Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster''s novel Daddy-Long-Legs. First published in 1915, it was among the top ten best sellers in the US in 1916. The story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott''s classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are Judy; Jervis Pendleton, Judy''s husband and the president of the orphanage where Sallie is filling in until a new superintendent can be installed; Gordon Hallock, a wealthy Congressman and Sallie''s later fiancé; and the orphanage''s doctor, embittered Scotsman Robin ''Sandy'' MacRae (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: ''Dear Enemy''). Webster employs the epistolary structure to good effect; Sallie''s choices of what to recount to each of her correspondents reveal a lot about her relationships with them. (Wikipedia)