The writings of Charlie Tinker
Ronda Rich
Editor Note: This is the second installment of a three-part series. It is running over a five week period rather than three consecutive weeks.
Thirty notebooks in pristine condition lay about me on the bed in Los Angeles after my husband had surprised me with the diaries of his great-great-grandfather, Charlie Tinker, a White House telegrapher who had been friends with President Abraham Lincoln.
Gingerly, I picked up the wonderments of history and found them to be in exceptional condition as though they were only a few decades old not a hundred and fifty years in age.
In precise hand-written script, each notebook was numbered and dated such as: No. 18, February 15, 1865 to May 19, 1865.
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