OMG this is the sweetest thing I've seen in a long time! Good bye for now. Your friend, gracielou

Awe! These are so cute read. It was so nice of your aunt to save them all and share them with you. Great Post!

You know, I miss hand written letter so much. Everything is instant today. Even this reply. I have terrible penmanship but I am (normally) a very good speller so although my stuff is not neat, you can usually make the words out. My son is 8 and writes far better than I ever did. You had very good hand writing as well.
Beautiful post. Inspiring.

That's so sweet. A little nostalgia to make you tear up...

I love the part where I wrote "Connie says Dear Uncle Onnie if you can't get a horse I'll ride one at the new zoo". My dad and Uncle Onnie kept promising us a horse when their 'ship came in'. But Connie was so sweet...if Onnie couldn't get one for her, she'd ride one at the zoo.

I loved this! Rated, pure love.

Hey, my dad promised me the same thing, a horse, when the ship came in too, I'm still waiting for that damn ship!! I think it may have sunk...:)

The letters are cute!! Ahhhhhhh!! :)

Sweet and loving, like the child you were/are. Thanks for this.

This reminds me of my childhood when I began writing letters to both grandmothers. When I was growing up we lived in Illinois, Colorado, and later New Jersey, always a long distance from my grandparents' farms in Arkansas and Tennessee.

Every August we made the long trip to visit them. From Colorado it took two days to get to my Arkansas grandparents across blazing hot Kansas (no air conditioning in cars then!), then another very long day across the width of Arkansas and halfway across Tennesse to my grandparents there. Actually, we spent more time traveling than actually visiting! But because I loved reading, spelling, books, and writing stuff as a child, I began writing detailed letters to my grandmothers and didn't stop until their deaths when I was an adult.

I have often thought those letters were an exercise in grammar, spelling, and creative writing that I really enjoyed and fueled my love for writing in general. I continued writing letters to aunts, cousins, friends, and still do. My longest correspondence is with my oldest friend in the entire world, my "pen pal" in England, whom I have visited several times. We've been friends writing to each other for 43 years now!

Amy, that is so great. Thanks for sharing your story. I hope your grandmother saved yur letters. I'm going to start writing more letters to people. I still love finding letters in my mailbox.

nice penmanship!..very cute