Day: October 26, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

You’ve Got Mail: Princesses Say the Darnedest Things

In this week’s mail bag, a touch of levity and an epic scandal. A letter to American raconteur Alexander Woollcott from British author Marie Belloc Lowndes dated April 28, 1937, begins, “Dearest Alec, Here are two little news stories of those royal children.” I wish I’d come across this letter back in June during the…