Labels:text | newspaper | screenshot | letter OCR: TRAVEL Noel Barber, Maxine Hong Kingston and Arthur touched the lives of so many ordinary people, from Hailey having been guests at one time or another. all over the world, who continue to send in memo- But aside from these celebrated guests, it is as- rabilia of the fabled hotel. tonishing how the 106-year-old hotel has also Ever since the Raffles Hotel reopened in Sep- Memorabilia tember 1991, the procession of visitors bearing donated in souvenirs and response to the memorabilia hotel's ongoing to the hotel's BUTLER NORDS world wide museum and heritage search the flood of letters detail- ing fond mem- ories of the hotel have ste- adily rolled in. Aurler BAFFLES HOTE "I am still receiving letters almost everyday and GRILL mostly they contain an item of interest. And very often, the information or item received tells us something new about the life at the hotel over the years," says Gretchen Liu, archivist for the renaissance of Raffles Hotel and curator of its museum. "It is amazing," she exclaims. "For example, we HOTEL received a rare illustrated 1905 brochure from a Mrs Barbara Helfert of Austin, Texas, USA, which
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