Dear Jeril... Love, Dad

As a Father's Day gift Wayne Anderson's oldest daughter Jerilyn, often called Jeril, presented him with a fat three-hole notebook containing the letters and stories he had written her from the time she was twenty until she was thirty-eight—from 1977 to 1995.

It was one of his dearest Father's Day gifts ever. And it was an especially appropriate gift as she had been an avid reader since childhood a...