MYSTERY IN THE MAIL

       This just came - a letter-size envelope, entirely blank on both front and back, except for a label.  The nonprofit postage is printed on the label, not the envelope.  Inside is only a booklet, no letter, no note.  The 4 1/4" by 6 3/4" booklet is really cool, printed in 2022, containing the Declaration of Independence, a Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, and the Virginia Declaration of Rights, all with an introduction by Lonnie G. Bunch III, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.  Obviously this Smithsonian Edition booklet is from the Smithsonian Institute, because we recently subscribed to Smithsonian magazine but haven't received our first issue yet.  That's not the mystery, once we opened the envelope.

       The mystery is the address.  It's our address all right, but below my name it says: BOTTOM LEFT OF THE RIGHT PAGE.  I know where this is from, but how did the Smithsonian get it as part of my address?

       I've collected all six issues of the "Mighty Mouse Fun Club" comic books, published in the 1950s, and when I was a kid I was the president of the local Mighty Mouse Fun Club chapter that met in our garage in Blaine WA.  On pages 14 and 15 of the last issue of these comics is a list of the Club members, and my name is printed at the BOTTOM LEFT OF THE RIGHT PAGE.  Explain that.  I'm flattered that the prestigious Smithsonian Institute identifies me as a member of the 1950s Mighty Mouse Fun Club, and now wonder if this will appear on the labels of all the magazines we receive.  I imagine so.