![]() ![]() These monthly letters are absolutely obligatory on your part they are the only payment that Mr. If any point should ever arise where an answer would seem to be imperative–such as in the event of your being expelled, which I trust will not occur–you may correspond with Mr. He detests letter-writing and does not wish you to become a burden. He will never answer your letters, nor in the slightest particular take any notice of them. Since you have no family with whom to correspond, he desires you to write in this way also, he wishes to keep track of your progress. ‘His reason in requiring the letters is that he thinks nothing so fosters facility in literary expression as letter-writing. Lippett, one of Smith’s requirements is that Jerusha write him regularly, care of his secretary, to report on her progress: Smith, who apparently has sent several male inmates of the orphanage to school already, heard an essay that Jerusha wrote and decided to sponsor her on the basis of her writing (Jerusha aspires to be an author). Lippett, the orphanage’s director, and informed that one of the trustees, known only to Jerusha by the alias “John Smith”, has decided to send her to college. Jerusha is 18 when she’s summoned by Mrs. The story opens with Jerusha Abbott, lifelong orphan and current drudge at the John Grier Home, the orphanage at which she was raised. So even though I’d just finished a short, light, comic classic ( Three Men in a Boat) I decided to give another one a try rather than attempt a Big, Serious 19th century novel. My friend mentioned that Daddy-Long-Legs is an epistolary novel, and well, I love a good epistolary novel. * I used to define a “classic” as Well-Known, Improving and Literary fiction, but have gotten looser and now it’s pretty much anything that I can get via public domain and that I’ve heard of before (or at least heard of the author). A friend suggested Daddy-Long-Legs, with which I was vaguely familiar from the film version, though I’ve never seen it (I’m referring to the Leslie Caron musical one apparently there are several film versions – I don’t think the Caron one is a particularly faithful adaption). I had just finished my most recent classic* read and was casting about for another.
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