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Joseph's Christmas Letters of Greeting

From 1902 to 1923 Joseph never failed to to send a Christmas letter of greeting to his co-workers in the Cocoa Works Magazine. In 1923 he wrote “In the wider world there is an increasing recognition that after all mankind is one and that which hurts one country ultimately hurts all. In our own little world here I think we have been realising more and more clearly that the things which unite us are greater than the things which divide. We have been increasingly conscious that the interests of each individual and each grade are bound up with the success of the whole, and in working together towards that end we have learned to know each other better and to respect each other more.