This is a letter – formal and personal – from Dad’s Uncle Edward on the birth of Mom and Dad’s first child.
Edward Denman Claycomb is a brother of Amos Claycomb and son of Anna Sarah Townsend and Frank E. Claycomb.
This I Leave
Mothers leave a saucer & a story: Claycombs, Duncans, & more
This I Leave 
Do you suppose it would be an email today? If so, I wonder if there would be the same stiff formality mingled in?
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As an email it would probably be even shorter. The letter makes me wonder if he dictated it to his secretary for her to type.
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Ah, bet you’re right! Thus the notation…should have written long-hand. Would have liked to have been a fly on both the sender’s and the reciever’s wall for that one!
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