John Orr.

_To a sick playmate_

46 Elmwood Avenue,
June 16, 1922.

Dear Dorothy:

I am so sorry you are ill, but your mother says you are getting
better. If you like, I shall let you have my book with the poem
called "The Land of Counterpane." It is about a sick little boy
who is playing with his toy soldiers and people and villages. In
the picture they seem to be making him forget he is sick.

All the boys and girls hope you will soon be out to play again.

Sincerely yours,
Betty Foster.

_To a teacher_

500 Park Avenue,
New York, N. Y.,
February 8, 1920.

Dear Miss Sewell:

I want to thank you for your kindness in helping me with my
studies, especially arithmetic. Without your help I should
not have been able to pass my examinations.

Mother asks that you will come some day next week to take
tea with us.

Sincerely yours,
Susan Evans.

_To a grandparent_

Dear Grandmother:

I wish you a very happy birthday and I hope you will like the
present I sent you. Mother helped me to make it.

I send you my best love.

Your loving grandchild,
Evelyn.

Here is a charming letter[17] that Helen Keller when she was ten years
of age wrote to John Greenleaf Whittier on the occasion of his birthday:

South Boston, Dec. 17, 1890.

Dear Kind Poet,

This is your birthday; that was the first thought which came
into my mind when I awoke this morning; and it made me glad
to think I could write you a letter and tell you how much your
little friends love their sweet poet and his birthday. This
evening they are going to entertain their friends with
readings from your poems and music. I hope the swift winged
messengers of love will be here to carry some of the sweet
melody to you, in your little study by the Merrimac. At first
I was very sorry when I found that the sun had hidden his
shi