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Letters page from Volume 4, issue 19.
October 10th – 23rd, 1956.

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LETTER PAGE

A letter from Margaret Robin and her friends Christine, Jacqueline, Ann, Roger and David, Battle, Sussex.
Dear Enid Blyton,
Some of my friends and I decided to hold a fete to collect some money for the Spastics. So we found a lot of our old toys and books and put them together. With these we had a lucky dip and a jumble sale. Others we gave for prizes at a hoopla stall. We had some sticks in a box of sand and the people took these out, and won whatever it said on the bottom of the sticks. There was also a refreshment stall. Everything cost one penny, apart from some of the jumble sale articles. We had a raffle as well for a cake, and the second prize was meringues. The tickets were twopence each. We dressed up as gipsies, and altogether we collected £3 10s. od. for the Spastics.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Robin and her Friends.

(I have chosen your letter, Margaret, for my letter-prize this week, because you described your fete so well, and I am sure it will help other children to try to run one too. You are a kind little band of children. Well done!)

Dear Enid Blyton,
Maureen and I were in a field when we saw a hurt jackdaw. We took it home and put it in a big box. After tea we took it to the vet, and he told us how to look after it. After a few days it got stronger. We fed Jack on bread and milk, cooked eggs and meat. We took him into the garden for a few days, and he began to fly.
Best wishes from
Christine Cox and Maureen Barton
(Busy Bees)

(What an interesting letter, children! I’m proud of two such kind Busy Bees!)

Dear Enid Blyton,
I thought you might like to hear about my doll’s house. My great-grandfather made it. It has four rooms downstairs and three attic rooms. There are three bedrooms, one bathroom (with cold running water), one dining-room, one nursery and a kitchen which has a fitted dresser going from ceiling to floor. It has a stable at the side. I have it on a table on a green cloth, which looks like a garden.
Love from
Glennys Flodman.

(What a lovely doll’s house, Glennys. You must be very proud of it!)

Two letters on popular themes this week – one a fundraiser, and the other an animal rescue.

We’ve seen a lot of bird-watch letters in the past but recently quite a few on rescuing wild birds. There are almost always fundraising letters too, as Blyton probably hoped they would inspire other children to copy the ideas in them!

Glennys’ letter is slight more unusual. Her doll’s house sounds great – especially the running water! (I’m fairly sure if I’d had that in my doll’s house I’d have gotten it all damp and ruined it.)

As a side note, for some reason the ‘letter from’ details are missing from the last two letters. Perhaps just to fit everything in, but it’s unusual!