Letter from French Massey
Eager to join the Armed Forces, French Massey wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 12, 1943, asking him to lower the draft age to 17.
Letter from Kelli Middlestead
Kelli Middlestead, a second grader at Franklin School in Burlingame, California, asked the Alaskan Regional Director of Fish and Wildlife Service to clean up the...
Letter from Sheryl Byland
Sheryl Byland drew for President Dwight D. Eisenhower her suggestion for a new national flag after Alaska became the 49th state.
Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt
Hans Habe wrote a letter on February 6, 1944, asking First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to be his son’s godmother.
Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt
Inventor Fredfrick (sic) Merrill Shaw sent this drawing of a handheld flying machine to President Theodore Roosevelt on September 18, 1902.
Literacy is essential
In 1965, some states required citizens to take literacy tests to register to vote. Charles Geiser wrote to House Judiciary Chairman, Emmanuel Celler, opposing the...
Making amends
This anonymous letter to the Secretary of the Treasury included one dollar for an extra loaf of bread taken 36 years earlier while serving in the army during the...