A Wreath for Rivera

From Lord Pastern and Bagott to his niece Miss Carlisle Wayne:

3, Duke’s Gate

Eaton Place

London, S.W.I

Dear Lisle,

I hear you’ve came back. Your aunt tells me she’s asked you to visit us. Come on the third and we’ll give you some music. Your aunt’s living with me again.

Your affectionate Uncle George

From “The Helping Hand,” G.P.F.’s page in Harmony:

Dear G.P.F.

I am eighteen and unofficially engaged to be married. My fiancé is madly jealous and behaves in a manner that I consider more than queer and terribly alarming. I enclose details under separate cover because after all he might read this and then we should be in the soup. Also five shillings for a special Personal Chat letter. Please help me.

“Toots”

Poor Child in Distress, let me help you if I can. Remember I shall speak as a man and that is perhaps well, for the masculine mind is able to understand this strange self-torture that is clouding your fiancé’s love for you and making you so unhappy. Believe me, there is only one way. You must be patient. You must prove your love by your candour. Do not tire of reassuring him that his suspicions are groundless. Remain tranquil. Go on loving him. Try a little gentle laughter but if it is unsuccessful do not continue. Never let him think you impatient. A thought. There are some natures so delicate and sensitive that they must be handled like flowers. They need sun. They must be tended. Otherwise their spiritual growth is checked. Your Personal Chat letter will reach you to-morrow.

Footnote to G.P.F.’s page.

G.P.F. will write you a very special Personal Chat if you send a stamped and addressed envelope and five-shilling postal order to “Personal Chat. Harmony. 5 Materfamilias Lane, E.C. 2.”

From Miss Carlisle Wayne to Miss Félicité de Suze:

Friars Pardon

Benham

Bucks.

Dear Fée,

I’ve had rather a queer letter from Aunt Cile, who wants me to come on the third. What have you been up to?

Love,

Lisle

From the Honourable Edward Manx to Miss Carlisle Wayne: