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From: Mary Richardson <>
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:28:48 -0400
References: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0105062200260.14245-100000@strauss.udel.edu>


Crawford MacKeand wrote:

> Similarly, does anyone else remember seeing mail addressed to Master John
> Jones?? I think that died about WW2, but it was still fairly common in the
> 1930s as an address for a young son, usually one under age about ten.

I was taught to address mail to young boys this way, and I was raised in the sixties.  I still use "Master" this way -- call me
old-fashioned I guess.

Mary Richardson

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