Reactions to My Birth

My birth was apparently announced by telegrams from Dad to his father, brother, and sister.  In response came letters (and, according to family legend, a telegram from grandfather saying: "make a football player of him").

Typing Love Letters

"After their invention in the 1860s, typewriters quickly became indispensable tools for practically all writing other than personal correspondence."  That's from wikipedia.

Shows how much they know.  Among the family heirlooms my sister had were some love letters from my grandfather to my grandmother Ada, typed in 1884.