More letters from Santa from..........1951 Dear Santa: I am a little boy almost six years old. Please bring me a red bicycle, a knife, candy, fruit and nuts. I've been a pretty good boy all year, so please don't forget me. Lavern HOLIFIELD Dear Santa: I want a pistol and a BB gun and my little brother wants a gun and lots of apples. My sister wants some house slippers and bring daddy a billfold. Good bye, Jim BURNS Dear Santa: I want a doll and some candy, oranges, apples for Christmas, a baby buggy, necklace and bracelet. Put them under our tree. I like my teacher and I am going to get her a necklace. Zetty LAROE Dear Santa: We are four little brothers and sisters. I, Billy, would like guns and holsters and truck. Mary would like a doll and doll bed. Bobby Lee would like a gun and holster and truck. Elizabeth Ann wants a doll and teddy bear, and please bring us anything else you would like. We have been pretty good and don't forget all the other little boys and girls. Yours truly, Billy, Mary, Bobby and Elizabeth SHIPMAN Dear Santa: I am a little girl seven years old. I go to Success School in the second grade. I want a Cindeella doll and my sister wants a doll and a rattler. That will be all this year. Barbara HODGES Dear Santa: I want a toy truck and a toy caterpillar. I have been a good little boy. Butch WOOLARD Dear Santa: I want a big doll and nuts, candy, oranges and apples. I am in the second grade. Good bye Santa, Billy June VANNADA Dear Santa: I live in Success. I am a little girl in the second grade. I want a doll, nuts, candy, apples and oranges. Shirley CAVITT Dear Santa: I am a little boy three years old and I think I have been good this year. Would you please bring me a horse on springs, a cowboy suit, a two gun holster, a Hopalong Cassidy hat, a pair of spurs, a ranch set, a piano, a dart rifle and anything else you think would be nice for me. Your little friend, Billy SHEPARD Dear Santa: Bring me a doll that will go to sleep and bring me a coloring book and a box of colors. I am in the first grade and don't forget my little sisters. Bring them a doll too. June KIRBY Dear Santa: I am a little boy two and one half years old. I am a pretty good little boy and would like for you to bring me a toy train, tractor, set of cowboy pistols, shotgun, ball and anything else you wish. And please remember Susan at 910 North State Street in Ann Arbor and all my cousins. Leslie MIZELL Dear Santa: I am a lovely little blonde headed girl and I try to be nice to everybody. Here is what I would like to have for Christmas. A doll that I can comb her hair, set of dishes, accordion and a bike and housecoat, some candy, oranges and apples. Don't forget my little cousins, Jack, Jerry and Ronald HATLEY near Reyno and Diane, Thomas and Clifford DENTON. So I say good bye Santa until I see you Christmas Eve night. Etta Sue, 911 South Fourth Street. Dear Santa: I am a little girl eight years old and have a brother two and one half years old. We have been very good. I would like a bicycle and a sewing machine and he would like a gun, ball, tractor and tools. We would both like candy, nuts and fruit. We will go to bed early. Melvaline and Alvin LEACH Dear Santa: I am six years old, will soon be seven. I am in the second grade. I like to go to school very much. I would like to have a doll buggy and twin dolls and house shoes and a cowgirl suit with the hat, guns and boots and lots of nuts, candy, oranges and apples. Don't forget Grandma, Mamma, daddy, mother and all the kids. Yours sincerely, you are so sweet Santa. Saundra Cecile BALL Dear Santa: I am a little girl six years old. I go to school at New Hope. I am in the primer. I like to go to school just fine. Santa, I want a doll, some doll clothes, some dishes, a little iron, a pocket book, a red rocking chair a new dress, a pair of slippers. i will sign off. Your little friend, Sharon Darliene HANNER Dear Santa: I am a little boy three years old. Will you please bring me a big tricycle with a horn on it, a ball, color set and some leather boots. Don't forget my brother and daddy. Jackie Don PHILLIPS Dear Santa: I have been a pretty good girl. Please bring me a bride doll, bicycle, set of dishes, pair of skates, record player, nurse set and anything else you want me to have. Don't forget the poor little boys and girls, also the Koreans. Anita POLLARD Dear Santa: I am a little boy almost six years old, so I can't write very good yet, but my big sister is writing for me. I go to school at Success. Miss HALE is my teacher, be sure to bring her something nice and bring me a basketball, gun and holster and a new car. Bring Ruth something nice, too. Whatever you think she would like. I'll go to bed early. Your little friend, Bobby HARPOLE. This is the last of the Santa letters from 1951. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. Amazing the simple things the children back then asked for isn't it? Merry Christmas everyone!!!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com