Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
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Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
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Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#2It was easier for me - I just needed to ring my parents and collect cash at the post office.
But I kept the tradition going - first telling mom and dad how I'm getting well along with studies!
Great times
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#3Timely post. My Father (80) is in the process of publishing a book titled "Dear Mom: Letters Home From a Diplomatic Courier 50 Years Ago."
Basically his Mother kept all the letters/postcards (~700) he sent home during his time traveling the World with the State Department. He recently began digitizing them to compile a book. It is almost a re-life Forest Gump story...a man in Moscow at the height of the cold war; being in Vietnam 6 years before the War and seeing the stage being set; camping in the Himalayas watching Chinese aggression against Buddhism; commenting on Black Churches being bombed in the South back home, etc...But really what is most striking is we think communication has changed so much in 50 years (internet, social media) but there is no doubt what we communicate is otherwise unchanged, like OP students requesting money in the middle ages.
For those with interest here are a few letters, interested to hear the reaction of anyone outside friends/family: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wudj58edm2fjqd9/AAAQuGGfqE61orF5a...
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#4I like how the kid butters him up a bit before just admitting that he's asking for beer money. Refreshingly honest.
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#5Ceres and Bacchus while he really meant Venus.
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#6We were tought in primary school how to write such telegrams in least possible words ..
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#7Is the link dead? I get a 404.
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#8Dear Dad, send money. Dad: 404
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#9As a kid, every time I tried to hoodwink my father into bogus school supplies expenses he would recite this joke about a medieval student sending a letter to his uneducated father.
After some platitudes similar to the ones in the article, the punchline was more or less like this (loses a bit in translation):
"Three books I have to buy: Marcus, Tullius and Cicero. At three royals each, nine royals I need".
The response was: "Marcus Tullius Cicero is one book. Here I send five royals, so you can send back two".
Re: Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages
#10Timely post. My Father (80) is in the process of publishing a book titled "Dear Mom: Letters Home From a Diplomatic Courier 50 Years Ago." Basically his Mother kept all the letters/postcards (~700) he sent home during his time traveling the World with the State Department. He recently began digitizing them to compile a book. It is almost a re-life Forest Gump story...a man in Moscow at the height of the cold war; bei…
man his writing is very addictive.
I hope you'll post about his book once it's out!! With all the noise out there, I hope it gets some serious attention.