Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 3, issue 2.
January 19th – February 1st, 1955.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

A letter from Pararajasingham, Colombo, Ceylon.
Dear Enid Blyton,
At our school we have a Club, which is made up by seven young lads. We have a meeting at a secret place every Friday. We have games, puzzles, stories on that day. We also have a library which holds almost all your books. We are still going on happily, by having a jolly time.
Yours sincerely,
Pararajasingham.

(Thank you very much for your interesting letter. Perhaps some day I will visit your lovely country.)

A letter from Frances Flowerday, Durban, S.A.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I had ten silkworms which are now changed into cocoons. Each moth will lay about 100 eggs, so don’t you think it would be a good idea to sell these at the rate of 100 for a shilling, and give the money to the Busy Bees? We have changed the name of our Cast (of which I am leader) to Green Meadows Cast, as we all love that story.
With best wishes from,
Frances Flowerday.

(I enjoyed your letter very much, Frances. I hope you can sell the eggs.)

A letter from Margaret Heywood, Radcliffe.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I am the winner of our magazine Birthday Cake. Thank you very much for it and for the letter you sent me. It is a very beautiful cake and I am very proud of it. I am going to save the icing-badge to remember it by. Thank you very much.
With lots of love, from
Margaret Heywood.

(It is always nice when a child has good manners and writes a thank-you letter. I am pleased with yours, Margaret.)

I always like to see letters from around the world and this week there’s one all the way from Ceylon – now called Sri Lanka. I wonder how many Enid Blyton inspired clubs there were around the world at any one time? I particularly like the bit where they meet somewhere so secret even Blyton isn’t allowed to know!

Not only the first letter has come a long way, but the second one, too. This one’s from South Africa. I read Blyton’s response to the second letter before the letter itself, and naturally my mind went to hen’s eggs. I was rather surprised to see a letter about silkworms (I hadn’t looked at the illustration yet either!). I’m not entirely sure what the average person would do with 100 silkworm eggs, though. I suppose the buyer could hatch 100 silkworms who would lay 1,000 eggs, and then sell those eggs…

I assume the Cast referred to in the second letter is a club of some kind, but does anyone know what a Cast refers to, more specifically?

The last letter (which has only travelled from near Manchester) has me questioning the Magazine Birthday Cake. I suspect all will be have been explained in one of the editorials previously. A cake to celebrate the magazine’s second birthday? Lucky Margaret getting a cake and letter from Blyton, anyway!