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Letters page from Volume 2, issue 26.
December 22nd, 1954 – January 4th, 1955.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

A letter from Mrs. Hardy, Wrose, Shipley.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I hope you will not object to a mother writing to your Magazine Club. I want to tell you about my daughter Andrea, who belongs to it. (No. 21816.) She has been such a good girl. I have been in hospital and she has looked after Daddy and Graham, who is six years old. Andrea is only eight, but she got up and made the breakfast, and after school she made the tea, cleaned Daddy’s shoes and did all the washing-up so that Daddy could come and visit me. She also cooked delicious buns and biscuits without any help. Andrea does not know that I am writing this.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Lilian Hardy.

(Thank you, Mrs. Hardy. I am delighted to hear about a child who is so worthy of our Badge, and shows it in such a fine way. I am sending her my prize, although you wrote the letter. She deserves it!)

A letter from Ruth, Robert and Alison Shinwell, London, N.W.2.
Dear Enid Blyton,
We are sending you 10 shillings for your Children’s Home. Every time we had our work right at school Mummy gave us a penny. Love from,
Ruth, Robert and Alison Shinwell.

(You are very kind-and you must be very hard-working too!)

Dear Enid Blyton,
I have received your lovely badge and I am very proud of it. When I got it I was ill in bed and I wore it on my dressing-gown, and immediately felt better. Thank you very much.
Love from,
Susan Mary Griffiths.

(The badge must have a little magic in it, Susan. I hope it has!)

Another letter from a mother, this week. Mothers always seem to preface their letters with ‘I hope you don’t mind a mother writing’ or words to that effect, obviously they haven’t seen Blyton’s comment that lots of mothers do write in, or where she has published their letters.

While I’m all for children having jobs around the house and taking on age-appropriate responsibilities I think it’s a little sad that when mum is in hospital an eight year old has to step up and make breakfast and tea for her father and brother. But that’s the 1950s for you, I suppose.

A little maths for Ruth, Robert and Alison’s letter – 10 shillings was 120 pennies, or 40 pennies each if they were equal in their abilities to get their work right!