Dear Mr. Haven,—Will you please be very kind and write something for a little paper which I am editing at school for Aunt Verena to read while she is so ill. You are so clever. Something funny if you can, but, if not, something readable. The paper is to be called The Beguiler; or, The Invalid’s Friend.—Yours affectionately,
Evangeline Barrance
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Horace Mun-Brown to Verena Raby
Dear Aunt,—Just a line to say that I have hit on what I think is a perfect name for my invention, so do not trouble your brains any more. “The Housewife’s Ally.”—Yours sincerely,
Horace Mun-Brown
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Richard Haven to Evangeline Barrance
Dear Evangeline (what a long name!), I am so busy in trying to be a beguiler to your Aunt Verena, on my own account, that I don’t think I shall be able to contribute to your magazine; but I wish it very well and I shall try to collect something for you from a literary friend here and there. Being funny is too difficult for me anyway.—Yours sincerely,