Old nurse's book of rhymes, jingles and ditties

by Unknown

My dear Syd.,

If you laugh heartily at the Pictures in this Book, I shall not have laboured in vain: if you feel glad that the Rhymes are as you and I remember them, and recognise the few old ones, now printed for the first time, it will add to the satisfaction I shall feel.

When you have looked well at the other Cuts, please not to forget the little children at the corners of the pages, they represent all the different sorts of boys and girls that I could easily call to mind.

And, with love to all at home,

Believe me to be,

My dear little Boy,

Your affectionate friend,

CHARLES H. BENNETT.

London, November, 1857.