Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 3, issue 20.
September 28th – October 11th, 1955.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

A letter from Caroline Hayes, Waikato, New Zealand.
Dear Enid Blyton.
I am going to tell you a sad story with a happy ending. One night my cat, Tuss, got into a terrible fight, and a cat clawed his right eye, and he became blind in that eye. I took him to the Vet who said that he would give me ten minutes to decide if he should destroy Tuss, or take out his blind eye, with no pain. I decided to have his eye taken out. Tuss stayed two days at the vet, then came home and after a week he was quite all right. He is now 13 years old and looks as young as can be and is as playful as a kitten.
Love and best wishes from
Caroline Hayes.

(What an interesting letter, Caroline. I have sent you my letter-prize.)

A letter from Anne Cooper, Meltham, Yorks.
Dear Enid Blyton,
If you remember, a few months ago you put in your magazine a coupon for anemones. I sent for them and put half of them in the garden. These last few weeks they have been in full bloom and are lovely flowers. We put the other half in last week and hope they will be as nice.
Yours truly,
Anne Cooper.

(I am very pleased you liked the anemones, Anne. Mine were lovely too.)

A letter from Briony Jordan, Hove 3.
Dear Miss Blyton,
Thank you very much for the lovely bicycle I won in your Diary Competition. I was so excited that I felt quite faint! My old bicycle is much too small now and nearly worn out, so this new one came just at the right time. Mummy and Daddy were very surprised and pleased too. Thank you again and lots of love, from
Briony Jordan.

(A very nice thank-you letter, Briony. I shall run the same competition in my Diary again this year, so look out for it!)

Unusual that of the three letters picked this week we have none that were about raising funds!

But we do have three letters of the type that Blyton also liked to pick.

One an interesting story about an animal (she often picks both pet stories and ones about garden wildlife).

Another about gardening, another popular topic.

And the last a thank-you letter – probably one of the less common ones as I’m sure she received thanks for all sorts of things constantly.