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<p>[QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 410728, member: 157"]My sister visited yesterday and brought me down 8 bins of "stuff" from my parents house. I have a lot to go through. One of the most interesting things was a large box of letters that my great aunt had saved. She was bed-ridden for 50 + years from the flu outbreak in the 30's. she spent her time writing letters to pretty much everybody in the news during those years. I went through the first bundle last night.....It includes signed letters from Carol Burnett, Edward G robinson, albert Einstein, Cardinal Spelling, Joan Crawford, Red Skelton, Harry Truman and others. It also includes about 150 from the royal families of England, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. She sent them all birthday cards, and the such for all important family events (Birthdays, Deaths, Birth's , marriages etc....). Of course all were signed by Ladies-in-Waiting, but interesting none the less. I have about 500 to go through. They are all in original envelopes, with associated newspaper clippings attached. A very interesting treasure trove to say the least. One of the more amusing, was a letter from the Queen (England) thanking her for the gift of Crème Perfume she sent for the silver Jubilee![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 410728, member: 157"]My sister visited yesterday and brought me down 8 bins of "stuff" from my parents house. I have a lot to go through. One of the most interesting things was a large box of letters that my great aunt had saved. She was bed-ridden for 50 + years from the flu outbreak in the 30's. she spent her time writing letters to pretty much everybody in the news during those years. I went through the first bundle last night.....It includes signed letters from Carol Burnett, Edward G robinson, albert Einstein, Cardinal Spelling, Joan Crawford, Red Skelton, Harry Truman and others. It also includes about 150 from the royal families of England, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. She sent them all birthday cards, and the such for all important family events (Birthdays, Deaths, Birth's , marriages etc....). Of course all were signed by Ladies-in-Waiting, but interesting none the less. I have about 500 to go through. They are all in original envelopes, with associated newspaper clippings attached. A very interesting treasure trove to say the least. One of the more amusing, was a letter from the Queen (England) thanking her for the gift of Crème Perfume she sent for the silver Jubilee![/QUOTE]
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