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Written by Pat Clarke, secretary to Innes Rose.

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Written by Innes Rose.

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Written by Innes Rose.

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"Dear Mrs. Bland, I hope you are bounding with good health and energy! This summer was very hectic: the stomach disorder took some time to clear up and to add to the excitement Mrs. Doris Langley Moore cut up rough about the programme. Dear Maurice warded her off, I suppose he used his superabundant Irish charm and he is now very pleased with himself..."

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"Dear Mrs Bland, I hope you are enjoying this 'long hot summer'--unfortunately most of the time I am cooped up in school, which, since it is an old monastery, the walls are over four feet thick so that the sun never penetrates to distract us. Worse luck. I think I have found you a lady who is a whizz on copyright and how to renew it. Her name is Dorothy Edwards..."

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"Dear Mrs Bland, Just a quick note to say that there has been a change in the transmission time for the programme on E. Nesbit. It has been brought forward, and will now go out at 10.15pm on the 11th MAY..."

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"Dear Mrs. Bland, I hope I'm not imposing on your good nature too much in my enthusiasm, but I just thought you'd like to see a copy of Hubert Bland's Birth Certificate, as his mother's maiden name is... LACEY. So perhaps HB's sister helped her aunt run the school, or the family had shares in it?!..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs. Bland, I expect you have forgotten me from among your myriad visitors this summer--I'm the one writing the programme for the BBC. As promised, here is one of Hubert Bland's obituary notices from the Woolwich "Pioneer". I'm afraid my dog ate the two from the 'Sunday Chronicle's 'Evening Chronicle'-Danny has pens--Nipper archive material! The Research Assistant at [Greenwich? Greenotch?] found this particular article. She found the 'Miss Lacey' school on Woolwich Common in a...