Dear Santa Clause: –
I want you to please bring me a little stove a doll bed and a cart. And please bring me some fruit too.
Your little friend,
Maude Estes.
Princeton, S. C., Dec. 17, 1914.

Dear Santa Claus: –
I want you to bring me a ball a pair of gloves and some candy nuts and fruits.
Your little friend,
Merrett Arnold. Age 11.
Princeton, S. C., Dec. 17, 1914.

Dear Santa Claus
How are you feeling I want you to bring me a stove, a pair of kid gloves a big doll and a cart a chair a big bed, a little wagon to ride in and some fruits to eat I must close
Your friend,
Winnie Davis.

Dear Santa Claus
How are you feeling I want you to bring me a stove, a pair of kid gloves a big doll and a cart a chair a big bed, a little wagon to ride in and some fruits to eat. I must close.
Your friend,
Ruth Ridgeway.

Waterloo, S. C.
Dec. 7, 1914.
My dear old Santa: –
I know it is hard times now but I want you to bring just as much as you can. I want a bicycle lots of fruits, nuts, fireworks, fiddle and a gun. I have been a pretty good boy and bad too but I will be lots better if you will bring all these.
Your little friend,
Edward Henderson.

Columbia S. C.
1108 Elmwood ave.
Dear old Santa
I have been seeing some letters in The State to you from a lot of little folks so I will tell you what I would like you to bring me. I want a telephone and a cap pistol and some caps to shoot with and a nice raincoat and hat and Rubbers to wear in the mud and I hope you can bring me a pretty Christmas tree all trimmed nicely with candles and I want a nice lot of fruit and candy so I will stop now and try to be as good as possible for I know you like good boys; my mamma says so. good bye with love from one of your little boys.
Francis Littlejohn.

Waterloo, S. C.
Dear Santa,
Please bring me a doll, automobile, dress, oranges, apples, candy, and raisins. I will put a piece of cake in my box for you.
Your friend,
Helen Madden.

Horatio, S. C.
Dec. 11 1914
Dear Santa Claus,
I am a little girl nine years old, and am in second grade, please bring me a dolly stove a machine, and lots of fruit and candy.
Your little friend,
Frances Moody.

Gaffney, S. C.
Dec 11, 1914.
Dear Santa Claus,
I am a boy 10 years old. My birthday is two days before Xmas. It has been hard times since the war begun.
I will not ask for much this Xmas because the Belgian children will not have any Santa Claus this Xmas except the gifts but what are going in the Xmas ship from the United States. I know the State tells the truth or as near as it can and that’s what it says. I don’t guess it went to Europe to see the war so it has to say what other papers are saying. The war is a terrible thing I wish it was over.
But here is what I do want you bring me.
Will you please bring me a set of Ten Pens and a little airship and a little street car that run on a track. and some fruits and candies.
I will close.
From your loving little friend
Don West
120 E Buford St. Gaffney S. C.
P. S. I am enterrested in reading The State dear Old Santa I wish you would print my letter in The State, Good by Merry Xmas Do not forget me.

Dear good Santa,
I love you when you smile till the wrinkles show. I saw you at the Christmas tree at the hospital last Christmas, and I was one of the lame children that sang for you. I can’t walk yet. The Dr. said an old fly lit on me when I was five years old and gave me paralysis.
Please sir send me an automobile, so that I can ride on the pretty road in front of our house. I thought of asking you for a billy goat, b my uncle is a minister and says he can’t feed me and a billy too in these war times. My papa use to take me on his engine and I would ring the bell, but he is dead now. I am nine years old and go to school on my crutches. I started in Sept. and I am writing this myself. I hope you will never have to be put to sleep, or wear a plaster caste, or have four bricks tied to each foot. My uncle takes the State and I saw your picture.
My eyes are brown, my cheeks are red and I am happy as a lark, and will laugh all over my fave if you send the auto.
Your little boy,
Richard Victor Atkins.
Danielsville, Ga.
Dec. 8 1914

Trio, S. C.
Dec. 11, 1914.
Dear Santa Claus:
I’m a little girl five years old, and I try awful hard to be good.
I shall be glad if you will bring me a nice, large doll, doll carriage, tea set, story book with pretty pictures, also some oranges, apples, bananas, nuts, raisins, and candy, Now Santa, please don’t forget me,
Your little friend,
Mary Graham.

North S. C.
Dec. 12, 1914.
Dear Santa:
I am a little boy six years old. I will write and tell you what I want you to bring me Xmas. I want a train and a depot, a fleet of ships, a pair of driving gloves.
I also have a little brother one year old. I want you to bring him a wagon and anything else you think he will like. I will be satisfied with these, for I know the times are hard. Will close.
Your little friend
William Warren Livingston.

Columbia, S. C.
December 19, 1914.
Dear Santa,
I am a little girl eight years old and in the third at school. I want a doll trunk, a Bible, a pencil box with a key, some new shoes and socks for my doll, and a box of candy. I want three packages of firecrackers, some torpedoes and orange and apples.
Your little girl
Louise Kingman
2510 Preston street.

Fort Lawn, S. C.
December 7th, 1914.
My dear Santa Claus: –
I am a little boy 8 years old. And I want you to bring me a train that runs round on a round track. And bring me some fire crackers and roman candles and tarpedoes and sky rockets, also some baloone’s. And I want some nuts, apples, oranges and candy and other fruit. Bring my little sister Virginia a big doll and carriage. Also a piano and a ring. And bring her some little fire crackers, and lots of fruit and candy.
I am going to be a good little boy study my lessons hard. And I am going to look for you Xmas night. So be very carefull when you pass through Europe, and don’t get killed in the war.
Your little friend,
Leonidas Roddey.

Dear Santa Claus,
I am a little four years old. I want you to bring me a doll, a doll carriage, doll trunk, a little doll piano, a teaset, a table, and some fruit.
Your little girl
Dollie Kingman
Columbia, S. C. Dec. 19, 1914
2510 Preston st.

Other letters from:
Beulah Carpenter, Florence, S. C.
Mary Elizabeth Coleman, Fairfax, S. C.
Sadie Lide, North, S. C.
Mary Martin.
Virginia DuRant, Elliott, S. C.
Catherine Bean, Springfield, S. C.
David Ramsay, Sumter, S. C.
Margret W. Courtney, Trenton, S. C.
Lewis M. Ashbill, Ridge Spring, S. C.
William Ruth Ellis, Furman, S. C.
Bert Gunter, Leesville, S. C.
Mary Monroe, Leesville, S. C.
Blanding Holman, Batesburg, S. C.
Marion Bates Holman, Batesburg, S. C.
Jodie Daniels.
Nevis Truluck, Cowards, S. C.
Thomas Parnell, Blairs, S. C.
Pauline Ballenger, Walhalla, S. C.
Francis Ellis, Zion, S. C.
Effie Anne Evans, Dillon, S. C.
Nora Broughton, Pinewood, S. C.
Alice Delancy Parker, Lake City. S. C.
Alvin Prosser, Leo, S. C.
Deleon Prosser, Leo, S. C.
Hazel Daniel, Mullins, S. C.
Ralph Henry Smith, Glenn Springs, S. C.
Sidney H. Smith, Glenn Spring, S. C.
Loyd Gregory, Glenn Spring, S. C.
Tootsie Boughton, Pinewood, S. C.
Floride Smith, Belton, S. C.
Mary Ellen Asbell, Ridge Spring, S. C.
Ralph Satterfield, Belton, S. C.
Ruth Tollison, Belton, S. C.
Hermon Tollison, Belton, S. C.
Prymis Strickland, Belton, S. C.
Mae Kay, Belton, S. C.
Warren Derrick, Summerton, S. C.
Mary Derrick, Summerton, S. C.
David Derrick, Summerton, S. C.
William Haltiwanger, Batesburg, S. C.
Edward W. Rushton, Springfield, S. C.
Katherine Fuller, Mountville, S. C.
Annie Fuller, Mountsville, S. C.
Remsen Bouknight, Latta, S. C.
Robert W. Smith.
Harold Fuller, Waterloo, S. C.
Tom Etheredge, Batesburg, S. C.
Annie Byrd, Suffolk, Va.
Landon Carroll, Clemson College, S. C.
Amanda Bowen, Blaney, S. C.
Samuel Eugene Miller, Glenn Springs, S. C.
Paul Cathcart, Glenn Springs, S. C.
Lannie M. Taylor, Glenn Springs, S. C.