The things were just what I wanted, and all the better for being made instead of bought.

Beth's new 'ink bib' was capital, and Hannah's box of hard gingerbread will be a treasure.

I'll be sure and wear the nice flannels you sent, Marmee, and read carefully the books Father has marked.

Thank you all, heaps and heaps! Speaking of books reminds me that I'm getting rich in that line, for on New Year's Day Mr.Bhaer gave me a fine Shakespeare.

It is one he values much, and I've often admired it, set up in the place of honor with his German Bible, Plato, Homer, and Milton, so you may imagine how I felt when he brought it down, without its cover, and showed me my own name in it, "from my friend Friedrich Bhaer".
"You say often you wish a library.