Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 3, issue 14.
July 6th – 19th, 1955.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

 (I have chosen three letters from overseas this time so that our far-away readers may know that they can share this page too.)

A letter from Joyce Simmers and the other four members of her F.F. Club, S. Canterbury, New Zealand.
Dear Enid Blyton,
A short while ago my four friends and I held a small sale to raise money for your little Children’s Home. We sold dolls’ clothes, toffee apples, books and magazines and home-made sweets, and we had a Peep-Show and charged a penny a peep. To our amazement and delight we found we had raised £2 10S. 0d., which we are forwarding to you.
Yours sincerely,
Joyce Simmers,
and the four other F.F. Club members.

(I wanted our F.F. members in this country to know what F.F. members do overseas, Joyce, so I have printed your letter. You win the prize this week!)

A letter from Maureen Brooks, Helmond, Holland.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I am a Scottish girl living in Holland, where they make much more fuss of birthdays than in England. At school here you take a bag of sweets on your birthday. Every one in your class gets a sweet, and then you take two or three of your friends with you to the other classes, and in each class you give the teacher and some of your friends a sweet.
With love from
Maureen Brooks.

(I think this sounds rather nice, Maureen – especially if there happens to be a lot of birthdays !)

A letter from Rajindar, Dar-es-Salaam.
Dear Enid Blyton,
The other day when I went to the book-shop, I saw a little girl looking at the books. She saw my F.F. badge and asked me what it was for. I told her all about it and she wanted to be a member. I’ve given the F.F. address to 68 girls and they all wish to be members.
Yours sincerely,
Rajindar.

(No wonder our F.F. membership goes up, Rajindar. Good luck to
you!)

A theme this week of letters from over-seas, of which I’m sure she received a great many.

Joyce’s letter perhaps reads a little differently today as modern use of peep show generally means something far less innocent.

I’m a fan of Holland’s sweet sharing traditions on birthdays, it sounds fun!

And Rajindar sounds like they did good work, drumming up lots of new members for the Famous Five Club!