KIND FRIENDS AND CHILDREN,--The mail on Saturday, July 16, brought
me packages from David Shipman and Fred Tocque, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
John W. Slattern, New York city, and Belle Wallace, Luzerne, N. Y.
Many, many thanks for the books you have sent; thanks, too, for the
kind notes and letters that some of you wrote. It would give me
great pleasure to see you all, and talk with you. The old numbers
of YOUNG PEOPLE will all be new to these children. Dear Fred and
Belle's lesson papers are very nice; and oh, how we all wished you
could have seen our happy scholars on Sunday, with new books and
the bright pretty cards! My children help to teach them, and they
were happy too, and were particularly delighted at Pete's little
Leonard with a Golden ABC primer; the little fellow almost danced
for joy. Uncle Pete was much pleased with the appeal in YOUNG
PEOPLE; and when my little daughter read it to him, he kept saying,
"Dot's ez-ac-er-ly so," with his eyes rolled up so that you could
see only the whites, as he always does when very happy.
We hope, from the books that have already come, that the
school-house and organ will come too. We want to paint the names of
all of you who help, inside the house. It will seem that you are
sharing in the good work if your names are in view, and it may be
that in the days to come some of you may find your way to this
out-of-the-world place, and see the fruits of the dimes you are now
saving.
Since I wrote the above, four little packages have come--two
unmarked, one from Mary O'Neil, Rochester, N. Y., and one from
N. J. Logan, Jun., Logan's Ferry, Penn. Thanks again for kind
wishes and helping hands. Thanks, too, to the mamma who wrote that
sweet letter, and who used to live not so very far away from here.
Pete's Ida is _so very happy_ with a new reader and a "sho'-'nuff"
copy-book, as she calls it.
Good-by, dears, for this time.
(MRS.) ALICE RICHARDSON.
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