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Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

I started downtown today to buy a bottle of shoe blacking and some collars and the material for a new blouse and a jar of violet cream and a cake of castile for a new blouse and a jar of violet cream and...

Dear Daddy,

Are you still harping on that scholarship? I never knew a man so obstinate and stubborn and unreasonable, and tenacious, and bulldoggish, and unable-to-see-other-people’s –points-of-view as you.

You pre...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Back at college again and an upper classman. Our study is better than ever this year-faces the south with two huge windows and , oh! So furnished .Julia, with an unlimited allowance , arrived two days early and was at...

Daddy! Daddy! What do you think? The postman had just come with two letters.

1st – my story is accepted.$50.        

Alors! I’m an AUTHOR.

2d- a letter from the...

Dear Daddy,

He has gone, and we are missing him! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them suddenly snatched away, it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation. I’m finding Mrs. Se...

I started this letter ages ago, but I haven't had a second to finish it.

Isn't this a nice thought from Stevenson?

The world is so full of a number of things,

I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
...

We climbed Sky Hill Monday afternoon. That's a mountain near here; not an awfully high mountain, perhaps-no snow on the summit-but at least you are pretty breathless when you reach the top. The lower slopes are covered with woods, but the top is just p...

Well, Daddy,Master Jervie's here. And such a nice time as we're having! At least I am, and I think he is too-he has been here ten days and he doesn't show any signs of going. The way Mrs.Semple pampers that man is scandalous. If she indulged him as muc...

Good morning again! I didn't get this enveloped yesterday before the postman came, so I'll add some more. We have one mail a day at twelve o'clock. Rural delivery is a blessing to the farmers!

Our postman not only delivers letters, but he ...

Good morning! Here is some news! What do you think? You'd never, never never guess who's coming to Lock Willow. A letter to Mrs.Semple from Mr.Pendleton. He's motoring through the Berkshires, and is tired and wants to rest on a nice quiet farm - if he ...

Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs,

Sir: I address you from the second crotch in the willow tree by  the pool in the pasture. There's a fog croaking underneath, a locust singing overhead and two little "devil down-heads" darting up and down the...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

It has been nearly two months since I wrote, which wasn't nice of me,I know, but I haven't loved you much this summer-you see I'm being frank!

You can't imagine how disappointed I was at having to give up...

Mr. John Smith.

Sir: Yours of the 7th inst. at hand. In compliance with the instructions received through your secretary, I leave on Friday next to spend the summer at Lock Willow Farm.

I hope always to remain,

(M...

Dear Daddy- Long- Legs,

Your secretary man has just written to me saying that Mr.Smith prefers that I should not accept Mrs. McBride's invitation, but should return to Lock Willow the same as last summer.

Why, why, why, Daddy?...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You will never guess the nice thing that has happened.

The McBrides have asked me to spend the summer at their camp in the Adirondacks! They belong to a sort of  club on a lovely little lake in the m...

Mr.Daddy-Long-Legs Smith,

Sir: Having completed the study of argumentation and the science of dividing a thesis into heads, I have decided to adopt the following form for letter writing. It contains all necessary facts, but no unnecessary ...

Perhaps you think, last night being Friday, with no classes today, that I passed a nice, quiet, readable evening with the set of Stevenson that I bought with my prize money? But if so, you've never attended a girls' college, Daddy dear. Six friends dro...

When I came in from Laboratory this afternoon, I found a squirrel sitting on the tea table helping himself to almonds. These are the kind of callers we entertain now that warm weather has come and the window stays open--

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Field Day last Saturday. It was a very spectacular occasion. First we had a parade of all the classes, with everbody dressed in white linen, the seniors carrying blue and gold Japanese umbrellas, and the juniors white...

Dearest Daddy,

Will you please forgive me for the letter I wrote you yesterday? After I posted it I was sorry, and tried to get it back, but that beastly mail clerk wouldn't give it to me.

It's the middle of the night now; I'v...

Dear Mr. Rich-Man,

Here's your check for fifty dollars.Thank you very much, but I do not feel that I can keep it. My allowance is sufficient to afford all of the hats that I need. I am sorry that I wrote all that silly stuff about the mill...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Mercy ! Isn't New York big? Worcester is nothing to it. Do you mean to tell me that you actually live in all that confusion? I don't believe that I shall recover for months from the bewildering effcet of two days of i...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

I don't believe I can be going to Heaven-I am getting such a lot of good things here; it wouldn't be fair to get them hereafter, too. Listen to what has happende.

Jerusha Abbott has won the short-story contes...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

There is a March wind blowing ,and the sky is filled with heavy, black moving clouds, The crows in the pine trees are making such a clamor! It's an intoxicating, exhilarating, calling noise. You want to close your books...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Jimmie McBride has sent me a Princeton banner as big as one end of the room; I am very grateful to him for remembering me, but I don't know what on earth to do with it. Sallie and Julia won't let me hang it up; our room...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Did you ever have a sweet baby girl who was stolen from the cradle in infancy?

Maybe I am she! If we were in a novel, that would be the denouement, wouldn't it?

It's really awfully queer not to kno...

Dear Daddy,

We started to walk to town today, but mercy! how it poured. I like winter to be winter with snow instead of rain.

Julia's desirable uncle called again this afternoon-and brought a five-pound box of chocolates. The...

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

I meant to write to you before and thank you for your Christmas check, but life in the McBride household is very absorbing, and I don't seem able to find two consecutive minutes to spend at a desk.

I bought a...

Do you want to know what I look like? Here's a photograph of all three that Leonora Fenton took.

The light one who is laughing is Sallie, and the tall one with her nose in the air is Julia, and the little one with the blowing across her face...

Dear Daddy- Long- Legs,

We beat the freshmen at basketball yesterday. Of course we're pleased-but, oh , if we could only beat the juniors! I'd be willing to be black and blue all over and stay in bed a week in a witchhazel compress.
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