Bertie's Box

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Louisa May Alcott. Bertie's Box

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BERTIE'S BOX

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

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"Dear Madame, knowing your kind heart, I venture to hope that you may be willing to help me from your abundant stores. I will state my request as briefly as possible. I am so poor that I have nothing for my two little boys on Christmas. I have seen better days, but my husband is dead, my money is gone. I am sick, alone, and in need of everything. But I only ask for some small presents for the children, that they may not feel forgotten at this season of universal pleasure and plenty. Your mother's heart will feel how hard it will be for me to see their disappointment when, for the first time in their lives, Santa Claus brings nothing.

"Hopefully yours, Ellen Adams."

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