Martha's 1 & 1/2 cents

(1971 May 4)

I have something so funny to tell you. You aren't the only one who can solve a puzzle - tho my little story is not original, I'm sure, and Daddy would say, "Oh, didn't you know that before?" Yet it came new to me and this is how I discovered it.

You know how much trouble it is coping with these presidents on stamps - so I thot I would salt them away for a while in the vertical file you made and tackle them all at once some time, maybe when you were here. So I made a list of the presidents all in due order, with Washington No. 1, Adams 2, Jefferson 3, etc. - as an index; then numbered and named the file pages "(1) Washington" etc. Then I was ready to stash them away.

This Presidential Issue is always popping up in batches I soak; so I started in on them. All of a sudden, I realized the 1 cent green Washington, 2 cent rose Adams, 3 cent purple Jefferson indicated by their denominations their turns at the Presidency! Not a word about this in Scott, but terribul clevah! How about that!!!