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Our classes in The History of the UnitedStates are studying about you, and we wantto know more.
Our teacher says she has seen you. Thatyou live in, or near Washington, Districtof Columbia, and that, although very busy,she thought you might be willing to receivea short letter from us, and I writeto ask you to be so kind as to tell us whatyou did when you were a little girl like us.All of us want to know. I am almost thirteen.
If you could send us a few words, weshould all be very happy. I write for all.
October third, nineteen hundred, six.
I am studying about you in my History,and what you did in the war, and I thoughtI would write and ask you what you didafore you did that.
Your oft-repeated appeals have reachedme. They are too many and too earnestto be disregarded; and because of them,and because of my love for you, I havededicated this little book to you. I havemade it small, that you may the more easilyread it. I have done it in the hope thatit may give you pleasure, and in the wishthat, when you shall be women and men,you may each remember, as I do, that youwere once a child, full of childish thoughtsand action, but of whom it was said, “Sufferthem to come unto Me, and forbidthem not, for of such is the Kingdom ofHeaven.”