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A letter from Fletcher accepting the portrait proposal with pity for the artist who has to do it, with five letters from the artist A. Neville Lewis, who found Fletcher delightful but difficult to draw.

Concerning Hankey.

Trinity College. Druids, Walter Morley Fletcher has become a father.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Invites Marsh to come here if he has any spare days between now and 'next Saturday week', the 15th. There will be no-one here but [Walter Morley?] Fletcher and [Robert Hawthorn?] Kitson, who come on Saturday and leave on Monday; much to see and do here 'but the not-doing is the best part of it'. Tells Marsh to 'imagine paradise, only with a big modern red-brick imitation Elizabethan-house in it, and two Eves, both over forty, instead of one [perhaps Bob's mother and governess?]' and he will 'have the place'. The journey there by train is easy. Bob will have to work in the mornings.

Accompanied by an offprint from the Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Communications, Vol. XVIII, "More Old Playing Cards Found in Cambridge" by W. M. Fletcher, 1915.