Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Apparent mis-spellings in letters written by young children have not been changed; some are noted below. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Page 11: The first “a” in “Yes, S_a_rah” was printed in italics. Page 39: “your own expresion” was printed with one “s”; “they trie” was printed that way. Page 67: “did not suceede” was printed that way. Page 74: “The fisrt” was printed that way. Page 100: The block of text labelled “[Facsimile: ]” contains the text of a facsimile reproduced in the original book. It looks similar to a long footnote. Within that text, the numbers preceding the species were printed in boldface. Page 149: “chicadee” was printed that way.