Two ALSs, signed "Blue" and "A. A Milne," three pages in total, dated July 2, 1920, and November 27, 1942. Both letters are addressed to close friend Vincent Seligman. The earlier letter, penned on Mallord Street letterhead, in part: "I am afraid that my wife won't be able to go out now until after September, but it is very nice of Mrs. Seligman to ask us. She hopes very much that Mrs. Seligman will come and see her later on, but meanwhile won't you come to tea with me, and meet the elephant? What about Tuesday afternoon?" The second letter, with Milne adding "C. F, H. S.," for Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex, in part: "I shall now answer your questions…1. Moon. A fortnight after he'd got his commission he came back on embarkation leave, and sailed on August 26th. He shouldn't have gone really but wrangled himself into the place of an officer on leave…he arrives at Irak on Nov 3rd, and I suppose will be there for a bit: anyway, we haven't heard since…2. My dear major, the world is my oyster, and I am Palladium of all the civil, political and religious styles. Of course that was my article; and if you didn't think it was funny, you should see a doctor about having those red tabs cut out…3. Your intelligence officer, dear D. A. D. O., is at fault again. The author in question gives me The Perfect Alibi, which is what The Fourth Wall was called in America…Hence the pyramids. 4. The novel after lying fallow for a bit is now in cultivation again, and prospects are farmable." Milne adds a short poem for a postscript, "A force, however badly paid, owes / its striking power to its DADOS; / from toilet paper down to pistol / it owes it all to DADOS Bristol." In overall fine condition, with creasing to the top of one of the letters.
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