1977 

Dear Santa:

My name is Derek Zane Gill, and I live by Robin. I would like a piggy bank. I would get my money and save my tithing. I also want a bike with two wheels. I would like blue the best. Santa, you make us very happy with you candy and toys. I think all of us should go to school. 

Love, Derek

Dear Santa,

My name is Heath Peterson, I don’t remember what I got last year, but I don’t want it again.

Love Heath

Dear Santa,

My name is Dustin Smith and I live down the street. I want anything that you will bring me. I’m glad that you are so kind. I would like to give everyone a new church house.

Love Dusty

Dear Santa,

My name is Matt Tubbs. I’d like a cap rifle and a cap pistol and a play knife. I would like something else but I can’t think of what it was, so that’s all. 

Bye, Matt

Dear Santa,

My name is Robin Alder, I’d like a Baby Burp, You put a diaper on your shoulder and pat her on the back and she burps. I like you cuz you give us toys. I don’t know my address, but I live on the right side of the street in Malad, Idaho.

Love Robin

Dear Santa,

My name is Johanna Keller, and I’d like a baby alive and a wonder woman Barbie and a Baby Burp. I have a brother and he wants a Snoop. I like you because we tell you to bring us toys and I liked the apple you put in my stocking. I’m Heathers third next door neighbor I also want a Baby this and that and a Baby That a Way and a picnic basket and a stroller.

Love Johanna

Dear Santa,

I want a good grief glider and a Kenner life like Milky and a Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper Salon.

Terry Davis

(Some of the above letters to Santa were tape recorded by Nola Thomas in her kindergarten class, then transcribed.)

Dear Santa,

My name is Stephen Marble, and I live on Bannock Street and we have a chimney for you to come down. I don’t know if you’ll burn your beard. I want a jeep that has a top that comes off when you first get it is and olden type cart, when you take off the top it is a hunting jeep and when you take off everything else it is just a plain jeep. I also want an Evel Kanevel and a 6,000,000 Dollar man. I like you cuz you give us toys or candy or what every else we wish for. I think the world would like a whole bunch of love notes.

Love, Stephen

Dear Santa,

Please bring me a chutes Away game, hot wheels, some new cowboys boots. That’s all my Mom say I can have.

Todd Thomas

Dear Santa,

Please bring me a Baby giggles. She really laughs. I would like a vacume cleaner to clean up after you leave. Your whiskers tickled when you kissed me under the tree.

Nacona Lewis

Dear Santa,

How are you? Can I have a picture of an elf?

Evan

Dear Santa,

Please bring me a kitchen set and a baby hold. My dad made me a fireplace for my stocking. Please fill it for me. You forgot my stocking last year.

Thanks, Lisa Anderson

Dear Santa,

Thancku for the toys last-yire. I want a doll. And a koolade maker. And som playdoow. And a bodoll of prfyoom.

Love, Janna

Dear Santa.

I want a doll. And a dollcadl. And a babybrp. Sum 48 crayola. And a hoelyhobavan. 

Love, Kimberly

Dear Santa,

I want a jump rope and a boseball.

Love Doug

Dear Sata,

Hoae are you deing? Thacyou for the towes last yir. This crismus I wlot a Bike with to traneingwils I wihc you A happ cismus luf Satucls.

David J.

1978

Dear Santa,

Will you please bring me a trampleing and a recd and a diere and a gtar and a doll and a brebe.

Your frnde, Marla Nielsen

Dear Santa,

I hop you can come I want a match box set and a kittecat snowmobile. Thank you for the toyes you brot me last yir.

Your frend Shawn

Dear Santa Klas

I want a new boiski with too wheels. Please. An can I have a new doll. Please? And a sleed. I live west and trn on the left and whene you get to smerua trn rit. I am Shelly Donn Tubbs. And I want a pueno and a gitor.

I love you, Shelly Tubbs

Dear Santa

How are you and your wife doing. And roodoff. if your not sick. I want twenty toys for christmas this year.

Tod D

Dear Santa,

I want a Deth Star spase stashin, attansolo man, a chewbocka, a luke skywalker, a mikronot collection a new telephone, a gatar and a puppy,. If you giv me a puppy be sher to giv me dog food. I want a big wheel and a Barbie doll for Leslie. 

Love, Parley Jones.

Dear Santa,

My list. I want a bean bag chair. Air hocky game. Foot ball aqitmant. A pellit gun. A good Christmas. 

From Lance

Dear Santa, 

I want a BB Gun this year most of all I like a lote of things but I can’t afford all the things I want I all so like BBs to go with my BB gun and a power control r-2C-2 and 36-pro and a star wars x wing filter and chbuka and a max machine and a woshntor football helmet and a bike. 

Sinde Justin Brent Moon.

Dear Santa, 

Is it cold at the north pole? How is Mrs. Santa Is any of the reindeer sick. I want a radio for Christmas And I want a lay an egg game for Christmas to. 

From Shane Howard

Dear Santa, 

I want a Barbie and a Susin family and I want a Barbe house and I want a swimming pool for my Barbie and I want Mis. Ward to take some nice pils. 

from Leslie

Dean Santa Claus,

I have been to the North pole to see you but you was not there and neither was your raindeer but I saw a red light it was rudolff and I saw Mrs. Santa Claus but she was in bed and she looked ill. I went to go see her but when I got there she was doing the dishes. My sister is looking for another horse every year. I love you.

Love Molly

Dear Santa,

I have been a pretty good boy. I want a Tuff Stuff Play Saw and a Milky the Marvelous Milking Cow, a Winnie-the-Pooh Talking Phone, and a Tree Tots treehouse.

Love Ernest Palmer

Dear Santa,

I hop you can com to my hose and I want hop-hop and I want a cowboy at and I want guns and holster and I want a pistl and I want vest and I want rifl.

I Love You

Leland Ward

Dear Santa,

I want a kit tys snow ball

I want green drocken

I baskit boll

I long roger mask

I gun over the longro jer

I lnog ran jen sewt

My friend

Wayne Thomas

Dear Santa,

Please, please, bring me a snow mobile, Artec cat, and a snow sled. Please bring them to Don Gibbs in Mald and yes my little sister want 2 dolls and one doll that walks.

I like you

Anthony Don Gibbs

Dear Santa,

This time I would like a bike and the game of states. And I would like to have the game pay day. And I would like some candy to eat and I would like some more toys.

from  Ivan Jensen

Dear Santa,

How are you I am fine. Have you made very many toys this year.

I wanted about six things but I can only have three things. Because I am going on a trip. All I want is fuzzy pumper and a new watch and I wanted a doll the one I wanted is princes leily and that is all. 

How is Miss Class doing tell her I am fine.

On Christmas night I will leave you some cookies and milk. I hop you lilh orieoes. Allwiss on Christmas night I always read Iwas the night before Christmas. We are going to get are Christmas tree. I can’t wait tell Christmas eve. All my friends can’t wait evether. We love you santa because you always bring us lots of toys. Tell you Elves Hello for me.

Love Jana Treasure

Dear Santa,

I whont a practis set of bonwen warose, and a night gloe race track, and a pear of skeghs.

Love Shawn Dale Davis

Dear Santa,

I like you I wont a ganycash gator and a satl, brital, sled, boots, book, dish set, dram set, 7 gany cash records, 3 roy rogers records, a rew sowt with a hors pathch on the shrt, ir ring, gluves.

Leila

Dere Santa

I wont a new ras car and a x wing filter in larg and a toy filter with loke sky walker thavater and I am in sikant grad and my tecer is mis Morgaon.

Layne Nalder

Dear Santa

I want Rosie and the holehobe dish set. I am in school and I do Eglish and math and art. We do reading and I am in 2 grade misses Morgen is my teather. Merry crismas santa?

Kathy Madsen

Dear Santa,

I whant a oven and a doll and it is a small wold rackerd I am in my school I like Christmas very much I even wish you cuid be here I love you very very much. 2nd grad I am seven.

From Shannon Daniels

Dear Santa,

I like you Santa.

I want you to come.

 want you to come Santa.

I want a frog.

Love, Paul

Dear Santa,

I want a fashion photo P.J. But mom said thy don’t make them this year if you don’t get a P.J. done. I want a fashion photo Barbie. And I want a pink and white dress. The Tweety Pie dolly you gave me last year and the Kathy Quick-Curl doll need some new clothes. Tweety Pie and Kathy need slipers shoes and socks and nightgowns. Christy need some baby clothes because Mom needs her baby clothes for the baby. She gave them all to Chrisy.

Love Krishele Willie

Dear Santa,

I have been babtized and all my bad sins have been threwed away so I can’t do no more bad things. I want a raceing track and a cud scout suit and Amy set. and a map to studdle and more.

Love, 

Torrey Christophersen

Dear Santa,

How are you I hope that your OK. And what I want for Christmas is a pair of boots and a mit and some creepy crallers.

This year in Primary my class is putting on the play Roudoff the red nosed raindear. I have to be an elf. I wanted to be santa but I was not quiet as tall as Pam. So I turned out to be an elf. But I guess an elf is better tan anything well hope to see ya.

Love you, Gia Beth Thorpe

Dear Santa,

I love you. I want a Baby wet and care.

Love Stephanie Ward

Dear Santa,

Thanks for the big wheel last year. Is the weather good at the north pole.

I’d like a cowboy shirt and an eraser.

I live by my Grandma Deschamps. My Mom’s name is Paula Morby.

I’ll leave you a note that says I love you and thank you.

Love, Justin

Dear Santa,

When our new baby comes I’ll help dad with the food. He likes to eat. 

All I want for Christmas is…Baby Wet and Care.

Love, Kami

Dear Santa,

Thank you for my dolly My Friend Mandy and my ironing board. 

Will Rudolph guide your sleigh this year?

This year I want Fuzzy Pumper Malt Shop and 3 colors of playdough and Tuesday Tailor and some clothes and furniture.

You go straight down the hill, till you cross the RR tracks then go straight and then theres some hills but I don’t live there I live by my Grandma.

I’ll leave you some candy when you come.

Love, Heidi