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Letters to Santa -
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In the latter part of the eighteen hundreds, children
wrote letters to Santa Claus. By the 1890s
post offices were overrun with letters for Santa each
December. There was great diversity in the correct
spelling o his and where he lived - South or North Pole
- as well as what to do with the letters. Mail clerks
gravely stamped them with a certification that the
addressee could not be found and forwarded them to the
dead letter office in Washington.
But children had faith in the Postal Service and knew
Santa would get their letters. They came from children
from all walks of life. One Christmas Eve,
eight-year-old Edsel Ford, son of Henry and Clara Ford,
and the future president of the Ford Motor Company,
penned his letter in Detroit, Michigan:
Dear Santa Claus:
I Havent Had Any Christmas Tree in 4 Years And I Have
Broken My Trimmings And I Want A Pair of Roller Skates
And A Book, I Cant Think Of Any Thing More. I Want You
To Think O Something More.
Good By.
Edsel Ford
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