Reading this letter made me conscious about many things that Rexford was able to share. It caught me off guard because him saying “Speaking for myself, at least, they have served to add several cubits to the stature of my knowledge regarding the good old U.S.A.”
For this one particular one, although he had lots of knowledge about US history as I had read on those letters I already shared. He made me aware the teacher became the student, which was a reversed role. Unexpected because I think of him as a teacher for me when it comes to stamp history. And the phrase reminded me we both became a student, and we only know little when it comes to a subject he was good at.
As a student of Huntsville, which this envelope was postmarked, he specifically said “little to me,” made me assumed he probably had to read the place history and whatever things was covered in that study, that made he learned recently.
People like him never stop learning, and I speak for this because for me, for example, I studied errors on paper money and coins. And along the way any kind of a hobby has so many layers, so even for me my learning never end and it continue to evolve.
Way back then it was the site of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center with the massive Saturn Rockets were made, and him mentioning Foxboro’s instrumentations was on all the three stages of the giant boosters. If he felt proudness, I do too, because they been part of the business evolutions.
On the third paragraph it carried so much weight history, and he did mentioned the word “Here,” which I assumed for him it was about exploration that he was not aware before statehood even happened.
Whatever was written on Foxboro’s mailing list, it was effective, and they caught people’s attention. That sounds like a survey from the mail, which I do not know in company’s nowadays still doing it or already forgot the power of suggestion.
