Scope and Contents The letter is begun on 20 March and continued on 22 March. Bessie is still recovering from scarlet fever. She replies to Barbara’s concerns that she had gone to Liverpool in the first place and explains the background to the trip, namely the need to see Aubrey Bowen off from Liverpool and to help Mary Merryweather with her work immediately after the death of Mary’s mother. She says that M M never liked Adelaide [Procter] and ‘dreaded her Catholicism’. There have also been various other...