Matagorda County History & Genealogy page
1929
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little girl, eight years old. I am very glad to see dear old Santa come but so sorry to see him forget some poor little girl or boy who hasen’t got any money to buy them something nice for Christmas. Please when you remember ever one else that hasen’t got no way to get something nice if you have some left bring me a rain coat to wear to school when it rains hard. And if you have enough dolls to spare bring me one with brown curly hair and little sister wants a doll and my little brother says he wants a ball. Now dear Santa please don’t forget all the poor little children for you know our dear Lord said the poor were his and he hates to see any one forget his people and I do to. Will close hoping you get my letter and wishing you a Merry Christmas.
Vivian Fisher, Box 1173
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl two years old. I would like for you to bring me a tricycle, a little rocking chair and any other toys you may have to spare. I live in New Gulf, but you will find me in Bay City at my grandmother’s Mrs. Norcross, on Christmas eve night. Your little friend.
Melvin Carroll Kennedy
Dear Santa Claus:
I am so happy that Christmas will soon be here. I always have more fun during the holidays than any other time of the year. I know you are wondering what I want for Christmas. I had rather have a bike, banjo, uke, old maid game please, jack straws, a big trunk for myself, Tip the Belle Boy. Will be pleased with anything else you wish to bring me. Always your little friend, age nine years.
Mary Helen Norcross
P. S.—I would also like to have a game called Gee Wiz Horse Race.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am glad to see you come again this year on Christmas Eve. I want you to see all the children in the world and if you have a pump air rifle left please give it to me, and also give me a steam engine. But please do not forget the other poor little boys and girls. But what I would like best of all is a good rain coat of which keeps the cold and rain out and a pair of boots to go with it. I wear size 3 and I wear about size 12 in my rain coat. Send me either one of the two. Don’t forget the other poor children.
Yours truly,
Roy Lee Booth, Bay City, Texas
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little boy 11 years old. I have been to most every store in town and see most all the toys and the best I have seen yet was a tractor at J. C. Penney’s store, it is yellow with a little red wagon fastened on behind it, it just costs $1.98, so if you can Santa please bring it to me for I sure want it to play with, and please remember every little boy and girl all grown people too in B. C. and everywhere for it sure is sad to be forgot at Xmas time. I sure do hope it snows a big snow at Xmas, so we can all play in the snow and if it does I am going to make me a big Santa Claus out of snow, so I will close wishing you a very merry Xmas.
Your friend, Marvin Fisher
I am a little boy 11 years old.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am very glad to see you come. What I want is a tractor like over at J. C. Penney store with a wagon on the back of it. I have two brothers and one little sister. My brother is eight years old and wants a big fire truck like over at Cox’s and one five wants a dump car and my sister wants a set of dishes. Well Santa this is about all I want so hope other little kinds get what they want and so do I.
Wishing all a Merry Christmas, Acel Ponder
Dear Santa Claus:
Oh, I am so proud of Christmas to be here soon again. I am 10 years old. Santa Claus all I wish for Christmas is a single shot air rifle. I have a brother, Clifford, he is eight years old. He wants Santa Claus to bring him a fire truck and an airplane. So please don’t forget all of the other poor boys and girls.
Your friend, Louis, Clifford Bothe
Dear Santa Claus:
Merry Christmas to everybody. Oh, I am so proud Christmas will soon be here again. Dear Santa Claus, I wish to have a pair of shoes, size one and a baby doll that crys and sleeps and candy and a apple to eat. And I have two sisters, they are seven and two years old. Irene wants a baby doll that can sleep and cry and would like to have pair of shoes, size 11 and sure would like to have a dinner set. My baby sister, Georgia May, wants a baby doll and a tea set to play with and other play things. Please don’t forget all other children, who want things. Please come Christmas eve.
Your friends, Viola, Irene and Georgie May Bothe
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little boy six years old and I hope you don’t forget me this Christmas.
I want a jumping box, a toy horn, a chest of tools, a toy aeroplane, a little car and anything else you want to bring me.
Love, Frank Jr., Osborne
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a big doll, a great big one, and some dishes, a doll cart and I want Frederick and Margaret Ann to come to see me. I am two years old.
Betty Osborne
Dear Santa Claus:
Do you think all this rain will keep you from getting to Bay City? If not I want to tell you a few things I would like, a Mary Ann kitchen set, you can get it at J. C. Penney’s, a roll top desk, a dolls kitchen utensil set. If you have to leave out any of the poor children you need not bring me all those things, but bring some to them instead. I am nine years old.
Lots of love, Mary Alice Osborne
Dear Santa Claus:
My mother says I am too little to know anything about you, but I want a rubber doll that whistles and a dog that barks.
Tell Mrs. Claus hello for me when you get back home. I am a little boy seven months old.
Love, Billie Boy Stanley
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little boy twelve years old. I want a football more than anything that I know of. It only costs $2.98.
I have always been wanting a football for a long time, but I have not got any. I hope you can spare me one. I have a sister sixteen years old. She wants a box of handkerchiefs. But the football. Oh Boy!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas. Kenneth Gordon
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl five years old. You never have brought me a great big doll like I love so much. You have lots of pretty dolls in town, but P. G. Huston has the sweetest and prettiest dolls in town and they are not so high priced either, so please dear Santy go there and look in the window and send me that great big brown haired sleeping mama doll, you will make a sad little girl glad. Please don’t forget where she is cause she is the best doll in town, but if you do any kind will do. A merry Christmas to all.
Your little friend, Susie Fisher
Dearest Santa Claus:
I know you are very busy getting things ready for the good little boys and girls. I haven’t been so very bad. My name is Elizabeth Hogden. I am nine years old and I live at Wadsworth. I have a little brother seven years old just starting to school. I want a doll, some china dishes, anything else you want to bring me. Little brother would like to have a football, an air rifle, a dump truck, but listen, don’t forget the poor little boys and girls.
Love,
Elizabeth Hogden, Wadsworth, Texas, Box 77
Dear Santa Claus:
I want you to bring me a bow and arrow, a steam roller and an airplane. Jack wants a doll. We will be glad to get anything you bring Santa.
Buck McKelvy
Dear Old Santa Claus:
I am a little girl seven years old and I want a Mary Ann Kitchen Set. You will find it at J. C. Penney’s and they have a high chair and a bench box I want too. This will be all for me, Santa, I have a little brother, he is five years old and he wants you to bring him a B. B. gun and a tool chest. Now I think this will be all for this year.
But Santa, plase be sure and remember the rest of the little children and we will have you some cake when you come. Wishing you a Merry Christmas.
Laura Louise Gerrell
1930
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little girl two years old. Please bring me a dolly, a little piano like Mr. Penney has, a broom, a hammer and a blackboard.
Please don’t miss any little boy or girl.
I will leave the front door unlocked for you.
I love you, Ella Frances Vaughn
Dear Santa Claus;
I saw in the Daily Tribune for every boy and girl old and young to write to you. So I am trying my luck now. I wrote to you last Christmas and did not get anything but I don’t care anyhow for there were so many poor children that did not get anything. I will tell you what I want. I think J. C. Penney’s store has some of the prettiest dolls in town and there is a doll in Penney’s window that I want. She is sitting in a little doll cart and has on a white dress and a pink jacket and a little pink cap like the jacket, they are both trimmed in white. In the store I think the doll is in a box. Well dear Santa I believe that is all I want this Christmas, but my little sister wants a doll like mine. So goodbye dear Santa.
Yours truly, Vivian Lois Fisher, Box 1172
Age 9
I am a little girl ten years old.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am in school. I saw a little boy doll at Oshman’s that I want you to bring me. Please bring me some books to read, a pencil box, a pair of gloves, a red and white like china set. Hope you do not forget the bike. With best wishes.
Your friend, Helen Mary Norcross
Dear Santa:
My name is Buck McKelvy, I am seven years old, and am in the first grade.
I would like very much for you to bring me a scooter and airplane, a big blue one like those at Butler-Grimes.
I have been a good boy and I will always love you.
Buck
My name is Adalie King. I am five years old.
For Christmas I want a doll, you can get it at Penney’s. It has a pink sweater, pink cap, and has white shoes on. I want a blanket and china dishes to match. Santa please fill my stocking with candy, fruit and nuts.
My sister, Jimmie Lou, wants the same only her doll has blue eyes, etc.
I have been a very good girl, and I still love you.
Adalie and Jimmy Lou
Buckeye, Texas
Dear Santa Claus:
I am writing to tell you what I want for Christmas. I want a doll, embroidery set, a box of water colors, and a stocking of goodys.
I want you to bring my little sister a doll without hair because she will pull it off and to bring her some little tinkertoys.
Your helper, Leona Dunbar
Buckeye, Texas
Dear Santa Claus;
My name is Margaret Schulze. I want a phonograph and a blackboard too and my brother wants a fuzzy dog. My brother’s name is Howard Dean Schulze. My brother is 17 months old.
Your helper, Margaret Schulze
Bay City, Texas
Dear Santa Claus:
I want a saw with a steel blade and hack saw, jaw vise, tinner’s snips, soldering iron, solder, plane, hammer, chisel, brace and bit, file, and a ruler, a turnover tank and a bicycle.
Yours truly,
Bruce Thomas
P. S.—Roy wants a steam roller that will hold 150 pounds, a filling station 15-inches long, a pool table for a little boy, and a dumping truck.
Roy
P.S.—The baby wants a doll that opens and shuts her eyes and cries and a 25 cents iron car and two little straight chairs and all kinds of candy and nuts and fruits.
Yours truly, Bruce, Roy & Baby
1931
Dear Santa Claus:
I thought I would write you a letter and ask you for some presents for Christmas.
Santa, I want a pair of red gloves, a little doll in pajamas like in J. C. Penney’s store. She has on flowered pajamas. She sure is pretty and I sure do want her.
Well Dear Santa I am hurrying this letter off to see if you really will send me this gift. Dear Santa my sister is writing you too. I hope you will send at least one of us something. Well Santa Claus Goo-by.
Your little friend, Susie Astel Fisher
Age 7, Box 1173, Bay City, Texas
Dear Santa:
This makes the third time I have wrote to you but have not received anything so far. My brother got a tractor from you about two years ago. Well Santa believe I will tell you what I want.
Christmas, I want one pair of blue gloves, a little black or red belt, and a manicure set. Dear Santa I think that is enough for me. But my little brother and sister would like to have a little teddy bear. Santa Claus I haven’t anything else to say so goodbye Santa Claus!
Vivian Lois Fisher,
Box 1173, Bay City, Texas
I am a little boy six years old. I want a little dragline, a train, a great big truck, a story book and a paint book. I also want a little tractor. I am waiting till Christmas Day and hope that you can bring me these things.
Love, Gardener Serril
Bay City, Texas
Dear Santa Claus:
I am six years old and going to school and I would like for you to help me this Christmas. I am not able to mail you money this year. Please bring me the things you can spare most. I am a little boy and I live at Grandpa Hughes place. If you can please bring me some candy, apples, oranges and nuts.
With love, W. B. Hughes
Bay City, Texas
Dear Santa:
I am a little girl 11 years old. We havent’ much this Christmas and no money to send you. All I want is that little doll in J. C. Penney’s store. She has on little black shoes and white socks. She has on a little blue and white dress, real eyelids that open and shut. And she has painted hair. And if you can Dear Santa please leave me some apples, oranges, candy and nuts.
I have a little cousin who lives out of town. His mother is sick and he has no daddy to buy for him. He will be two years old in March. Won’t you please remember him on Christmas? If you can’t get out to his house just leave him a little box and I’ll give it to him on Christmas. Well Dear Santa that is all. Much love,
Your little friend, Agnes May Hughes
Bay City, Texas
Dear Santa Claus:
I am 9 years old. I would like to have a little help from you this Christmas. I am not able to get many things if you can Dear Santa Claus please bring me a doll, as near like dollie Dimples as you can and a manicure set, apples, candy, oranges and nuts. That is all I want. With love,
Your friend, Marjorie Helen Hughes
Matagorda, Texas
Dec. 10, 1931
Dear Santa Claus:
Will you please bring me a doll, a piano and a doll swing. Don’t forget to bring me some candy and fruit. I have been a good girl all year. Love to you.
Dorothy Jane Carlton
Dear Santa Claus:
I live at Wadsworth and am five years old. I think I am a good little girl and I want Dear Santa Claus to bring me a set of dishes, a doll and doll buggy and a cabinet to put my dishes in and don’t forget to bring some candy as the roads are very muddy you may have to come in an airplane.
I will look for you just the Christmas night.
Yours truly, Little Ruth Hatchett