We all like to scan old letters.  Here's one I came across not long ago.

"Boston, Jan. 1, 1845.

Dear Father --
I wish you and mother and all my friends a Happy New Year.  I will take it in a dividend from the Boston and Maine Rail Road if you will be kind enough to sign this order. Yours, &c, Charles F. . . . . "

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
August 24, 1935

 Posted December 8, 1999  

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