This month, the St. Augustine Record republished a series of Letters to Santa printed in the St. Augustine Evening Record from December 1921. One of the letters came from little Eloise Malloy, whose father served as the First Assistant Keeper of the St. Augustine Light Station from December 1918 to January 1927, when he was promoted to Head Keeper. Eloise’s letter gives us a unique glimpse into a young child’s life at the St. Augustine Light Station. For a lonely little girl “Dear Santa Claus, I am a little girl 4 1/2 years old. I live on Anastasia Island, at the big lighthouse. I have no little girls to play with, so please Santi come and bring me some toys for my Christmas, a kiddy cart, a doll carriage, a large doll bed, and some nuts and candy. I am going to hang my stocking in the southeast chimney of our house and my daddy will keep the big light burning all Xmas night so you can find the right chimney, so please dear Santa, don’t forget your little lonesome friend. Eloise Ma...