SentLetters

Note: I posted this to wikipedia, and I even commented and followed their rules to instantiate importance. They deleted the thing anyway. If you get a chance, please go and put the article back up.

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 In my research about the previous letter, I did a quick google search and a quick wikipedia search for the Drexler Coal Company. Neither of which turned up anything of any consequence. So I posted a new wikipedia article for Drexler Coal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler_Coal_Company

If you have any information about this company please make sure to add it to the wikipedia article. As soon as I created the one linked to above, the bots that manage the site attempted to have it auto-deleted because they thought it was an effort at spamming wikipedia.

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This letter came with a box of other letters related to the Drexlers and The Drexler Coal Company.   As you can see it does not have a date on it.

The envelope is Drexler Coal:

The letter head is YMCA of World’s Fair New York:

So Ben went to two top of the line clinics and five separate doctors to diagnose a case of ringworm.  Ringoworm must have been a big deal or somewhat unheard of in the 1930’s because it is very common nowadays.

Also amazing is that Ben met a girl named “Blue Green”.

The book he discusses is possibly “Earth, My Friend” By Peter Townsend.  If this is in fact the book he is referring to, then the letter had to have been written after or during 1959 and not in the 30’s like the rest of the letters that I got with this one.

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Now that I have over 200 letters sitting queued up in my office, and another 300 or so on their way here, I am going to change the format of my posts.

I will be posting letters by putting a full or close to full size picture in the post, and then commenting on the letter, or posting a quote from the letter. This will allow me to feel a lot less overwhelmed about this project, and post more letters more frequently.

I will type the letters that I really like or if you as a reader want me to type the letter up, I will do that. Also, if there is anyone out there that is interested in helping with the project by typing the letter from the scan it would be appreciated by myself and the readers of the Sent Letters project.

I also am going to start categorizing the letters based on the family name of the person sending or receiving the letters.  I believe that this will give a greater chance that the letters will attract the family members of the original writer/recipient of the letters.

I hope that you continue to enjoy project, and that you come back and visit often.

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For my birthday My girlfriend helped me buy some new letters for the site.  The description from the ebay auction is below:

“SO MUCH HISTORY HERE FROM ALL OVER TENN.,AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES.HANDWRITTEN/LEGAL,PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE.CAME FROM AN ATTY NAMED C.J.CULLOM,APPEARS HE HAD COURT CASES OVER THE PLACE.MANY ARE QUITE INTERESTING.HAVE NOT READ MOST OF IT.100′S OF LETTERS, DCUMENTS, SIGNATURES, STAMPS AND COVERS FROM VARIOUS PLACES AS WELL. HUGE LOT THAT WILL TAKE MONTHS TO READ AND RESEARCH ALL OF THIS STUFF.WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO START TELLING YOU OF WHAT YOU MIGHT FIND IN HERE.MAYBE LONG LOST FAMILY MEMBERS.ANYONE COULD HAVE SIGNED OR WRITTEN THIS LARGE LOT OF ITEMS FROM MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE.WILL NOT GO WRONG ON THIS LOT! THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE TO OWN REAL LIVE HISTORY HERE!!!  WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS ONE.OWN THIS LARGE LOT OF PIECES OF HISTORY! THIS IS IN VERY NICE CONDITION.DATED FROM 1902-1920′S. 80 YEARS OF ACCUMULATION HERE! SIZES OF EACH LETTER OR DOCUMENT VARIES.A GREAT LOT OF PIECES OF REFERENCING MATERIAL.GREAT VINTAGE  ITEMS YOU DO NOT SEE TODAY! MORE TO SEE THEN MEETS THE EYE WITH THIS IN FRONT OF YOU! OVERALL A RARE PIECE OF PAPER I WOULD IMAGINE! COST TO SHIP IS 12.00  IN AMERICA AND INCLUDES SHIPPING HANDLING DELIVERY CONFIRMATION SLIP.OVERSEAS IS 45.00 PLEASE.GOD BLESS YOU THIS WEEK! “

I am very excited to go through these letters and get them ready for the site.  Usually I organize them by date, and then I will scan and post them as I they make it through the line of letters  to post.

Here are the pictures from the ebay post we found them on:

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