GCPP Parkes 7/30-36. Including one letter from Margaret Howitt to Marie Belloc Lowndes offering her condolences on the death of Bessie in 1925. Some of the letters are signed 'Meggie'. Letters dated 1891, 1904 and 1914 are addressed from Austria. Letters dated 1916 onwards are addressed from Launceston, Cornwall. The letters reminisce about family and mutual friends, including Margaret’s mother, Mary; her sister, Anna Mary; and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Margaret also talks of her friends Julia Franckenstein and Nannie Leigh Smith. She talks at length in 1904 of her brother [Alfred William Howitt, 1830-1908, Australian anthropologist and explorer]. She follows the literary careers of Bessie’s children, Hilaire Belloc and Marie Belloc Lowndes, with interest. In 1916 she describes her escape from Austria at the beginning of World War I.