History Connections. It's all about Letters!
This week’s blog is all about The Letter. These artefacts are all from the KVHS collection and are significant to the Kiewa Valley, due to their connection with letters written by people who lived in our remote town being Tawonga and then later on Mt Beauty. Letters were written with an ink pen then dipped in ink stored in an ink well. Letters could be about business as seen here or personal letters to friends or family. Letters would have been taken via horse and wagon to the General Store Post Office in Tawonga. Houses and farms did not have letter boxes, but the town's resident's had their own personal postal box at the General Store. In 1911 it cost one penny to buy a stamp to post letters anywhere in Australia then delivered by Cobb and Co horse drawn carriage.
