Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

I don\'t believe I can be going to Heaven--I am getting such a lot
of good things here; it wouldn\'t be fair to get them hereafter too.
Listen to what has happened.

Jerusha Abbott has won the short-story contest (a twenty-five
dollar prize) that the Monthly holds every year. And she\'s a Sophomore!
The contestants are mostly Seniors. When I saw my name posted,
I couldn\'t quite believe it was true. Maybe I am going to be an author
after all. I wish Mrs. Lippett hadn\'t given me such a silly name--
it sounds like an author-ess, doesn\'t it?

Also I have been chosen for the spring dramatics--As You Like It
out of doors. I am going to be Celia, own cousin to Rosalind.

And lastly: Julia and Sallie and I are going to New York next Friday
to do some spring shopping and stay all night and go to the theatre
the next day with `Master Jervie.\' He invited us. Julia............