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Letters page from Volume 2, issue 18.
September 1st – 14th, 1954.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

 A letter from Pat Hemming, R.A.F. Station, St. Athan.
Dear Enid Blyton,
Last year in the summer a little hedgehog came to visit us. Every night we put some milk out for it, and every night he came and drank it. In the winter months didn’t see him again, so we waited until it was time for him to awake from hibernating. A few days ago we saw him again, drinking the cat’s milk in a saucer.
Yours,
Pat Hemming (A Busy Bee)

(A well-written and interesting letter, Pat. You win the letter prize!)

Part of a letter from Mary Bowles, Loftus.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I read your magazine. Best of all I like the News-Page and your Letter. I love that! Those three things make me feel closer to those who read our magazine and who work for our three Societies.
Yours sincerely,
Mary Bowles.

(I know exactly what you mean, Mary. It is the News-Sheet and the Letter that makes us all friends together they are what I like best too!)

A letter from Joyce Craggs
Dear Enid Blyton,
My friends and I who are members of the F.F. Club have been exchanging our “Fives” books with one another, at the price of a penny for each book. In this way we have made the sum of two shillings and sixpence for your Children’s Home. We all love reading about the little children on the News-Sheet in your magazine.
Yours sincerely,
Joyce Craggs

(Your letter contained such a good idea, Joyce, that I had to print it in case other children liked to follow it. Well done!)

A nice letter from Pat, but obviously they didn’t know in the 50s that milk is  bad for hedgehogs!

Interesting that Mary’s letter was cut down – that’s the first time I’ve seen that on a letters page. Perhaps Mary’s letter was a very long one, too long to be printed.

Lastly, I do like the idea in Joyce’s letter. You’d have to increase it quite a bit to make it worthwhile now – one inflation calculator suggests that 1p would now be worth 35p today. Even at 50p it’s still affordable for most children and the money could go to a good cause, even if Blyton’s specific charities are no longer running.