封信英语小学100词以上热门20篇

Dear Mr. Cao

Hello!

This new year, I have read a lot of books about the new year, and the book

that impresses me most is Spring Festival.

The author of Spring Festival is an Chengna. A long time ago, there was a

monster named "Nian". It had two sharp horns and covered with plum red scales.

Bigger than an elephant, fiercer than a tiger. It looks terrible. Every new

years Eve, "Nian" will come to the village to eat people. One year "Nian" came

again, and a young man said, "its better to fight with it than to let it eat!"

The young people nearby picked up the weapons on the ground and attacked Nian

one after another. Unfortunately, they were not the opponents of Nian, so they

were all eaten by Nian.

Since then, "Nian" has become more fierce, so every new years Eve people

will hide in caves. Another year, new years Eve arrived, just as people were

packing up, there was an old man begging. The old man asked people for food, but

people were very busy and had no time to pay attention to him. Suddenly, an old

woman gave him some food and advised him to go up the mountain to hide. But he

did not hurry to eat the food his wife gave him. The old woman advised him to

run for his life, but he said, "I have a way to get rid of Nian. She thought he

was talking crazy, so I had to leave him. In the middle of the night, Nian broke

into the village. She found a big red paper on her door, lit a candle in the

room, and burned a torch in the yard. "Year" carefully came to the door, and

suddenly came the "crackling" sound in the courtyard. Then an old man in red

came out laughing. "Nian" was so scared that he ran out of the village. The

original "year" most afraid of red, fire and explosion sound!

The next day, the people who took refuge were very surprised to see that

the village was safe and sound! The old woman suddenly realized that the

villagers talked about the old mans promise. People flocked to their wives and

in laws house. They saw red paper pasted in front of the door, and a pile of

unburned bamboo in the courtyard was still "popping" and several red candles in

the room were still flashing. In fact, the old man is to help people mirror out

"Nian" immortals.

Since then, every new years Eve, every family pastes couplets to set off

firecrackers, and every household has bright lights to keep the new year. People

call this traditional festival the Spring Festival.

After reading this book, I realized that the old beggar turned out to be a

fairy. I was so moved that the "year" was formed in this way. Now we also call

it "Spring Festival". I think this book is very popular. I have learned a lot

from it. I really want more foreigners to know and understand the true meaning

of the traditional Chinese festival "Spring Festival". thank you!

wish

The work went well

Your student: Huang Ziming

亲爱的远方朋友：你好!

我是一个五年级的小学生，是一个阳光快乐的小男孩，有一头蘑菇似的头发。爱好很多，最喜欢的是下象棋，是班级里的“象棋小高手”。最开始我还不懂下象棋的精髓，只是一味地把棋子向前冲，所以常常打“败仗”。不过，我这人不怕输，越输越有干劲，越学越有趣。正是无数次的失败成就了现在的我。

我还非常喜欢奥数，尤其喜欢研究一些有挑战性的题目，十分享受一步一步解开谜团的过程，最后品尝胜利带来的喜悦。我荣获过数学素养比赛一、二、三等奖，其中一等奖三次。我第一次获得一等奖是在我一年级的时候，捧回大奖状的我高兴了整整一个星期，不知道远方的你听到这个消息会为我开心吗?你有自己的兴趣和爱好吗?或者曾经得过什么奖?愿意写信告诉我，让我跟你一起分享吗?对了，写这封信的主要目的是想和你成为“手拉手”的对象，因此，我心里有几点想法想和你探讨：

1、希望我们平时可以通过书信、微信或者QQ多联系，多交流学习，取长补短，共同进步。

2、希望放假期间可以到对方的学校或者家里互访，体验对方的生活。

怎么样?我的想法可行吗?期待你的回信，并且在信中提出你的看法和建意，谢谢!

In Chinese lunar calendar, July 7th is a romantic day for the young people,

which is called Qixi Festival that is also referred to the Chinese Valentine’s

Day. This festival has been the tradition and many young people celebrate it in

their own way. What’s more, the government listed Qixi Festival as the

intangible cultural heritage.

The origin of Qixi Festival is about a romantic story. It was said that in

the ancient time, a beautiful young lady who was an immortal came to the men’s

world. She fell in love with an ordinary man. But there was limitation between

immortal and human being, so they were separated by the lady’s parents. Their

love story moved a lot of people and the girl’s parents decided to let this

couple meet on July 7th every year.

Today, When Qixi Festival comes, the single ladies and men will try to ask

the one they like out. They want to have a date and show their likeness. So they

know each other’s heart if they say yes on that day. The romantic atmosphere can

be sensed everywhere and we are enjoying it.

Dear __:

We have not seen each other for a long time. I miss (think of) you very

much. I wish (that) I had wings and could fly to your home. However, this is

impossible! Father (My father) has gone abroad of late. If I had had time then,

I would have accompanied him. Only Mother (my mother) and I are at home now (at

present). We are leading (living) a quiet and happy life. We look as if we were

fairies. I hope (that) I can hear from you very often. Sincerely yours.

Your friend:__

There are four seasons in the year. spring, summer, fall, and winter,but i

like winter best.in winter we can play skiing, play skatting, and bit snow.i and

my friend mary, make snowman.i am very happy.winter is very beautiful. so i like

winter best. i hope people like winter best.

12 May 2006

Dear Mary,

I am sorry to trouble you, but nobody would come into my mind to help me except you.

You know, I had planned this holiday for several years. A t last, my dream came true. You could imagine how excited I was. My mind was completely occupied with the holiday. I forgot to collect my laundry. I dont know if you can help me collect my laundry. I sent the laundry to the Johns. It is the one down the corner on St. Peters Street. You cant miss it, because the house is painted green-a big green house. I have got two pairs of trousers, three shirts, one T-shirt and a blanket. Call a taxi to send you home. I will pay you back when I am home.

My first stop is London. It is raining. The streets are very clean. How I wish I could have the chance to see the famous London fog. But someone told me that was already the history. One can only read things like that about London in books.

My best wishes to you.

Yours sincerely, Peter Chen

We had a small debate yesterday in politics class, which made everybody laugh. Wang Yongbin in our class is funny. He said with a crooked neck, "please state your opinion in opposition." It looks very serious! The opposite students grabbed the handle of our classmates, so Liu Yang, our mathematics class, said immediately: "the student said that dreams and dreams are opposite to reality." The teacher and his classmates laughed.

There was a counter student, Zhang Yijun, who said that he helped us in the opposite direction. Fortunately, the teacher reminded him in time to correct it. Yu Miao, a counter student, said, "dont you think its hard to learn before the end of the semester?" So I interposed, "because we know that we have passed." The students applauded immediately. Every time when our fellow students spoke well, Mu Deyu said at the bottom, "brilliant, really brilliant!" We said, "why dont you go up and say it?" He said, "Im stage fright." This debate is really interesting!

When someone disagrees with you or offends you, don’t lose your temper.

Why? Because it is of no use to do so. You ought to (should) be patient and keep

calm lest you should quarrel with him. You must know that patience is not

cowardice, but a virtue. I hope that everybody practices it.

In addition, patience will also bring us success. When you meet with

difficulties in your work, it is no use losing heart. You must keep on fighting

until (till) the final victory belongs to you.

Friends returning to South during the New Years Day and The Spring Festival:

How do you do! New Years Day and Spring Festival holiday are approaching. "Dongting Pearl · Ecological Nan County" welcomes you to return home to enjoy the festival. At present, the situation of COVID-19 prevention and control is still very complex and severe due to multiple factors such as the continuous outbreak of COVID-19 abroad, the increasing number of sporadic cases in China and the increasing risk of influenza virus infection due to lower temperature. Taking necessary precautions on the way home can effectively reduce the risk of infection. In order to you and your family and more hometown peoples health, so that we have a stable and peaceful "double festival", please be sure to cooperate with the following work:

1. Make scientific arrangements for homecoming. According to the requirements of the prevention and control work, people from overseas, middle and high-risk areas and those with red or yellow health codes are required to undergo centralized quarantine, home observation, nucleic acid testing and other prevention and control measures after returning to south China. They are advised not to return to South China for a short period of time with their relatives, and there are risks of infection and transmission on the way. Those who intend to return to the south should report to the village (community) where they live in advance, truthfully provide their activity track and personal health status, learn about the prevention and control requirements in advance, and cooperate with the prevention and control measures according to law. If fever, cough, fatigue and other symptoms appear before departure, seek medical advice in time and delay the return to the south.

Second, do a good job of personal protection during the journey. Please try to buy tickets online to reduce the risk of infection. When taking public transportation, please actively cooperate with the staff to carry out temperature detection, health code inspection and other prevention and control work, wear a mask throughout the whole journey, maintain social distance, record the vehicle, seat number and other information, and properly keep travel tickets and electronic consumption records for inquiry and tracing. Please try to avoid eating and drinking in the car, do not buy or carry imported frozen, chilled and other food. Friends who drive back to the south from outside the province, please cooperate with the staff to do a good job of monitoring and management of vehicles and personnel entering the south.

3. Reduce the risk of cluster infection. After returning to the south, please try to reduce the number of visits to relatives and friends, reduce gatherings, reduce the risk of infection, and advocate the adoption of telephone New Year calls, WeChat New Year calls, etc. In case of fever, cough, diarrhea and other symptoms, one should avoid contact with others as far as possible. After taking personal protective measures, one should go to the nearest fever clinic in time, inform the doctor of his/her recent activity track and contact history, and avoid taking public transportation on the way to the doctor. Regular ventilation, frequent hand washing, no gathering, wearing masks, one-meter line, using chopsticks and other healthy lifestyle and behaviors should be regulated in daily life. People should try to avoid going to closed places and gathering places, balance nutritious diet, reasonably arrange work and rest, and improve body immunity.

COVID-19 Prevention and Control Headquarters, Nanxian County committee of the CPC

December 8, 2020

Dear Mother,

Hello! You are my teacher on the road of life, is my model of learning life, every bit of my growth is written by your love, looking back on the fleeting time, including joy, pain, tears and laughter.

There is one thing, I still can not forget, I wonder if you still remember? One time after school, I let you buy me spicy string, you said: this no nutrition, I go to buy you a cake. I said: No, I will have spicy kebabs. Without saying a word, you took me to the cake king. After buying the cake you let me carry, I put a pout, head a low pretend not to hear, not only did not pay you; And threw the door and ran out. Back at home, you give me cooking; Fill me with rice; Help me to my dish... Looking at your busy figure, my heart is very sad, you work day and night for me, but I...... Mother I am not sensible; Well, Im sorry... Mom, is you raise me, is you a mouthful of rice feed me grew up, you for my laundry, cooking, after going to school, regardless of the wind, rain, you pick me up on time every day to school, school, evening but also help me write homework, teach me some truth, you pay too much for me too much...... Thank you for giving me life, for giving me happiness, for giving me the chance to make my life worth living.

Thank you for raising me and being my first teacher, teaching me how to live and how to be grateful.

A mothers love is like a gentle, a mothers love is a poem, the poem have not finished writing, tears down slowly, the years in a hurry, some things will dissipate over time, my mother gave me love and will never disappear, a mothers love is like the sun in the sky, always warm my heart, a mothers love, like the sea, and endless, unfathomable, but contained all my fault, a mothers love is like snow mountain in one thousand, glittering and translucent and transparent. Some people say: a mothers love is like a poem, a mothers love is like a song. I would like to say: how can a small poem write a mothers love, how can a piece of music sing a mothers love, a picture, how can draw a mother? A thousand words come in one sentence: mom, I love you!

I wish you a successful New Year and good health.

dear kate,

this term i moved to a new house and studied in a new school. but i always missed my friend. my old house was move comfortable than this new house. i wanted to go back to my old house.

everything was strange for me,so i couldnt study better. i felt nervous in the first test. and i got bad scores,i felt very sad. the teacher shouted at me. and then,i felt under too much pressure and very tired. my parents were also sad with me. when my classmates knew this thing,she helped me,and gave me some advice. later,i thought i can be better next time.

i hope to get on well with everyone and get a good mark soon.

yours,

li hua

Dear New Year: Hello! This is the first time for the small cabinet in the public number to write a more alternative push, but it is very meaningful, it will record every day of the journey of the heart. I often tell myself that every day is worth living. Dou Handle turned southeast northwest, the four seasons and a reincarnation, such as a flash of time, the New Year you came to our side. New Years day, people often to the future time to place good wishes, pray to ring out the old and welcome the new, the day over better. In the heart of the pavilion, the New Year is a symbol of footprints - through the spring, summer, autumn and winter, but always harbor the courage to change. In fact, I have always liked the atmosphere of the New Year, no matter how far we go, go around or back to my hometown, like the sun, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The New Year you walk through the people mountain people sea, walked the sun and the moon mountains and rivers, in the arrival of the spring time to bring the best wishes. You tell us all the time, their happiness and happy things to hide in the heart, as fireworks bloom and bloom, let the reunion in the heart of the warm to disperse the winter. Looking at your figure, listening to your blessing, I suddenly feel every hug with you is a kind of happiness, because every year you always come as expected. Everywhere you go, the sun shines. Where you point, the stars shine. The ancients often said: "a years plan begins with spring. In the New Year, your "new", new in us spend a full year, and full of hope for the next year, so that the unknown life more hope and expectation. You let us realize that each New Year is a world of bath wash, wash our past regrets, wash our pure heart, so that each person more a side of the vast "heart". But I know that each time you come, bring us a new feeling and experience! We had a special and unforgettable Spring Festival this year. At the very beginning, there was an outbreak of pneumonia across China. People were uneasy about every day, as if the New Year had lost its flavor. On the Internet, looking at pictures of empty streets and scenes of hospitals full of people, I saw that everyones eyes were full of the desire to survive, the kind of expectation that they would not give up in the difficult situation. In ordinary life, people always say "the world is not worth it", but in a crisis, it is "to live is to be happy". It made me see what happiness is. Happiness is when you are in good health and I try my best to live each day well. People are not no pursuit, but excessive desire will make people live uncomfortable. No matter what happens, you will always be able to give us hope in the New Year, give everyone the motivation to make a difference, and dispel the clouds of fear that hang over our hearts. You have come to us in the New Year with hope and with the pomp of spring. You gave everyone a beautiful wish to think: the day of spring flowers, flowers flourish, warbler, all things born spring garden. We live in a world of peace and prosperity, where everyone has the opportunity to pursue their dreams. Because of this desire, many people for their own homes, go to the front line, to protect the people behind them. Its not that theyre not afraid of the unknown. Its that they feel its worth it to protect everything. The New Year you bring us hope, one is connected to cherish, one is connected to change, one is connected to the unknown, one is connected to the star. This New Year, I firmly believe that everyone will cherish the future life, cherish the people around more. May we meet every year

您好，我是六(6)班的一名学生。在这间大名鼎鼎的省一级学校生活了六年。在这里，我学会了很多，是老师教会了一个个意味深长的哲理;是母校让我在知识的海洋里遨游;是母校让我快乐地生活。

一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。很快，我就要离开母校，真有点依依不舍。

在六年里，学校的变化真是翻天覆地。记得一二年级的时候，学校的运动场，一刮风，就黄沙满天，那些沙吹入我们的眼睛里真难受。一下雨凹凸不平，一不小心就会踩下去。现在一改旧貌，变得多么美丽壮壮观。许多人都攒不绝口，什么篮球比赛，都是在我校举行。因为他们人为这是天下无双的塑胶运动场。还有，以前在一楼的废水池，臭气曛天，破烂不堪。现在已经改造成另外一张面孔。是知识市场，有科学研究室，有课室，有乒乓球厅。好多了!

不过美中不足的地方是植物园里，以前一年四季都美如画卷。春天万物复苏，鸟语花香，夏天花朵万紫千红，鱼儿在嬉戏。秋天树叶变黄了，像蝴蝶似的落在地上，形成一张金黄金的毛毯。冬天它们都沉睡了。现在已经彻底地毁了容。难道校长忽视了这个地方了吗?不是的。对于这个地方，我觉得校长应该组织同学亲自种花草树木，一些同学就打扫卫生。在科技活动时，在生物圆就开放，让生物组的同学进去观察学习。

这样的话，我们学校每个角落一定会生机勃勃，闪耀着灿烂的金光。

希望我以后回来重见母校，我看到的一定是繁荣昌盛，焕然一新新的母校!

祝您工作顺利，身体健康!事业更上一层楼!

此致

敬礼!

I have watched a lot of cartoons. They are part of my life. Every day, I

will wait for the cartoon time and discuss with my friends. We share our

opinions after we watch the cartoons. I like the classic cartoons that show our

traditional culture, and I learn a lot. Though I grow up, I will never forget

the childhood memory.

Parents love is the most selfless and pure love in heaven. Birds do not fly, can only open his mouth to her mother to feed food, birds mother all the way for the birds to find food, but they could not bear to eat, this is called maternal love my mother is the same, she never stopped from my birth Love for me, when I was still toddler, not only can not share for the mother, but will only add endless trouble to her, such as: broken vases, playing a knife to hurt their own, and so often, mom Always distressed endless, but never any blame and blame. This is great maternal love. -

My mother gave me a lot of love, but sometimes I can not understand, or even misunderstanding ... ... Once, my mother let me do a few math problems, there is a question I puzzled, go to ask her mother, she told me Most of the day I still do not do, my mother was his head in his hand, secretly lost tears, although I did not cry out the sound, but the tears or a string of string down, I think: mother too do not understand Our childrens mind, and play is the childs nature, learning is secondary, why do you see so heavy mother? -

Another time, I made a dish, I think: Although children do not eat rice but the parents will say delicious. Can be a mother to eat a mouth to cover his mouth to the toilet, I asked her: "delicious?" "Not good!" Mother replied. The voice faded, I cried and said: "Why, other peoples mother to eat their own daughter to do the dishes, said delicious, but you said no good, I have no confidence." Mother listened to earnestly said: "If I want to make you happy and not tell the truth, you do not know the truth, become arrogant, so you not only can not progress, but will regress." I thought, or do not understand why my mother would think so, It is not the kind of person ah

My best friend is Jim. He is a cool boy. He has curly blond hair, big eyes

and a small mouth. He likes to eat strawberries and bananas, and he loves

sports. He often plays basketball in the school playground. He watches sports

every night. He has good manners and studies well, so everyone likes to make

friends with him.

亲爱的老师：

您好!

还记得前几天上英语课的时候，您从第一组开始点我们回答问题。

您是从第一个开始依次点起，我找出了规则。因为你的问题是要我们一人翻译一个句子。于是我兴高采烈的找起了按道理应该是我翻译的那一句。不一会二我找到了我要翻译的那一句。于是我就开是试着翻译这一句，我知到按道理我应该是翻译这一句，所以我也就没顾得上看其它的句子。终于要轮到我回答了，我刚准备站起来，却突然听到您喊的不是我的名字。我的心情犹如股票从涨到跌，这是何等的悲伤，因为全组的人都按规则点完了，唯独我一个人没点，我当时心想难到老师真的对我的英语不抱一丝希望了，我的心……我趴在了座位上。

正在这时我似呼听到了一个熟悉的名字，是的，是老师在喊我的名字。我站起来的一刹那，我既高兴有不高兴。我高兴的是老师对我的英语还抱一丝希望，我不高兴的是其它的句子我看

都没看，那回翻译。老师点起来的后果可想而知，我结结巴巴的临时翻了半句，还不知到对不对，我只见老师的书已打到我的脸上。接着我在老师的呵斥声中坐下了。

老师我想对您说几句心里话，老师我知道您之所以最后点我，是因为你怕我不会翻译那一句长的，您认为我不会翻译那句，那么我也许真的是不回翻译了。因为老师是学生一大部份原动力的源泉。还有您不应该破坏规则，也许您是好心，但是任何事物既然有它的规则，就不要去破坏它的规则。就像我读过的一篇文章中写的那样，文章里的主人公有一个蝴蝶茧，一天，小主人公看见蝴蝶即将破茧而出，看见蝴蝶捅破了一个孔，看见蝴蝶这样费劲，就把茧剪破了，果然蝴蝶很轻松的飞出来了。小主人公那知到这是害死了蝴蝶，它刚出来不久，折腾了2下，就死了。老师这些都不重要，重要的是您当着全班同学打我，我的……我说这些，老师请您不要生气。

最后祝老师工作顺利，身体键康!

您的学生

Mathematics was too difficult for me, the teacher spoke so fast that I

could not understand. I failed every math exam, my dad was very angry, he

wouldnt let me watch TV, or let me go out, I was very sad. The math teacher

always asks me to go to the office and tell me the problem. I am not afraid to

make mistakes, because I can correct them. I keep practicing, speed up my

problem, and dont forget to preview and review. In the most recent exam, I

achieved excellent results in maths. A good learner has many good learning

habits.

数学对我来说太难了，老师讲的太快，以至于我不能听懂。每次数学考试我都不及格，我的爸爸很生气，他不让我看电视，也不让我出去玩，我很难过。数学老师总是让我去办公室，给我讲题。我开始不害怕犯错，因为我还可以改正。我不断的练习，加快了我的做题速度，并且不忘记预习和复习。在最近的一次考试里，我的数学成绩达到了优秀。一个好的学习者有很多好的学习习惯。

敬爱的校长：

您好!

我一直都知道校长您是一个非常严肃的人，在每周周一的升旗仪式上，您都会无比尊敬的站在国旗下，目光注视着伴随着音乐而缓缓升起的国旗。那时候，您在我心里的这种形象就像是定格了一般，您站得笔直，面容严肃。

但在前些天，我偶然见到了您的另一面。您走在校园的里，当您的视线瞥到了散落在地上的纸屑的时候，您毫不犹豫的朝着纸屑的方向走了去，然后弯腰拾起，将纸屑放入了不远处的垃圾桶里。您的动作无比的自然，就像这样的事情您已经做了无数次一般。

说实话，在我的心里，校长您仿佛一直都是高高在上的，所以当当时我亲眼看到了这一幕的时候，心里还有不少的惊讶，校长您还是一个十分爱护校园环境的人呢。

不过，在这之后，我又看到您的另一面。您将垃圾放入了垃圾桶里之后，您看着前方校园里蹒跚着走来一位老人，您又礼貌的向前走了去，然后轻声的问道：“老人家，有什么需要帮忙的吗?”

我瞧见老人家朝您点了点头，然后用沙哑的声音问道：“我找我孙子，他记得他说他在55班来着。”校长立马冲着老人道：“我知道教室在哪，我带您过去。”说着，你就带着老人家往教学楼的方向走去了。校长，您也是一个非常有善心，并且很有礼貌的人。

这几件事让我对校长您有了更深的了解，校长您真是一个好校长。我决定了今后我要以你为榜样，努力向您学习，我要努力认真的取得优异的成绩，也要做一个充满着善心的人，还要……校长，您身上的优良品质已经足够我去学习的了。

My favorite star isSangLan. She is one of the best gymnasts in our country and she is very beautiful. Her smile like sunshine makes everyone happy.

Unluckily she was hurt badly in a contest. Since then she hasnt stood up. But she faces the fact bravely and overcomes all kinds of difficulties.

Now she is studying hard in Beijing University. She wants to do some useful things for our country after graduation. Her spirit encourages many people.

My Darling McGeorge

You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down. Well, here

with a very boring letter in which I will try to put everything down so that you

may read and re-read it at a horror at your folly in getting involved with

me.

Deep breath. To begin with ,I love you. With a depth and passion and I have

felt for no one else in this life. And if it is astonishes you, it astonished me

as well. Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving. Far from it.

Its just that, first of all,I swore I would not get involved with another

woman. Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before and it is almost

frightening. Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible that another human

being could occupy my waking and sleeping thoughts to the exclusion of almost

everything else. Fourthly, I never thought that even if one was in love one

could get so completely besotted with another person so that a minute away from

them felt like a thousand years. Fifthly, I never hoped,aspired, dreamed that

one can find everything one wanted in one person.

I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible. Yet in you I have

found everything I want: youre beautiful, gay, giving, gentle, idiotically and

deliciously feminine, sexy, wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as

well. I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch

you, your beautiful voice, your beauty, to argue with you, to laugh with you, to

show you things, to share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind, to

explore your wonderful body, to help you, protect you, serve you ,and...bash you

on the head when I think you are wrong...

Not to put too fine a point on it, I consider that I am the only man

outside mythology to have found crock of gold at the rainbows end. But, having

said all that, let us consider things in details. Dont let this become public,

but, well...I have one or two faults. Minor ones,I hasten to say. For example I

am inclined to be overbearing. I do it for the best possible motives, all

tyrants say that, but I do tend, without thinking, to treat people underfoot.

You must tell me when Im doing it to you, my sweet, because it can be a very

bad thing in a marriage.

Right, the second blemish. This actually is not so much a blemish of

character as a blemish of circumstance. Darling, I want you to be you on your

own right, and I will do everything I can to help you in this. But you must take

into consideration that I am also me in my own right. And that I have a head

start on you. What Im trying to say is that you must not feel offended if you

are sometimes treated simply as my wife. Always remember that what you lose on

the swings you gain on the roundabouts. But i am an established ‘creature’ in

the world, and so on occasions you will have to live in my shadow. Nothing gives

me less pressure than this. But it is a fact of life that has to be faced.

Third, a very important and nasty, blemish. Jealousy. I dont think you

know what jealousy is, thank god, in the real sense of the word. I know that you

have felt jealousy over Lincolns wife and child, but this is what I call normal

jealousy, and this to my regret, is not what Ive got. What I have got is a

black monster and any goodness that I have in my make-up. It is really a Jekyll

and Hyde situation... my Hyde is stronger than my good sense and defeats me,

hard though I try. As I told you, I have always known that this lurks within me,

but I could control it, and my monster slumbered and nothing happened to awake

it. Then I met you and I felt my monster stir and become half-awake when you

told me of Lincoln and others you have known, would you like to end with your

letter my monster came out of its lair, black, irrational, bigoted, stupid,

evil, malevolent. You never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is; It is a

physical pain as though you have swallowed acid or red hot coals. It is the most

terrible of feelings. But you cant help it at least I cant and god knows Ive

tried. I dont want any ex-boyfriends sitting in church when I marry you. On our

wedding day I want nothing but happiness both for you and me, but I know I wont

be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests. When I marry you I will

have no past, only a future. I dont want to drag my past into our future and I

dont want you to do it, either. Remember I am jealous of you because I love

you. You are never jealous of something you dont care about.

Okay enough about jealousy. Now let me tell you something. I have seen a

thousand sunsets and sunrises, in a thousand sunsets and sunrises on land where

it floods forest mountains with honey-coloured light, at sea where it rises and

sets like a blood orange in a multi-coloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out

of the vast ocean. I have seen thousand moons. Harvest moon is like gold coins,

winter moons as white as ice chips, new moons like baby swans feathers. I have

seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blues as a

kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving

ponderously and murderously. I have felt winds straight from the south pole,

bleak and wailing like a lost child; Winds as tender and warm as a lovers

breath; Winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of

seaweeds; Winds during the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a

million flowers. Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or

winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten. Ive known silence:

the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; The implacable stony

silence of a deep cave; The hot, drugged midday silence when everything is

everything is hypnotized and still moved into silence by the eye of the sun. The

silence when great music ends. Ive heard that summer cicadas cry so that the

sound seems stitched into your bones. Ive heard a tree frogs in an

orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million

emerald fireflies. Ive heard the Keas calling over the grey glaciers that

groaned to themselves like old people as they inched. Their way to the sea. Ive

heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating Fur seals as they sang to

their sleek golden wives, the crisp staccato admonishment of the rattlesnake,

make the cobweb squeak of the Bat and the belling roar of the red deer knee-deep

in purple heather. Ive heard wolves baying at a winters moon, read howlers

making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries. Ive heard the squeak, purr

and grunt of a hundred multi-coloured reef fishes. I’ve seen hamming birds

flashing like opals round a tree of scarlets blooms, humming like a top. I have

seen flying fish skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing

silver lines on the surface with their tails. Ive seen Spoonbills flying home

to roost like a scarlet banner crossed the sky. Ive seen Whales, black as tar,

cushioned on a cornflower blue sea,creating a Versailles of fountain with their

breath. I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun

irons their wings smooth. I watch tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass.

I have been dive -bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as the Devils

hoof. Ive lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a

host of Dolphins. I have met a thousand animals and see a thousand wonderful

things.

All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with

you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of

one minute of your company, for your love, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips,

body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting

quarry, in which it is my privilege to delve.

Gerald Durrell