My Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett Author
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2021-04-02 18:20:28
My Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett Author
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2021-04-02 18:20:28
There came to me among the letters I re-ceived last spring one which touched me very closely. It was a letter full of delightful things but the delightful thing which so reached my soul was a question. The writer had been read-ing The Secret Garden a...
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There came to me among the letters I re-ceived last spring one which touched me very closely. It was a letter full of delightful things but the delightful thing which so reached my soul was a question. The writer had been read-ing The Secret Garden and her question was this: Did you own the original of the robin? He could not have been a mere creature of fantasy. I feel sure you owned him. I was thrilled to the centre of my being. Here was some one who plainly had been intimate with robins-English robins. I wrote and explained as far as one could in a letter what I am now going to relate in detail.
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