Dear Lady, I hope this pigeon finds you safely … I told it to find Athena ‘cos I didn’t know if you was at the cottage or in Prussia or at the ends of the earth. I am well. Our Chief Steward says my penmanship has improved but it still has a long ways to…
BY HAND Dear Lady Claire, Thank you for your tube of yesterday’s date. I am pleased you are safely returned to London, and hope I will have the pleasure of seeing you before you journey to Prussia to begin your university career. In a strange coincidence, you may have read in the Evening Standard this…
PRIORITY POST Mr. Andrew Malvern Number 6, Orpington Close London Dear Andrew, I am on my way—in fact, by the time you receive this tube, I will likely already have moored in the field adjacent to what remains of Toll Cottage. You are quite correct … while it has been a joy to be with…
Lady Claire Trevelyan Gwynn Place St. Just-in-Rosewall Cornwall Claire, Have no fear for the children—they are with me. Toll Cottage, I very much regret to tell you, burned to the ground last night under circumstances which are murky at best. Lewis, being a young man of surprising resourcefulness for one normally so timid, realized at…
Lady Claire Trevelyan Gwynn Place St. Just-in-Rosewall Cornwall Dear Lady Claire, It is with shock and great distress that I must inform you of a most unfortunate incident in which I fear I must bear some of the blame. I beg your forgiveness, though in your place I should find it hard to do so….