such a shame that he only wrote during one year.
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Post by penguy on Apr 28, 2020 1:45:19 GMT
The community library and Recreation department here in my community is asking people to write an essay of 500 words or less and submit it by May 4th. The topic is 'COVID-19 and Me'. It seems reassuring that sometime in the future some of the experiences we are having will be saved in tangible form not just, where ever emails and messages go. They even say handwritten entries will be accepted and they become the property of the city and some may be published.
Does anyone else have anything like this happening in their community?
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Post by distractedmom on May 5, 2020 18:26:36 GMT
The community library and Recreation department here in my community is asking people to write an essay of 500 words or less and submit it by May 4th. The topic is 'COVID-19 and Me'. It seems reassuring that sometime in the future some of the experiences we are having will be saved in tangible form not just, where ever emails and messages go. They even say handwritten entries will be accepted and they become the property of the city and some may be published. Does anyone else have anything like this happening in their community? There’s nothing like this going on here in Morton. I like the idea though.
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Post by vertolive on May 17, 2020 0:39:30 GMT
The only remotely pertinent thing I have is a four generation family tree compiled by a forensic geneologist when I received an unexpected inheritance out of Ireland. Nothing personal, but lots of extra info I didn’t have.
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Post by michelleg on Jul 7, 2020 14:36:21 GMT
The community library and Recreation department here in my community is asking people to write an essay of 500 words or less and submit it by May 4th. The topic is 'COVID-19 and Me'. It seems reassuring that sometime in the future some of the experiences we are having will be saved in tangible form not just, where ever emails and messages go. They even say handwritten entries will be accepted and they become the property of the city and some may be published. Does anyone else have anything like this happening in their community? That sounds amazing! I'll have to check with my local community here and suggest it! What a great idea!
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