D.L.F. PAGES. Old Writers' Week.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 83

D.L.F. PAGES. Old Writers' Week.

jOUR REUNION. ! My Dear Lit He Folk of the Present and of the Past,— lt has been with very great pleasure that I have realised, on going through the letters that have reached me for publication in Old Writers' Week, how strong is the bond that knits together the members of our large family. In almost every letter ' there is some affeotkmate recognition of the benefits our page has been able to bestow on the writer, some kindly greeting to friends who .would have remained unknown to each other but for that same medium of intercourse. The letters from Old Writers "time Itave been urore to ate than jx»3t pleasant reading; they have been vital, and real, - and warm. Last year, at the time of Old Writers' Week, I did not know Darky J from Areta, of Bert from Ceres; but during the fourteen months of my office I have met/ a number of the older as well as the presentday writers, " and now that I have some acquaintance with , them their letters have .personality behind, and are of much deeper interest to me. So many letters have been received this time that it is impossible to publish them all in one issue, and they have been divided between the Witnesses of December 11, 18, and 26. No system of division has been observed at all, for many of the letters arrived during my absenoe, and were handed over to me »fl together, so that I was not even able to arrange them according to dates of arrival. , But the following writers are contributing letters to one of the Witnesses mentioned :— 1. Maidie M. 83. Zoalia 9. Mim Muff©*. 34. Norine M&urine 8. A. M. W. 85. Little Lady 4. Blondel 96. Jim Brown 6. Boadicea 37. Nancy 6. Willow, Brook 38. Vidocq 7. St. E-lma 39. Marnys 8. LoOa 40. Tussock 9. La&die 41. Fra Diavolo 10. Hiawatha 42. Best of Friends IJ. Texas Jack 48. Boy 15. S. R. H. C. 44. Shasta 13. Maid of Orleans 45. Black .Watch 14. Loaf 46. The Australian 16. Awkward Ned Larrikin 1 16. Bleeding Heart 47. Rewa. 17. Jessica 48. Scribbler , 18. MWdey 49. A Lonely Girl j 19. Milldcent 50. Reta ». Airs 61. Arizona 31. Gravel 52. The .Gramaphone 29L / Baronia 58. Southern Cross 'SB. Daisy Primrose 54. Sparrowhawk 34. Octava, 56. Mtona 35. Bert 66. Giulia 86. Harry 57. Mountain Rambler .37. Elaa 58. Roby ' 28. Doughnut 69. The Shepherdesses' 2j9. Datky ' Fairy. Bfh Rough Rider ■,* 60. Emerald. - ' , ' 81. Areta ' '61. Venetia Corona. » 32. Ophir Now it only remains for me, in closing, to wish that the same success may attend our next 0.W.W., and also to wish you, one and all, present-day writers, old writers, and 1 all who read these words, a very happy and beautiful Christmas. This I do from the bottom of my heart.— Yours very sincerely, DOT.