Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
26th March
Mr. D.-L.-L. Smith,
SIR: You never answer any questions; you never show the slightestinterest in anything I do. You are probably the horridest one of allthose horrid Trustees, and the reason you are educating me is, notbecause you care a bit about me, but from a sense of Duty.
I don't know a single thing about you. I don't even know your name.It is very uninspiring writing to a Thing. I haven't a doubt but thatyou throw my letters into the waste-basket without reading them.Hereafter I shall write only about work.
My re-examinations in Latin and geometry came last week. I passed themboth and am now free from conditions.
Yours truly, Jerusha Abbott
Mr. D.-L.-L. Smith,
SIR: You never answer any questions; you never show the slightestinterest in anything I do. You are probably the horridest one of allthose horrid Trustees, and the reason you are educating me is, notbecause you care a bit about me, but from a sense of Duty.
I don't know a single thing about you. I don't even know your name.It is very uninspiring writing to a Thing. I haven't a doubt but thatyou throw my letters into the waste-basket without reading them.Hereafter I shall write only about work.
My re-examinations in Latin and geometry came last week. I passed themboth and am now free from conditions.
Yours truly, Jerusha Abbott