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Dear Santa Claus letters from Arkansas children
A collection of handwritten holiday requests from young readers in Arkansas towns like Guernsey, Washington, Hope, Petre, and Patmos. Children ask for toys such as airplanes, dolls, doll beds, scooters, and blocks, plus fruit, nuts, candy, dishes, a broom, slippers, gloves, a pen, and a comic assortment of gifts. notes mention siblings, schooling, and a bedridden teacher.
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Alittle
Sears
Guernsey
Norma Jean Allen
Washington
Arkanas
Santa Claus
Arkansas
Santa
Robert
Charles William Gilbert
Jenny Sue Moore
Hope
John Let Stewart
Claus
Tama
Estelle Haltom
Miss Moses