Some
Observations about the Letters
Original
spelling and punctuation was kept. Formatting is also original, except for most
of Caroline’s letters. Caroline rarely used periods and many times her entire
letter was just one L-O-N-G paragraph. To make it easier to read, I often
inserted new paragraphs.
There
are “peculiar” things that I noticed in these letters.
One,
I love the creative hyphenation of words. When they came to the end of the
line, regardless of where they were in a word, everyone just concluded the word
on the next line. No pesky punctuation rules of where to break words with
syllables.
Also,
you’ll notice that “the” is used for the word “they.” This is not my typo—that
is how they wrote it. “Dont” is “don’t” and there are many, many examples of
how they creatively spelled different words. Lots of fun stuff to read.
Letter Format
Here is an example of what
you’ll see on each letter. The line divides the data on the outside of the
envelope from the actual letter. (Some of the posts have this dividing line;
others do not.)
C.J. Peterson
Box 17 Logan [Return
address on envelope]
Utah
Miss Louise C. Peterson
2226 Chapel Street [Addressee on the
envelope]
Berkeley
California
[Top portion of letter] N.
Logan Ut. R#2 Box 17
June
17—1923
My dear dear Daugther Lovis. [Greeting and
beginning of letter]
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