The original envelope was labelled in Aelfrida Tillyard's hand: Alethea's letters beginning on M V Capetown Castle [7] Nov 1948. Letter-writing from St Cuthbert's resumes on 28 November 1948; letters are also addressed from Port St John's / Umtata May 1949; Pietermaritzburg, Natal June and July 1949; St Bede's College, Umtata August Sept 1949; and the Mkambati Leper Institution December 1949. The file includes a letter written jointly with Julius Tillyard 18 April 1949.