MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/27
My dear Arthur
I should have written yesterday only that the Bp of Salisbury came to see a sick old farming man, and was a sight for sair een, who took up all my morning. I shall look out for the Maypole – my Sub is going to bring up the weeded Spiders this afternoon- 17 Chrysostoms! I think your Spider will have five competitors with the Aryans. I fully expect someone will take them for the heretics – as by the bye someone did by your friends the Dolomites.1
Well, I congratulate you with all my heart and hope some day I may be worthy to hear the rest of her name2
Wat Tyler had not always been a tyler but had been abroad in the service of a merchant- (Query was he the original mad hatter?) 3 So he must have learnt to ride on that expedition any way, and it was hard if he could not pick up a horse on his expeditions to London. I think I shall set that rebellion as a question to the Spiders only I can’t do it yet as one spider is gone to Bermuda, and another to Cannes, and they had their questions before hand, I must stick to what I have given them. There are about 80 in all, but happily they never answer all at once.
yours very sincerely
[the letter is unsigned, though the paper is whole]