December 18, 1913
Dear Santa Claus: I have just finished my milking and night work. I want to tell you what I want for Xmas. I want a pair of ice skates, a new suit, a sled, a cap and oranges, bananas, nuts and candy. Please don’t forget my sister and brother and don’t forget my teacher, Miss Montague. Your little friend, MARVIN B. BLACKBURN
Dear Santa: I will tell you what I want for Christmas. I want some little chairs and a little table with them. I want a pastry set and some little tin dishes, a sewing set, a little piano and a little lamp and some games. With love, NELL BARNDS
December 20, 1923
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 6-years old; I go to Jester to school, I am in the first grade; please Santa bring me a bee bee gun, a coaster, a wagon with a brake on it, a ball and a bat, some candy, nuts and oranges. Please Santa come to see my grandma, grandpa and daddy. Your little friend, ROBERT RAWLINGS
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 6-years-old and have a little sister, Dorothy, 4-years-old; we would like for you to bring us each a big doll, sewing basket, little broom and lots of story books. From your little friends, VIRGINIA AND DOROTHY CARPENTER
December 12, 1933
Dear Santa Claus: I want a little car for a boy eight years old, a toy typewriter, a tool chest large, a real small violin that will play, and a policeman suit, and a Lotto and Keno, and an electric train, and a box building logs and a sled large. ROY TWILLING
Dear Santa: I am a little girl six years old. If you have enough toys to go around please give me a doll buggy, a set of dishes, a bank, a stove, that is all I can think of just now. If you have something else for me, you may leave it. Thank you dear old Santa Claus. BETTY JANE WRIGHT P.S. I am a good girl.
Historic Letters to Santa Claus were compiled by Marshall Public Library’s Local History/Genealogy staff member Andrea Hatfield from past issues of the Democrat-News on microfilm.
