This merry season, that Twitter feed has been filled with actual excerpts from children's letters to Santa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They offer a window into that bygone era. They are scary at times (with so many gun references). And, mostly, they are laugh-out-loud funny. Or maybe that's just how my warped sense of humor reads them.
I encourage you to take some time to go through the full Twitter feed.
Here are some of my favorites thus far, as we jingle all the way toward our own 21st century Christmas.
Dear Santa: Please bring me a dump truck, chewing gum, a watch that runs. Grandpa is dead. Grandma needs a new glass eye. Fred MO1930
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) November 29, 2014Dear Mr. Santa Claus, I want a checker board and a rifle. Please dont bring any more cats, we have plenty of cats. Goodby, Henry PA1903
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 4, 2014Santa: I am the worst boy you have ever seen in your born days. But if you give me a pocket knife I will try to do better. Donald VA1900
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 5, 2014Dear Santa: Bring me a bicycle. How I have studied. I studied hard. I have studied about ten times. I am going to study more. Anon SC1913
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 5, 2014dear santa: My doll had a very bad accident. She smashed her head in a door so now she hasnt any head. Please bring her a head. Olga IL1903
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 6, 2014Dear Santa, I am a boy 11 years old. I have picked cotton hard this fall. I would like a stocking full of nice things to eat. Tommie GA1912
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 8, 2014Santa: My little brother Clyde fell down the other day and broke his face. Please bring him a new one. A false face will do. Walter NM1909
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 9, 2014Dear Santa: I want a toy cow. I am not afraid of you. Tubby KS1899
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 11, 2014Dear Santa: I want a wild pig, a train, an old man driving a pig, a whip, and some banannas. I don't want anything else. -George KY1893
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 11, 2014Dear Santa: We are two little boys. We want books to read, not Fairy stories. We want sure enough books. Lawrence and Conway VA1900
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 11, 2014Dear Santa: If you please sir, I want a billy goat and a train what you wind up. and I want the whole earth. Your little boy, Odie KY1891
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 11, 2014Dear Santa: I am 10 years old. Papa is an old Confederate soldier. Please bring me a little gun to kill birds. With respect, Willie FL1907
— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 12, 2014
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