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letterhead JEANNETTE ST. L. SOMERS 11209 Vernon Avenue Chicago, Illinois

the "social satire" that you so slyly grin over, but I do remember Mr. Mantallini and Miss Henry Henrietta Petowker and the old man in "David Copperfield" who scared David with his "O my lights and livers! Goo roo, Goo roo! Those things spell Dickens for me. I got a kick out of your references to Gilbert and Sullivan and to "Alice." I was brung up on G.& S. and have loved Alice for forty two years, ever since the time I saved soap wrappers and sent away for my copy to Armour's or Swift's, I don't remember which. My battered red "Alice" shares the shelves with much more sophisticated volumes, but it and "Huckleberry Finn" remain my first loves. May an aging school ma'rm tell you that she is one of your fans, and still keep out of the adolescent class? I figger [sic] that I'm old enough now to tell people when I like things. Sincerely, (Mrs.) Jeannette St. Lawrence Somers