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Letters page from Volume 3, issue 17.
August 17th – 30th, 1955.

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LETTER PAGE

 A letter from from Margaret Edwards, Prospect, Okehampton.
Dear Miss Blyton,
When I read the story of the Dolls’ House Exhibition in your magazine I wanted to do the same. So I made a Dolls’ House Show and have collected 18 pennies for the Blind Children. Mummy has bought stamps, so I am sending them to you. I do like reading your magazine and the Noddy books, and I have your Book of the Year, too.
Love from
Margaret Edwards.

(Thank you Margaret! I didn’t think that my story about the Dolls’ House Exhibition would result in someone else having one too! As you are not very old, I am really proud of you.)

A letter from Menevia Scone, Pembroke Dock.
Dear Miss Blyton,
I live in a flat and have not got a proper garden, so Mummy has made me one on a big marble wash-stand, and I think it is more fun than a real garden! I collected stones from the seashore to make the rockery and it was great fun mixing cement and filling match-
boxes for steps and paths. It really is a lovely little garden.
Love from
Menevia Scone.

(What a very good idea, Menevia! I wonder if anyone else has a garden like yours.)

A letter from Helen Campbell (Captain), Markinch, Fife.
Dear Enid Blyton,
My Club and myself held a sale in my shed at the back of the house. We also acted a play called “Meet the Johnsons” which I made up myself. During the winter I made kettle-holders and mats and other things, and sold some of them to my aunts and friends who could not come to the sale. The sale was great fun, and when it was over we counted the money and found that we had made £6. Please accept this money and send it to your little Children’s Home.
With lots of love from
Helen Campbell
(Captain, F.F. Member and Busy Bee)
and all our members.

(My warm congratulations, Helen! You must have a fine Club of nine members, and be very proud of it.)

I wonder how old Margaret was, and just what a Doll’s house exhibition entails? I’ll have to look at the magazine – it was in issue 3 volume 14 – to find out.

I wonder how much greenery there was in Menevia’s garden? As a child I liked making miniature gardens in plastic trays but of course nothing lived very long in one!

Markinch isn’t very far from where I live – I wonder if Helen still lives in Fife and if she’s still as busy now as she was then!