This sweet note from a father to his young daughter was hiding in a book at Harvard Book Store
Now the woman who found it wants to return it to its family.
Some used books may be marked with scribbles in the margins, but one at the Harvard Book Store held a more personal note.
On Wednesday night, Harvard Book Store reposted a story on Facebook from Erica Bishop, who said that when she was browsing the used book section at the Harvard Square shop on Memorial Day, a note from a father to his 5-year-old fell out.
https://www.facebook.com/harvardbookstore/posts/10154582408933488
The letter is from a year ago, dated June 9, 2015, and appears to be addressed to the little girl for her birthday. It starts out, “Well, now you are five. Isn’t that something? Five!”
Bishop wrote that the letter “was very sweet, talks about what she likes and is doing these days, and seems like something he does every year, as it ends, ‘Until next year, love from your DA.’”
The letter fell out of a book on John Lennon, Bishop wrote. Part of the letter mentions that they moved from either Ireland or Iceland, she said, in case that helps identify the family. Bishop said that she made the post public to see if it could help reunite the letter with the father and daughter around the girl’s sixth birthday.
Updated 6/9/2016 at 1:33 p.m.: An earlier version of this piece contained an embedded Facebook post from the Harvard Book Store. That post no longer appears on the Harvard Book Store’s Facebook page.
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