A letter arrives from Iowa, I finally see the name on the back of the envelope and can now clearly read that her name is L-E-N-Y. I looked her up and found this really great article about her. As you can see from this and the attached letter her work of connecting pen-pals benefitted many. I suppose she had no idea that her letters would still be around today.
LR
Book 1 – Letter 3 Received March 18, 1942 from “LR”
The 3rd letter is from a friend in Iowa. This is still early in the process and as you can see she gets more names to correspond with. In current terms this would be known as “networking”. I also find it interesting that this is a girl who really wanted to be in school but due to family obligations she needed to stay at home and work.