Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case there is one of Carroll's "Wonderland postage stamp cases" with drawings by John Tenniel on the back and case. "Eight or nine words about letter writing" that went with Carroll's own personal stamp case, are of especial interest. In this case, also, is "The Game of Logic" with diagrams and counters...
Perhaps the smallest letter ever written was one called "The Miniature Letter" and was written by Carroll to Dynphna Ellis and signed "Sylvie". One of the first prints of this is among other letters of Carroll. The entire exhibit will be in the cases for two weeks, until the resuming of classes after the Spring recess...
Acting Mayor Fred B. Frazier of Chattanooga, Tenn.: "My wife and I received with anxious hands a special delivery letter. It read: 'We have your baby. It will take $3,333.33. She is all right, but last night was cold. We don't know what will happen this cold weather. Be ready with the money when we call you. This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed...
John D. Rockefeller Sr.: "Last week my grandson,* Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a freshman at Dartmouth College, entered the public eye. With an insolence rare among freshmen, he and his classmate, John French Jr., flayed the fraternity system at Dartmouth. Their letter, which was broadcast by the Associated Press, said in part: The fraternities devote too much time to the task of perpetuating themselves . . . and are in danger of collapsing through pursuit of a false goal...
Died. George Wheeler Hinman, 62, Hearst financial writer; at Winnetka, Ill., from heart disease aggravated by ptomaine poisoning. President Coolidge sent a letter of condolence to the widow...