Magazine Letters
Posted: 30 Jan 2015, 05:17
Enid Blyton characters wrote a number of letters to fans and they have been quite popular. The 'Teachers World' contributions usually ended with one from Bobs, EB's dog, and the 'Sunny Stories' magazines had a letter in each issue. Several of these have been reprinted in the 'Enid Blyton Society Journal,' and there's even an 'EB Magazine' contribution from little Noddy (EBSJ#37).
The letters are more in the form of a 'note' that ends with a 'sign-off' sentence often relating to the character in question so we have
"A push down my slippery-slip from Moonface."
"Some milk out of the milk-jug from Laddie."
"Pinkity-pink from Pinky the Chaffinch."
"A very quiet stalk from Patter" (the kitten).
"Tirry-lee to you from The Robin."
"A set of whiskers from Bimbo." In the older 'Sunny Stories' magazines, Bimbo and Topsy more-or-less ruled the roost and it appears the former even posted his own letters because there’s a picture of him inserting an envelope into an old-fashioned pillar-box (SS#220).
A host of characters expressed themselves in the weekly mag. Mary Mouse made her report (SS#460), and Goofy, a little boy EB "sometimes writes about," composed a few lines all by himself (SS#463). Nigger, the cat who lived next door to EB told us of her friendship with Laddie (SS#443), and we've even been honoured with a letter from the famous 'Timothy.' He calls himself that but we all know it's really 'Timmy' of the Famous Five (SS#450). 'Scurry' has communicated as well and I had no idea who this character was but I'm sure some of the more educated EB fans would; he's a mouse who escaped from Gillian's care and now lives in 'a hole at the bottom of the wall.' I think he would have been very well looked after by one of the author's daughters but perhaps he required just a 'little' more freedom. (SS#418).
EB had many animals and birds from which to choose but a few others I couldn't pinpoint were Rufus, and Bluebell, & Greyboy. Rufus is a ginger kitten that "grew into a cat" (SS#398), and the other two are doves who lived at Enid Blyton's residence for years (they tell us that in SS#386).
A few letters that might be worthy of reprinting in the EBSJ are those from Kiki, Buster the Find-Outer's dog, Huffin & Puffin, and Chinky the pixie. I daren't print any here because last time I endeavoured to, the material was "Blatantly Censored!"
I'll bet you not even Moonraker has been 'Blatantly Censored.'
The letters are more in the form of a 'note' that ends with a 'sign-off' sentence often relating to the character in question so we have
"A push down my slippery-slip from Moonface."
"Some milk out of the milk-jug from Laddie."
"Pinkity-pink from Pinky the Chaffinch."
"A very quiet stalk from Patter" (the kitten).
"Tirry-lee to you from The Robin."
"A set of whiskers from Bimbo." In the older 'Sunny Stories' magazines, Bimbo and Topsy more-or-less ruled the roost and it appears the former even posted his own letters because there’s a picture of him inserting an envelope into an old-fashioned pillar-box (SS#220).
A host of characters expressed themselves in the weekly mag. Mary Mouse made her report (SS#460), and Goofy, a little boy EB "sometimes writes about," composed a few lines all by himself (SS#463). Nigger, the cat who lived next door to EB told us of her friendship with Laddie (SS#443), and we've even been honoured with a letter from the famous 'Timothy.' He calls himself that but we all know it's really 'Timmy' of the Famous Five (SS#450). 'Scurry' has communicated as well and I had no idea who this character was but I'm sure some of the more educated EB fans would; he's a mouse who escaped from Gillian's care and now lives in 'a hole at the bottom of the wall.' I think he would have been very well looked after by one of the author's daughters but perhaps he required just a 'little' more freedom. (SS#418).
EB had many animals and birds from which to choose but a few others I couldn't pinpoint were Rufus, and Bluebell, & Greyboy. Rufus is a ginger kitten that "grew into a cat" (SS#398), and the other two are doves who lived at Enid Blyton's residence for years (they tell us that in SS#386).
A few letters that might be worthy of reprinting in the EBSJ are those from Kiki, Buster the Find-Outer's dog, Huffin & Puffin, and Chinky the pixie. I daren't print any here because last time I endeavoured to, the material was "Blatantly Censored!"
I'll bet you not even Moonraker has been 'Blatantly Censored.'