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[Postcard with a sketch of a house.]

"Oakshott Hanger."

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Transcribed copy of the original letter.

The date is pencilled in by a researcher.

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Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Date is pencilled in by a researcher.

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[Sketch of a crying or sweating drunk man in an arm chair, surrounded by empty liquor bottles and general clutter on the floor around him.]

"Dear Aunt - Jimmy has left me - he is with the Wells - I miss him very much - this place does not seem the same without him. I had a letter from him this morning - he seems to be having a very good time - motoring and all sorts of joys..."

Scope and Contents "Dear Mrs Bland - 'Up at a villa, down in the city' - you understand, don't you. This is a dreadful place - (I thought it delightful at first) full of unintelligent and uninteresting people - littered up by electric trams - bathed in mud - rainy - but such a splendid place to work (for time refer to letter that I am writing to Jimmy the same evening). Only the students are so stupid and dead - they haven't the vaguest idea of what they want to do - just sit and drinking in the [mutterings?]...

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"Dear Madam, I shall be very glad indeed to give you any help I can with E. Nesbit's biography. I had and have the greatest affection for her. I shall not be in Town so far as I know during August but shall be back by about Sept. 14 - possibly earlier..."

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"Dear Mrs Langley Moore. I must write and tell you how admirable I think your biography of Mrs. Bland is. I was, as you probably gathered, very fond of her, and I wouldn't have believed it possible that anyone who never knew her could have produced such a true - and at the same time - sympathetic portrait of her. I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart..."