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Letters to Old Santa Claus Children’s Christmas Wish List
A long, blocky collection of letters from children describing Christmas requests. Many ask for dolls, toy guns, skates, balls, a piano, and candy, fruit, nuts, oranges, and fireworks, with mentions of family members and hometowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Satta
Santa
Little Brother
Ernest Lawrence
Dearwood Butler
Hertline’s
Myrtle Montgomery
St. Mary's Pike
Emma
Lydia Wharton
Mr.Santa Claus
Nine Waters
Cemetery Hill
Hamilton Barber
William Baker
Roy
Mardin
Joe Conway
John A. Tong
Hertlein
Santa Taus
Robert Stiles
Sister
Rosser McClure
Gilbert Thompson
Lebanon Pike
Robert Boone
Etta Thompson
Ted
Grundy Mayes
Frank Thompson
Mary Wharton
Ethel Berry
Santa Clius
Garland Wharton
Sis
Jail Street
Nannié Catlett
Depot Street
Margret Berry
Edward
Brother Edward
Edna Miller
J. B. Ryans
East Main
Ari
Will
C. Carl Kelley
Lee Kelley
Lillian McCabe
Francis
Mama
Papa
Florence McIntire
Grandpa
Valley Hill
Robert
Vivian
Bradley Tatuin
Sante Claus
Eten