Oh Dear Mary. / after next / Sunday any Sunday to the / end of April. / Shall we say Sunday week. / - THERE ARE NOW AT / THIS PRESENT HOUR. / EIGHT LITTLE BEARS / there - each one a King's / ransom in preciousness - / to the families and a / cause of driveling to the / beholder. / and I will see a blue book - / every page like this / I Bear I 5 I 2.7 I 0 I 99.3 I honey. I / I Lion I 3 I 29.0 I 7 I .3 I ?. / and I will take it & put / in hand of statesman to / support him / No grown ups - you & me / & statesman & babies. / & I will dine with you / that night. - & we will examine him - / What is fur? / Why is fur? / When is fur? / Whence is fur? / all from the Bears point of / view - not one answer / to be given from the / mans point of view - / etc. he goes down ten / places. / this we must insist upon - / no answer to be admitted / that ? man for / one moment. Blue / book answers of no / use in our examination: / I caught a friend's / cold at that President's / music party - & have / not been out since. / Oh such a cold - and / one night I was so / reduced & so / cross that I said / I wished I had never known / Leighton. / poor host that meant no / harm. / But it was miserable to / get such a cold - & / indeed the house was / a hurricane to ap. / I was furious when ? / told me you were ill / again never be ill / again / 'cos you are so much beloved. / Shall we say Sunday 19th. or would you like 26th better / it would do as well for me. / We'll teach him Bears, / Elephants, & wombats. / that will be enough for / one day. perhaps owls / but not too much the / first time. / we won't dogmatize - that / puts peoples' backs up - we / will talk fur-speaking of / it as a recognised divine / institution - admittedly of no / argument or debate - we / will talk fur. / So of the Elephant - where / fur is less obvious - but / its equivalent recognised by / the truly initiated. / about all these subtle / matters I think our / Comedia is so deep that / it will prevail. / dear George I am so sorry. / give them all my love - / overworked these days I am / but the Bear party will / refresh me mightily / Yoraffc. [drawing of a seated bear]