Continued The Correspondent
Rosalie Boyd
Hamden, Conn.
Dear Rosalie,
Thanks for your letter. I’m glad you like your new school, and it’s a drag about your chemistry teacher. You would think they would have better things to do than to discover new ways to torment teenagers. How was the dance? Have you seen Lee since? Do you like him like him?
Things are OK here. Boring. I didn’t go to our homecoming dance.
Nobody asked me and it would have been embarrassing to show up alone.
Even NANCY PRUITT had a date (a boy from Belvedere).
I cut my hair short. I’m doing some filing in my dad’s office.
He’s got a new secretary. See how boring everything is?
I’m telling you about my dad’s work staff.
OK, the most interesting thing going on for me is that I wrote a letter to C.
S. Lewis and he wrote me back! I was writing asking about if he would write any new worlds, and he said that he couldn’t be sure about that, but that he was always thinking up new things.
He told me there will be more books in The Chronicles of Narnia series, and he gave me a couple of hints about what happens!
He suggested I read the series The Lord of the Rings, which came out last year and is written by a friend of his, so I bought the first book and I started it last night.
It’s excellent so far, much denser than Mr. Lewis’s stories.
His letter to me was wonderful. He’s very kind, and you can sort of hear his voice from his novels in his letter-writing voice. I am working on a letter back to him.
What are you reading? Miss you. Write me,
Sybil