1 Brick Court, Temple E.C. Dated 11th March 1916 - Is glad the book reached him, and that [George Foot?] Moore's book is helpful; is working on 'Folk-Lore in the Bible'; is interested to hear about the Feltwell living; his nephew [John Steggall] has been appointed to a ship, and Lilly's nephew [Cecil Dodd?] has a commission in a line regiment; have good accounts of Lilly's children in Stockholm [Charles] and Paris [Lilly].
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee. Dated Thursday [May 1916?] - Was very amused by the story of the lady in the bath; John Jr. is on leave from his ship, while Frances was visiting; Frances is going to London and then to France; has just seen an 'aeroplane' floating over their heads; the nearest bomb raid was at Carnoustie.
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee. Dated June 6, 1916 - Thanks him for his sympathy [on the death of her son John in the war], asks him to wait to visit, Frances is getting leave to come home; they've received over 300 letters of condolence including a telegram from the King and Queen.
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee. Dated June 13th, 1916 - Thanks him for his sympathy [on the death of her brother John in the war], will go back to Rouen next week; thanks him for writing to [Francis and Amy?] Burkitt; finds John's death a 'blank' and part of the waste of the war.
Announces the death of J. W. A. Steggall.
52 Grange Road, Ramsgate - Discusses the number of pairs in the flood legend; is sorry to hear of Frazer's nephew's death [John William Abbot Steggall]; his son [Edward John Benedict Manners?], who has served in Gallipoli and on the Somme is safe.
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Was very amused by the story of the lady in the bath; John Jr. is on leave from his ship, while Frances was visiting; Frances is going to London and then to France; has just seen an 'aeroplane' floating over their heads; the nearest bomb raid was at Carnoustie.
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Reports that his son John has been killed in action in a naval engagement. Accompanied by a cutting from the 'Dundee Courier' 5 June 1916 headed 'Dundee Officer lost in Naval Battle'.
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Thanks him for his sympathy [on the death of her son John in the war], asks him to wait to visit, Frances is getting leave to come home; they've received over 300 letters of condolence including a telegram from the King and Queen.
Woodend, Perth Road, Dundee - Thanks him for his sympathy [on the death of her brother John in the war], will go back to Rouen next week; thanks him for writing to [Francis and Amy?] Burkitt; finds John's death a 'blank' and part of the waste of the war.