The Little Nightcap Letters

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Fanny Aunt. The Little Nightcap Letters

NIGHTCAP LETTER No. 2 FROM AUNT FANNY

INTRODUCTION

THE NIGHTCAP LETTERS, HOW THEY CAME TO BE WRITTEN

FIRST LETTER

SECOND LETTER

THE FIRST LETTER FROM CHARLESTON

THIRD LETTER

FOURTH LETTER

FIFTH LETTER

SIXTH LETTER

THE RETURN

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One evening the little nightcap mother said: "Children, I have had a most charming present. It is a copy of some letters and stories that were written and told to your little friend, Bella Curtis. They are a kind of baby stories, for children like Minnie. Do you think you shall like them? Do you Charley?"

Then the children all shouted out "Certainly! Of course! the baby stories are the best! no, not the best, but just as good as the old stories – yes, mamma, do read them. Letters! why that is something new – how very nice."

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Then the children all shouted out "Certainly! Of course! the baby stories are the best! no, not the best, but just as good as the old stories – yes, mamma, do read them. Letters! why that is something new – how very nice."

"But I don't want to hear A – B – C," cried little Minnie, who was just learning her letters, and thought it very hard work – "I don't like letters a bit."

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