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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, personal letterhead, June 13, 1935. Letter to an admirer, responding to some inquiries about Mary Poppins, in part: "What a nice letter and what good drawings! I particularly liked the little chicken leaping out of its egg. I have added that egg to the ones I got at Easter and I believe it is the nicest of them all. Easter is my favourite time of the year because it means that the winter is over and the spring flowers are here. And I am particularly interested in these as I have a garden away in the wilds of Sussex and it is at its loveliest in the Spring. My little old house is one of the oldest in England. It is known to have been standing in the year 1290 but it is thought that it was first built even earlier than that. Now it is thatched with straw but about a hundred years ago it was thatched with furze and people who know all about these things tell me that it must originally have been thatched with calf-skins and horses' hides. So you see this is just the kind of place 'Mary Poppins' would be likely to choose to be written in.
I am glad you liked 'Bad Tuesday.' It is one of my favourites, too. No, Michael was not supposed to be dreaming. He really was being naughty and going through one of those days when we all feel rather cross and discontented. And after a day like that it seems to me that we always feel very good and pleasant. Anyway, that's how I used to feel and that's how Michael felt. But he wasn't dreaming. I can't explain it very well because magic should never be explained. We just have to accept the strange and wonderful things it does without question. That's how I feel about it, anyway. Besides, Mary Poppins, herself, never explains anything, as you know and I am sure she would sniff and say something cross if I tried to!
The starling in 'John and Barbara's story' now lives outside my window and he is very busy bringing up his third brood of the season. His name is Robey, after the English comedian because he sits up in the apple-tree telling funny stories all day long, so that Mrs. Robey may be amused while she sits on the nest. At this moment he is shouting a particularly funny one to her and she is probably laughing but as the nest is hidden under the thatch I can't be quite sure of that." In very good to fine condition, with faint toning, two tiny edge chips, and a small area of paper loss in the top blank area.
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