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From: Ruth Barton< >
Subject: Re: [GenChat-L] Preserving Family Documents...
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:16:07 -0400

>Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:35:22 -0400
>From: (Ruth Barton)
>Subject:Re: [GenChat-L] Preserving Family Documents...
>
>
>>But what do you do with your parents' love letters?...My dad predeceased my
>>mother, and my mother and father kept all of the letters they exchanged while
>>they were courting, while they were engaged, and every time my dad had to
>>travel out of town (which was a good bit fairly early in his career, and early
>>in their marriage)...
>
>>How would you deal with this?...
>>
>>Chas
>
>Hi Chas, I most certainly would NOT destroy these letters!!! You may not
>want to read them, I would, but in future generations they will be
>invaluable to descendants to know these folks. My grandmother destroyed
>lots of letters that had been stored in the attic of my grandparent's
>home, which has been in my grandfather's family since 1700s. I do so wish
>she hadn't done that. It provides a picture of their lives written by the
>people themselves. Just my opinion, Ruth
>

Ruth (HOUGHTON) BARTON
Westminster,Vermont, USA

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