Salacious suppositions notwithstanding...

Roderick Duskford-Robbins Esq said...

Gosh - intrigue! PFHH is indeed Peke-like in the extreme! Saw Lovegoode (albeit alone at the time) at Ascot , but smelt distinctly of that frangipane scent, of which old Nelly is fond... methinks PFHH had spotted me making my way through the crowds, holding aloft the Canard-Duchêne '37 and had absquatulated before yours truly arrived.

Also, will you be at the Motts Finchley Symposium next Thurs?

My dear cousin thrice removed, Roderick,

As always, your delight in calumny is most salacious. I was only last night visiting with your sister Ephigenia, who told me the diabolical tale of your and Gilpy's altercation with the entourage of the Sultan of Quimp after you spread the story of his dalliance with Her Majesty's cattle! Honestly I cannot imagine how you escaped with your head yet on your shoulders (I can only imagine it was, as usual, Gilpy's quick wit that extracted you from this well deserved fate).

As usual, hearing from you fills me with loathing and disgust, (and with it, a strong sense of nostalgia for our childhood). On principle, I shall disregard your comments as spurious until such time as I hear otherwise from a more reliable source.

I shall indeed be at the Motts Finchley Symposium, where I am giving a talk on my latest findings regarding the mating behaviour of the Nymphalis Antiopa I have been studying. I shall entertain you and Gilpmed in my suite at the Dorchester thereafter, where I shall introduce you to my new companion, Hung, a charming and erudite fellow with whom I became well acquainted during my travels in Western Zananialand at the beginning of the year. Kindly ensure that you wear nothing of the colour purple about your persons, as Hung finds the colour disturbing in the extreme and is often thrown into fits of uncontrollable rage when in its proximity.

I trust that you will avoid calamity between now and our next meeting. All my best to Gilpmed, and do tell him that if he can bring himself to wear some kind of ceremonial garb when we meet, I shall be enchanted.

Yours,
Meredith

Gosh - intrigue!

PFHH is indeed Peke-like in the extreme! Saw Lovegoode (albeit alone at the time) at Ascot , but smelt distinctly of that frangipane scent, of which old Nelly is fond... methinks PFHH had spotted me making my way through the crowds, holding aloft the Canard-Duchêne '37 and had absquatulated before your truly arrived.

Also, will you be at the Motts Finchley Symposium next Thurs?

From the desk of Meredith Finkley Snit-Bottomly

My darlings,

I trust this finds you both well in the extreme. I am forwarding this to you care of Sir Terry at the Lo Horongo Gorongo and hope it will find you wherever it is that you have most recently wandered.

Enclosed are what I have managed to decipher from the rubbings received from Watford, though I had a deuced difficult time with the third line, smeared as it was with some viscous liquid that obscured an already obscure script!

Terribly intrigued by the implications of the stone... rather tempted to catch up with you at some point to discuss in person. Any chance of an appearance at the Chapter's Yule celebration? Much hilarity is promised with Sudsy revealing her most recent findings regarding the mating habits of Ursidae Helarctos malayanus, while Clarinda Finch-Newtley has promised to share her most recent etchings recounting her time among the algerines!

I am coincidentally in London at the time (blasted British Museum is insisting that I spend some time there 'earning my keep' – by which they mean rubbing shoulders with halitosis-prone geriatrics and flashing bosom at the large bank accounts while regaling them with anecdotes about my latest adventures among the bones). It would be smashing to see you and compare notes on recent findings and acquisitions.

Watford, I enclose a pressing of a delightful Nymphalis antiopa recently encountered during my tour across American north. You will notice that the customary blue markings along the wing tips are instead the most astonishing shade of puce! I would be most appreciative of any thoughts you may have in this area – an anomaly or an entirely new sub-species??

I trust that you will convey my fondest regards to your dashing cousin Wilbur and when next you speak do let him know that I am utterly exfluncticated on hearing of his repeated dalliance last year with that atrocious Prunella Fitz-Hump-Humphrey. Honestly, the woman looks like a Pekinese!

Trusting that our paths will cross afore too long.

In darkness and in light,
your friend Merry