Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 2, issue 22.
October 27th – November 9th, 1954.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

 A letter from Jennifer Goleby, Eye, Suffolk.
Dear Miss Blyton,
I am sending you a lavender stick I made you during the Summer holidays, with my love. Enclosed is 8s. 6d. for your Blind Children which I made from selling lavender sticks.
With love from,
Jennifer Goleby (Sunbeam).

(What a lovely idea, Jennifer, and how beautifully you made the sticks. Thank you so much for sending me one.)

A letter from Ian Ban Lee, Malaya.
Dear Miss Blyton,
I am going to tell you about a friend of mine who is very fond of birds and animals. Don’t you think he should join the Busy Bees? In his house he keeps two dogs, two magpies, one cuckoo and two monkeys. He either bought them from cruel owners or picked them up on the roadside. He treats his pets so well that his nephews envy them.
I hope I have not bothered you as you are very busy.
Yours sincerely,
Ian Ban Lee.

(You have not bothered me at all, Ian. How kind your friend must be.)

A letter from Jennifer Aylward, Pinner.
Dear Enid Blyton,
We have a dear little robin who comes every morning and taps on the window. He’s very tame, and we can almost feed him by hand.
Love from,
Jennifer Aylward.

(We have a robin like yours too, Jennifer. It’s lovely to tame a wild bird, isn’t it?)

A letter from Rosalind Mallock, Shenfield.
Dear Enid Blyton,
Last night my tooth came out, so I put it under my pillow for the fairies to change for 6d. But when I looked for the sixpence all I found was a sleepy wasp under my  pillow – so Mummy says a BAD fairy must have put it there!
Love from,
Rosalind Mallock.

(That was bad luck, Rosalind. I hope somebody exchanged the wasp for you !)

Four letters this week, perhaps to make up for there only being two last week. And one all the way from Malaya – which then was British Malaya, and then became part of Malaysia after gaining independence.

A wee bit of bribery from Jennifer Goleby, there, sending Blyton a gift? Maybe lots of children did that, and it just didn’t normally get mentioned.

Although I would hate to find a wasp under my pillow I love Rosalind’s letter, and the fact she just had to share her story with her favourite author. I’m glad it was a sleepy wasp and not an alert and angry one otherwise it wouldn’t have been such a funny story.