From Maria Herford, wife of Professor C.H. Herford (Professor of English Literature at Manchester University, 1901-21), and mother of Siegfried Herford, an old friend of CEM's who was killed in the War and one of the book's 3 dedicatees. She expresses her own and her husband's appreciation at the honour done to "our boy" by CEM's dedication and praises `Another Temple Gone', the only story in the volume which she has read as yet.
Dated at: Manchester.