Oldest American dolls and a sassafras leaf quiz
A reader asks when dolls arrived in America and notes Letitia Penn as the oldest American doll, reportedly brought from England to Philadelphia by William Penn in 1699. The sassafras tree is identified for its three leaf shapes on a single twig.
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