The uncle sent a box of toys and sweets, things that were like a vision from another and a brighter world.

Besides that Alice had a knife, a pair of shut-up scissors, a silk handkerchief, a book--it was The Golden Age and is Ai except where it gets mixed with grown-up nonsense.

Also a work-case lined with pink plush, a boot-bag, which no one in their senses would use because it had flowers in wool all over it.

And she had a box of chocolates and a musical box that played 'The Man who broke' and two other tunes, and two pairs of kid gloves for church, and a box of writing-paper--pink--with 'Alice' on it in gold writing, and an egg coloured red that said 'A.
Bastable' in ink on one side.

These gifts were the offerings of Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Albert's uncle, Daisy, Mr Foulkes (our own robber), Noel, H.O., father and Denny.