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Letters to Mary Dunton - 10/23/1913

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Here's our first "burn this letter" instruction from Lavinia. I'm glad Mary didn't obey, but I'm not sure how juicy it really is. There's a special delivery stamp, plus some extra postmarks on the back of the envelope.

Same term address as usual.

Letters to Mary Dunton - 10/05/1913

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Here we have a letter from George Dunton, written on a Sunday, a week after the last letter. It's written on half-height sheets.

Oct 5, 1913

Dear Mary,
Not much to write but just a line so you will know you are not forgotten though far away.

Letters to Mary Dunton - 9/28/1913

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The next letter in the sequence. We've got two letters in each of October, November and December coming up, and I'm going to try to keep them coming.

 

Miss Mary D Dunton
606 Francis St
Madison
Wis.

We'll be seeing this address a lot; mostly it's annotated with "c/o Ye Faith Inn" and it's apparently her college boarding house.

Letters to Mary Dunton - 8/11/1913

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Here's the next letter in the pile, well over a year since the last. It's written by Lavinia, to her daughter.

Miss Mary D. Dunton,
1724 Gaylord St.,
Denver,
Colorado.

Letters to Mary Dunton - 5/12/1912

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I'm going to start in the middle here, and fill in some of the backstory later, but I have in my possession (via the legwork and research of a very kind stranger) a package of letters written to my paternal grandmother's cousin.  Mary Denton Dunton would have been born in about 1893, and the package contains letters written to her from both parents (Lavinia Starr Denton Dunton and George William Dunton), and several friends.  I've started to scan them all; the dates initially suggested that I might be able to do a blog project of posting each of them 100 years after it was written, but in a

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