Molly MakeBelieve Author:Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was a nationally recognized American author. She was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal. She attended Radcliffe College, and then worked as a secretary and teacher at Lowell State Normal School. She went on to publish seventy-five short stories and fourteen romantic novels. Molly Make-Believe was publishe... more »d in 1910. Carl Stanton suffers from rheumatism He is bored and suffering with a great deal of pain. He has asked his fianc‚ to write to him while she is away, but her letters come infrequently. She sends him a ridiculous circular which she sees as fitting his passion for letters. He responds and a series of letters follow. Carl is no longer bored and he has gained something more that he never quite expected.« less