I have never written to you before, so you don’t know my name.  Papa is on the school committee, so you sent him a sample copy.  I saw it, and was very much interested in it.  I am extremely fond of reading and have read at least ten different histories.  And with one exception I like your little book best of all.  You can imagine how well I like to read when I tell you I am eleven years old, and have read over seven hundred prose books, and the books of ten different poets.  I could read primary lessons when I was three years old.

Yours truly,
Eleanor J.L.

P.S.—­I am going to earn money so I can subscribe. 
Newburyport, mass., Sept. 7th, 1897.

DEAR ELEANOR: 

We are delighted to hear from you, and to have the indorsement of such a bright little critic as you must be after all that you have read.

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Editor.

Dear editor: 

Your little magazine is of great interest to me, as I am sure it is to many others.  I am especially interested in the accounts you give of the search for the North Pole.  I do hope that soon somebody will succeed in reaching it, so as to tell us just what kind of a region it is.

I hope that the Cubans will soon gain their liberty for I
think they surely deserve it.

Wishing the great Round World great success, and a long
life, I remain,

Your most devoted reader,
Alison H.

Brewster, Cape cod, mass., Sept. 7th, 1897.

DEAR ALISON: 

Many thanks for your nice kind letter, and for the good wishes contained in it.  Editor.