[Illustration:  PETER MacQUEEN]

DEAR KATE SANBORN: 

The “Indian Summer Calendar” is the best thing you have done yet.  I have read it straight through twice, and now it lies on my desk, and I read daily selections from it, as some of the good people read from their “Golden Treasury of Texts.”

MARY A. LIVERMORE.

DEAR MISS SANBORN: 

It gives me pleasure to offer my testimonial to your unique, original, and very picturesque lectures.  The one to which I recently listened, in the New England Conservatory of Music, was certainly the most entertaining of any humorous lecture to which I have ever listened, and it left the audience talking, with such bright, happy faces, I can see it now in my mind.  And they continued to repeat the happy things you said; at least my own friends did.  It was not a “plea for cheerfulness,” it was cheerfulness.  I hope you may give it, and make the world laugh, a thousand times.  “He who makes what is useful agreeable,” said old Horace of literature, “wins every vote.”  You have the wit of making the useful agreeable, and the spirit and genius of it.

Sincerely,
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.

I published a little volume, A Truthful Woman in Southern California, which had a large sale for many years.  Women tourists bought it to “enlarge” with their photographs.  Stedman wrote me, after I had sent him my book: 

MY DEAR KATE SANBORN: 

I think it especially charming that you should so remember me and send me a gift-copy of Truthful Kate’s breezy and fascinating report of Southern California.  For I had been so taken with your adoption of that Abandoned Farm that I had made a note of your second book.  Your chapters give me as vivid an idea of Southern California as I obtained from Miss Hazard’s watercolors, and that is saying a good deal.  We all like you, and indeed who does not?  And your books, so fresh and sparkling, make us like you even more.  Believe that I am gratified by your unexpected gift, and by the note that convoyed it. 
                                      EDMUND C. STEDMAN.

New York Public Library, Office of Circulation Department, 209 West 23rd Street, February 19,1907.

MISS KATE SANBORN,
Metcalf, Mass.

DEAR MISS SANBORN: 

You may be interested to know that your book on old wall-papers is included in a list of books specially recommended for libraries in Great Britain, compiled by the Library Association of the United Kingdom, recently published in London.  As there seems to be a rather small proportion of American works included in the list, I think that this may be worthy of note.

With kindest regards, I remain,
Very truly yours,
ARTHUR E. BOSTWICK.
Chief of the Circulation Department.

MY DEAR MISS KATE SANBORN: