[Transcriber’s Note: The 1000th number is available from Project Gutenberg as etext number 60565, [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60565].]
The Editor feels bound to record, for the pleasure of the general reader of this magazine, some of the charming expressions of goodwill called forth by the publication of the 1000th Number. He has been greatly cheered by them, and he knows so well that the readers will share the pleasure with him that he will unclose to them some of his recent correspondence, the actual letters themselves being sent to the printer as MS.
First, from readers old and young, and from every nation under the sun, he has received hearty congratulations.
One kind girl near London writes:
I must congratulate you on the charming 1000th Number of The Girl’s Own Paper. It is a very nice idea, giving the photographs of the contributors to the paper. I have taken The Girl’s Own Paper since it first came out, never missing one week, and I have also every one of the Summer and Christmas numbers. Although I was away one year on a sea-voyage, the paper was taken for me. When it first came out, I was quite a child; my mother took it for me, and I have always enjoyed reading it. I consider it the best paper published for either old or young, and would not give it up for anything. When I saw the 1000th number, I felt I must write and tell you what an old subscriber you had and one who appreciates The Girl’s Own Paper so much. It is not many, I think, could say they have every week of the paper. Wishing it every success for the future,
Believe me to be faithfully yours, N. H.
Another reader writes:
Dear Mr. Editor,—I have just been reading the 1000th Number of The Girl’s Own Paper, and I feel I must write to thank you (and congratulate you) for the pleasures and benefits which I have received from it during a very long acquaintance; in fact I knew it in its very first days, and distinctly remember being keenly interested in the tale “Zara, or, My Granddaughter’s Money.” I was really a girl then, and it seems, and is, a long, long while ago. I can but echo heartily Miss Burnside’s wish that it may live another 1000 weeks, and yet another; and—who knows?—another on to that. I should think one great reason for its popularity is that it suits so many different sorts of minds. There is no doubt that when catering for our mental food, you have remembered the old saying that “variety is charming.” More, it is also wholesome. With every good wish for a yet wider circulation of our dear paper, and the welfare of our Editor,
Believe me, truly yours, A. M.
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