Dear Mister Ward

<p class=ql-align-justify>Before there was Yelp Facebook or Twitter there were formal complaints departments.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Dear Mister Ward is a collection of letters sent by customers to the complaints department of the St Paul Minnesota catalog office of Montgomery Ward & Co between 1932 and 1942.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Hilarious weird and occasionally heartbreaking the letters reveal the integral role Montgomery Ward played in the lives of those who wrote them.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Touching on topics that include fashion relationships technology loneliness debt and toilet paper they provide a glimpse at the daily lives and preoccupations of rural Americans from the peak of the Great Depression into the early days of World War II.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Transcribed by Verna Gregg the correspondent who preserved them the letters are presented with introductions by her grandson Evan Gregg.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p>Sample letters and more information can be found at www.dearmisterward.com</p>