The original envelope was labelled in Aelfrida Tillyard's hand: 'Alethea's letters from S. Mary's Abbey, Malling, S. Thomas' Hospital etc etc. 1933-34. One letter from her father to her. Dec 29 1933 (?his last)'. They are addressed variously from the Katherine Low Settlement, Battersea, April 1933; St Mary's Abbey, West Malling, Kent, Sep - Nov 1933; St Thomas' Hospital, London [where Alethea was having an operation], 23 Nov - 11 Dec 1933; St Mary's, West Malling, 21 Dec 1933 - 7 Feb 1934; and Wetenhall Cottage, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge 16 May 1934; and include a letter to Alethea from her father, Constantine Graham, 29 Dec 1933. The letter of 3 April 1933 concerns Alethea's calling to St Mary's and her discussions on the subject with Margaret Deanesly [now Sr. Radegund at St Mary's] - 'I think it is the only thing I can do'. In the letter of 8 October 1933 Alethea discusses the illness of her father. 30 Jan 1934 is a short letter concerning the death of her father.