Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 3, issue 22.
October 26th – November 8th, 1955.

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LETTER PAGE

 1. A letter from a New Zealand reader, Busy Bee Kathleen Davison, North Canterbury, N.Z.
Dear Enid Blyton,
This is about my pet cat, Tinkerbell. A few days ago we heard a terrible din outside and went out to see what was wrong. We saw Tinkerbell chasing a big grey cat that had a wee bantam in his mouth. He was so frightened when Tinkerbell chased him that he dropped the bantam and scurried away. Mummy picked up the poor bantam, and while she was nursing it Tinkerbell came back and made such a fuss – purring and meowing as if to say, “I saved the little bantam, didn’t I?” And she really did. So don’t you think she is a good Busy Bee?
Love from
Kathleen Davison.

(Yes – your Tinkerbell is very good, Kathleen – and so is your letter. You win the letter-prize this week, and it is going all the way to New Zealand!)

2. A letter from John Brown, Bolton-by-Bowland, Clitheroe.
Dear Miss Blyton,
I am enclosing a ten-shilling postal order for your Children’s Home in Beaconsfield. We have a club called the Secret Seven Club and we got the money by charging a penny for each book borrowed by our members. Do you think this is a good idea?
Yours faithfully,
John Brown.

(Yes, I certainly do, John – what a lot of borrowings your Club made to make ten shillings! Please thank your Secret Seven members for me.)

3. A letter from Penelope King, London, N. 

Dear Enid Blyton,
I have a budgerigar called Cheeky. He can say, “I’m Cheeky, yes, I am.” And he can say, “What do you want?” and “What are you doing?” and “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,” and Merry Christmas, everybody,” and “Good morning, would you like a cup of tea?”
Love from
Penelope King.

(What a clever budgie, Penelope. I wonder if any other readers have one quite as clever?)

I do wonder if Tinkerbell wasn’t saying “Can’t I have a tasty chicken snack?” but I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt as I don’t speak cat.

John’s club made 120 loans in order to make 10 shillings at a penny a loan. There were only seven Secret Seven books out by 1955, so if they were equally loaned out that was about 17 loans per book.

Cheeky sounds more realistic than Kiki, if less hilarious.

The missing portion is a coupon of some kind – not another letter – as you’ll see in the next few letter pages.