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From: "Helen Swan" <>
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 06:18:42 +0200
References: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0105062200260.14245-100000@strauss.udel.edu> <3AF60860.BD35C66@ix.netcom.com> <036001c0d69f$be559dc0$37331718@hwrd1.md.home.com>


The bank still addresses statements to my son of 21 as Master Kirkland !
much to his annoyance
But then, this is the Colonies

Kind Regards
Helen Swan
South Africa

----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Dinwoodie <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"


> A bit off color, perhaps, but...
> In 1959 or thereabouts in Illinois, there was a teacher
> who addressed all of his students as Master or Miss.
> We held our collective breath as the time came to call
> the roll for Arthur Bader. The instructor conferred upon
> him the title of Mister and continued without pause.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary Richardson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"
>
>
> > 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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