Your friends Mr. Absolon and Mr. Weir have made a great number of famous pictures for this book, and I am sure you will be very much pleased with them. When you are old enough to learn to draw men and animals, these pictures will serve you excellently well as copies; but you must begin with some that are more easy to draw. You must also try to copy the patterns of the outside cover and the inside lining, which I think are very pretty. They were designed by Mr. Owen Jones.
As you already know some of these tales by heart, I hope you will soon learn the others. I do not mean word for word, but only the stories of them, so that when you go out to see other little boys and girls, or other little boys and girls come to see you, you may be able to amuse them, and then I dare say they will tell you tales as good as those you have told them.
Your loving Father,
J. C.
Kentish Town, Nov. 1849.
