Nesbit, Edith to Lord Dunsany, 1910

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Researcher's notes in the margin speculate that this was written in 1910.

"Dear Lord Dunsany, Thank you very much for your book. It is a beautiful book and I sat down on a packing case amid waves of straw and tissue paper that surge round us at this time - because my daughter is just going to be married and life seems all packing and unpacking - and read in your book for a half hour which I ought to have spent on seeing to wedding things..."