MARY A. LIVERMORE.

DEAR MISS SANBORN:

It gives me pleasure to offer my testimonial to your unique,
original, and very picturesque lectures. The one to which I
recently listened, in the New England Conservatory of Music,
was certainly the most entertaining of any humorous lecture to
which I have ever listened, and it left the audience _talking_,
with such bright, happy faces, I can see it now in my mind. And
they _continued_ to repeat the happy things you said; at least
my own friends did. It was not a "plea for cheerfulness," it
_was_ cheerfulness. I hope you may give it, and make the world
laugh, a thousand times. "He who makes what is useful
agreeable," said old Horace of literature, "wins every vote."
You have the wit of making the useful agreeable, and the spirit
and genius of it.

Sincerely,
HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.

I published a little volume, _A Truthful Woman in Southern
California_, which had a large sale for many years. Women tourists
bought it to "enlarge" with their photographs. Stedman wrote me, after
I had sent him my book:

MY DEAR KATE SANBORN:

I think it especially charming that you should so remember me
and send me a gift-copy of Truthful Kate's breezy and
fascinating report of Southern California. For I had been so
taken with your adoption of that Abandoned Farm that I had
made a note of your second book. Your chapters give me as vivid
an idea of Southern California as I obtained from Miss Hazard's
watercolors, and that is saying a good deal. We all like you,
and indeed who does not? And your books, so fresh and
sparkling, make us like you even more. Believe that I am
gratified by your unexpected gift, and by the note that
convoyed it.
EDMUND C. STEDMAN.

New York Public Library,
Office of Circulation Department,
209 West 23rd Street,
February 19,1907.

MISS KATE SANBORN,
Metcalf, Mass.

DEAR MISS SANBORN:

You may be interested to know that your book on old wall-papers
is included in a list of books specially recommended for
libraries in Great Britain, compiled by the Library Association
of the United Kingdom, recently published in London. As