Show 0 tit j ii LETTERS TO SANTA v CLAUS GLAUS l f H Salt Lake City Utah C d f December 1 th 1907 ot Dear St St. Nicholas Nicholas- I I would like a drum and a book and a gun and a cocoanut and some skates and a flexible flyer and a pair of house slippers and a toy fire department and three games and some chocolates and nd two pairs of mittens and a bird R I But if you cant can't bring those things that I have mentioned I will take anything you got left left- I am ten years old now and everybody tells me that some day clay I will be a great man I dreamed one night that I would be president of the student body but I dont don't want to dream that 4 again again it it was too much worry But nut if you have got any books about how to learn to become a great man I will be glad for one of them their t in addition to the other things I must close now because my baby j f brother is crying and I have got to tend him f 8 Y Goodbye with respect from i w RICHARD W. W YOUNG JR r c P. P S S. S I hope you dont don't think I told you about tending the baby so so Io f. f you'd oud d 1 bring me you more Salt Lake City Utah J a J- J t December 1907 I Dear Santa Clans ClausI Claus Claus- I am not like other little girls for instead of wanting three tiu-ee dolls and a perambulator and some curling tongs for Christmas I would J like a small gas range and a set of dishes and a cook book Perhaps L' L you car cannot not afford to bring bring me tl these ese things this his year because because I h have ve j x K heard that you are poor this Christmas bt but t if you possibly can bring them I shall be deli delighted I will hang my stocking on the green curtains curtains cur cur- fi between the library and the dining room loom so be bc very careful notto not notto c to get soot on the carpet when you come in and please put the cook cookbook y F book in my stocking and the gas range on the floor near it Wishing L you and and Mrs Santa Claus a very Merry l Christmas i I am am yours very truly LUCIA VAN COTT COTTo P. P s S. S If you can not bring me mc those things or if you do not want to qt r r r e why dont clont But put try to bring me something and I r will take that v L. L V. V C. C N N. B. B r I I am seven years old and I have a brother I Salt Lake City Utah s i a December 19 1907 7 f Dear Santa z Do po you ever have any hair tonic in your store I would like a book and a blue tie but if I could have some reliable hair tonic instead I r Iv 0 y v would forgo the tie an and the book My ly hair hiir is a good color but it is not as thick as I I would like it to be so I am trying to make it grow faster Do you think it would help it If f I should take a short constitutional con gon- on- on before breakfast every morning Please do not sh show w t this letter to anybody and burn it as soon as you have read it Hoping that that you will not forget me I remain yours jours faithfully W. W T. T SCOTT KEYTING University of Utah December 1907 St. St Nicholas Santa Claus Clans r t. t Northland Dear Sir Although I have heard that the monetary stringency is affecting your visits this year I thought that I would write to you anyway Could you possibly bring me three sets of spare ribs and two bones I 1 am a freshman in the medical course in this university y and I need all I can get There are some other fellows here heie who want a a. cadaver but they are aie afraid to write to you vou for fear ear that your wife t- t should read the letter but I thought it would vo be alright for me nie to tov v ask as long as I was not asking asking- for it myself If you bring us these 4 things we will do our best to do do something for you some day clay but if iff f you live much longer we are apt to die before you do Adieu honored honore l sir and a a. happy new ye year r. r F. F H. H B. B Medic Salt Satt Lake Lake- City Dec 15 1907 t De Dear r Santa Santa Santa- w In mT my my work I have hav been very faithful faithful and have used unceasingly unceasingly un un- I. I that excellent story which you left with me last y year ar about stealing lawfully I It t would be useless to enumerate the teachers' teachers institutes at y which I used it in addition to the foot-ball foot banquet where it was very effective and at chapel Now if in your pack along with your sleds and toys for the dear dears I s little children you von have room please include that story for me Like the tile boy who has worn out ant his sled and wants a new one I 1 want vant a new new new- story to take the place of my old one WILLIAM I ST STEWART EvV ART State Normal School of Utah I 1 My vly Dear Governor 1 I am sick and hearted down as Christmas ChristInas Christ Christ- mas Inas is coming on and I 1 am broke I 1 have had the hardest luck of anyone in school You see I 1 bet on Utah and Boulder beat us then as the Tigers beat Boulder I bet on them to beat Utah and had my money won but Ferguson kicked the drop and I 1 lost again Hoping Hoping Hoping Hop Hop- ing to hear soon from you I am as ever H H- H r- r rf f |