LETTERS TO MOTHER.
The letters which Mr. C. G. Wheeler quotes tin his book "Letters to Mother , ' are typical children's letters. Here is the small schoolboy's first letter, so like that of every small schoolboy, though Horace Walpole, who became famous, is writing:—-
Denr mama I hop you are wall and I am very wall and 1 hope papa is wall and I begin to slaap ami I hop al wall and my cousans liks thers pla things vary wall and I hope Doly phillips is wall and pray give my Duty to papa.
and I am very glad to hear by Tom that all my cruatanrs ar wall and mrs. Selwen has sprand her Fot and gvis her Sarves to vou and I dind ther yester Dav.
If mothers want rewards, here is the perfect one, sent by Sophia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife: —
In earliest childhood I remember some portions of my life only in moments when, at some crisis of excitement or trouble, you said to me softly, My love! The tone, the words, used to pour balm and comfort over my whole being. Then I did not know how to thank you; but now I know well enough, and I remember it when my child is in the same mood. and T also say to her My love! and with the samp effect.
I used to tliink mothers lived without eating as well as without sleeping. I saw you were taken up with supplying other* with what they wished for. l>e'fore they hml time to find out themselves There was a beautiful ideal in your mind; I saw itj that was my mother!
LETTERS TO MOTHER.
Auckland Star, Volume LVXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1937, Page 11
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