Previous letters pages can be found here.
Letters page from Volume 2, issue 25.
December 8th – 21st, 1954.
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LETTER PAGE
A letter from Gwendolyn Attoe, Hellesdon, Norwich.
Dear Enid Blyton,
My brother is only six years old, and he can read out every word properly from your magazines. He is really a little gentleman, and I will tell you why I call him that. It is because he is going to let me be the first to join your club as —
Gwendolyne Attoe
A letter from Jane Lloyd, Wolverhampton
Dear Enid Blyton,
After I had been having your magazine for a long time, I had a good idea. I first got all my magazines sorted out in dates, then I pasted the back of my first magazine on to the front of my second one, and so on, and this makes a lovely book when you have covered it. I keep on adding my new ones.
Love from
Jane
(I think this is such a good idea, Jane, that I am printing it for other readers to follow.)
Only space for two letters this week, and unfortunately only one-and-a-half have survived. The other side had a coupon or competition entry which has been clipped out, taking half of Gwendolyn’s letter with it. So we may never know why her brother is letting her be the first to join the club.
I’m not sure I entirely approve of Jane gluing her magazines together. You would lose all the front covers for a start! But I bet she never thought that seventy years later adult collectors would be buying up the magazines.



Not sure if this information is of any use, but when I was attending the big annual collectors fayres at the Birmingham NEC, a few years back, there were frequently stalls selling large amounts of book and magazine collectables.
Enid Blyon’s Magazine was very prominent on some of these stalls, and I do remember that a number of them were run by businesses (secondhand book shops and curio shops) based in or near Oxford. And I seem to also recall one being based in Hay-on-Wye.
If you are still interested in obtaining copies of the magazine, some of these businesses have (or had at one time) a presence on the internet.
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