Mitchison, Naomi to Thomas Tucker, 16th

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

"Dear Mr Tucker, It was very nice of you to think of writing to me. I never expected it, because I saw what had happened in the papers. These things are bad enough in ordinary life, but when it is woman like your wife it makes a public tragedy. She must have had an incalculable effect on the minds of children, just when they are old enough to get the full force of an idea, for the last twenty years..."