The delightful account in the late Marylin Warnke's scrapbook offers insight into how much the modern era of journalism is similar to the 1950s and how much it has changed.

The 111-word letter was sent in May 1787 to Jacob Morris. Morris's 10-year-old granddaughter, Julia Kean, pasted it into a scrapbook about four decades later below a portrait of Washington.