Exchange chain letter. Happy Day Quilt Block. Send pieced block, 5 copies, 3 names. US, 1935.

1. Mrs Clara Floring
     436 Thurlow St. Hinsdale Ills
2. Mrs Herman Schmidt
     410 So. Adams St Hinsdale Ills
3. Mrs A.L. Ellswarth
     402 E. Mitchel Salem Ills

            Happy Day quilt block chain
    Send your pieced block to name at
top of list. Leave that name off adding
your name & address to bottom of list.
   Make 5 copies of this letter & 5 copies of
paper pattern & send to 5 of your friends
who would like a quilt.
    If this chain is not broken you
will recieve 125 blocks. Send to those
interested and will continue this chain
please.
   Do not send [?] white block to friend

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one until you have recieved all.
If not interested send back to sender
(the name at bottom of list).

[below, inverted, in pencil]

Mabel Blenenger [?] Ellswarth

................................... [notes on paper patterns]...........................

[1. hexagon, 5 5/8 inch side to side diameter]
Cut this out of
unbleached muslin out
line your name & address
in color to match your block
do not sew to pieced block

(write this on each pattern)

[2. crude hexagon, 3 1/8 inch side to side diameter]
Center of
block made of
plain material
to match print

[3. crude hexagon with one side pointed, 3 3/8 side to side diameter]
Make
6 of these of
print material
Sew around center

Handwritten in ink on 8" x 6" ruled paper. With three annotated paper polygons, two hexagons and a hexagonal star. Envelope postmarked in Salem, Ill on Nov. 8, 1935. Addressed to Mrs. Frank Morgan, Martinsville, Illinois. No return address. Lines preserved. Provided by Richard S. Collingbourne. Part of ebay lot 3259421993 closing 12/10/03. Entered by DWV on 1/5/04.

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