Monthly Archives: June 2013

BY HAND Dear Lady Claire, Thank you for your tube of yesterday’s date. I am pleased you are safely returned to London, and hope I will have the pleasure of seeing you before you journey to Prussia to begin your university career. In a strange coincidence, you may have read in the Evening Standard this…

PRIORITY POST Mr. Andrew Malvern Number 6, Orpington Close London Dear Andrew, I am on my way—in fact, by the time you receive this tube, I will likely already have moored in the field adjacent to what remains of Toll Cottage. You are quite correct … while it has been a joy to be with…

Lady Claire Trevelyan Gwynn Place St. Just-in-Rosewall Cornwall Claire, Have no fear for the children—they are with me. Toll Cottage, I very much regret to tell you,  burned to the ground last night under circumstances which are murky at best. Lewis, being a young man of surprising resourcefulness for one normally so timid, realized at…

Lady Claire Trevelyan Gwynn Place St. Just-in-Rosewall Cornwall Dear Lady Claire, It is with shock and great distress that I must inform you of a most unfortunate incident in which I fear I must bear some of the blame. I beg your forgiveness, though in your place I should find it hard to do so.…

Lady, this here come for you this morning. I hope I did right to send it on, seeing as Granny P. said I ought not to bother you with foreign nonsense. All quiet here. Respectfully, Lewis Lady Claire Trevelyan Toll Cottage Vauxhall Gardens London Dear Lady Claire, It is with the greatest pleasure that I…