| Content Description | Explains that she is writing after several previous incomplete attempts; the house is in a turmoil as 'Sam' [Samuel King, her brother-in-law] is leaving that night for Glasgow where he starts a new job and 'Pam' [Emily Una, his wife] will shortly join him; notes that she and her father [John Arthur Lawrence] will have to find new digs and is concerned about the effect on him at his age; tells her that 'Eddie' [William Edwin Clarke] has taken a small shop in Ripley and they will marry early the following year; asks if Louie has heard from 'Bert' since he left for Germany; presumes she has heard of his new novel 'The Trespasser' which was recently published [23 May 1912] but has yet to be reviewed in the Daily News [was reviewed 21 June]; supposes Nell [Helen] Corke was at Jessie's at Whitsun but is glad she did not see them; asks how Louie is getting on with school and imagines she must look an 'awful swell' in all her new 'toggery'; exhorts her to get all she can out of life for 'at the most it doesn't amount to much'; signed 'Yrs very sincerely Ada'
La B 207/2: Envelope addressed to Miss Louie Burrows, Coteshael, Cheveney Lane, Quorn, Leicestershire; bears a red one penny stamp postmarked in Eastwood Nottingham at 9 pm on 10 June 1912. |