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Weird 100-year-old Christmas wishes revealed

By T.K. Randall
December 24, 2018
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Letters to Santa written by children during the late 19th and early 20th centuries have been revealed on Twitter.
The process of writing a letter to Santa Claus at Christmas time has been a tradition for millions of children across the world for well over 100 years, however as one Twitter feed has demonstrated, not all of these letters were quite as you might expect.

The following are believed to be genuine letters from children written between 1895 and 1914.








You can find dozens more examples on the R.L. Ripples 'Tweets of Old' feed - here.

Source: Huffington Post




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