Housman, Laurence to Mrs. Bland [Edith Nesbit], 1893-1894?

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005.002.1.2.1.072

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Years inferred from notation by researcher.

Scope and Contents

"Dear Mrs Bland, I couldn't decide myself, so I asked the Holy Bible to come and help me. I shut my eyes and let my fingers go at random. This, when I looked, is what I read. "He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made." Which means that I was fool enough to let you see me losing my head in a charade; and so now I am in for it..."