Famous People Autographs

[Janet]

Originally Posted by rivermom

I don't have any, I guess I don't get out much.

Not famous, but very special to me just the same. I have an "autograph book" which most of us know today as "year books" that belonged to my Great Grandmother when she graduated high school back in the 1800's.

It's amazing because most of the year books we read today say things like "Hi Dude, have a cool summer". Yet in my Great Gradmothers autograph book/year book" it says things like "Let your life be like a snow flake, touching so many but never leaving a mark". It's all lined in red velvet that reads autographs on it, aging brownish pages, and all the writings are in fancy penmanship.

That would be such a treasure to have. After my father-in-law passed, we got a lot of this things. I have letters his mother had written to him when he was young and in the service, her diary, and some things he had written.

I just love how back then they wrote with such elegance. I guess true letter writing must be a lost art.