I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope/ For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,/ For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith/ But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
[T.S. Eliot]

This letter, from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, who was her editor for the Little Prairie books, is priceless.

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[With thanks to Thea, and Slate.]