The Magic of Oz

To My Readers

Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last

few years in our "great outside world," we may find incidents so

marvelous and inspiring that I cannot hope to equal them with stories of

The Land of Oz.

However, "The Magic of Oz" is really more strange and unusual than

anything I have read or heard about on our side of The Great Sandy Desert

which shuts us off from The Land of Oz, even during the past exciting

years, so I hope it will appeal to your love of novelty.

A long and confining illness has prevented my answering all the good

letters sent me--unless stamps were enclosed--but from now on I hope to

be able to give prompt attention to each and every letter with which my

readers favor me.

Assuring you that my love for you has never faltered and hoping the

Oz Books will continue to give you pleasure as long as I am able to write

them, I am

Yours affectionately, L. FRANK BAUM, "Royal Historian of Oz."

OZCOT" at HOLLYWOOD in CALIFORNIA 1919