Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 121
a bad occasion for saying I ve never forgotten the timeyour mother made Christmas in my heart when I wasa poor youngster with scarcely a stocking to hang. Godbless you! You have a fine boy. Very truly yours, John Miller. P. S. That correspondence is a confidential matter be-tween Santa Claus and… … There was once a girl named Betty Leices-ter, who was known first to the readers of St.Nicholas, and who afterward lived in a smallsquare book bound in scarlet and white. I,who know her better than any one else does,and who know my way about Tideshead, thestory-book town, as well as she did, and…
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