Nesbit, Edith to Ada Breakell, 1884-05-16

Transcribed copy of the original letter.

Researcher's notation speculates that this letter was written after 1884-05-16, and then indicates that "surely" it was written after the summer of 1885.

"The said Society is getting rather large now and includes some very nice people, of whom Mr Stapelton is the nicest and a certain G.B.Shaw the most interesting. G.B.S. has a fund of dry Irish humour that is simple irresistible. He is a very clever writer and speaker - Is the grossest flatterer (of men women and children impartially) I ever met, is horribly untrustworthy as he repeats everything he hears, and does not always stick to the truth, and is very plain like a long corpse with dead white face - sandy sleek hair, and a loathsome small straggly beard, and yet is one of the most fascinating men I ever met..."