Where else, would you
suppose?
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THE LETTER-BOX.
Fair Haven, Vt. 1877.
DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: Two of my sisters and myself have taken your
magazine ever since it was published, and like it very much. I am
glad Miss Louisa M. Alcott is writing a story for your magazine, as
I am very fond of her stories.
I have read, "Eight Cousins," "Rose in Bloom," "Little Men,"
"Hospital Sketches," "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag," and "Little Women,"
myself, have been called "Meg, Amy, Beth and Jo." My oldest sister
Ada, who is sixteen years old, is the "Amy" of our family; My
little sister Stella, who is eleven years old, is well skilled in
music, and we think she is very much like "Beth"; and I am
thirteen, and have been called "Jo."
So, you see, I was greatly interested in "Little Women," as I could
appreciate it so well; and it seemed to me as if Miss Alcott must
have seen us four girls before she wrote the story.
I have four first cousins, and they are all boys, and with my
sisters and me we are "eight cousins." One of my cousins is a
little baby, a little over five weeks old.
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