Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton
had a stricter policy with her young fans - sending out standard replies to all
letters. Blue Peter editor Biddy Baxter recalled writing to the author
aged six, during an episode of Desert Island Discs in 2014.
“I had a
dreadful experience with Enid Blyton. I had a reply and it was wonderful: the
best day of my life.
“Three weeks
later I wrote to her again and I received an identical reply.
“I remember
bursting into tears and going to see my mother saying: ‘She doesn’t remember
me’. That was something I was so aware of. We tried not to send duplicate
letters.”
And because
of this Ms Baxter enforced a strict policy with her Blue Peter team, ensuring
they wrote individualised replies to each child who wrote in, keeping an index
to ensure that if a child wrote in twice they would have their first letter
referenced in reply to the second one, to let the child know that both letters
had been read.
We will continue reading letters from important writers to their fans whch tell a lot about their personality.
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