{"product_id":"2940013700802","title":"The Vermilion Box ([1917])","description":"letters in this book, which throw some A light on social England under the war, were written between the latter part of 1914 and 1916. I have selected only the more significant ones for publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of the correspondents are related to each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Richard Haven, who writes oftenest, is today (1916) a bachelor on the brink of fifty. He has a share in a conveyancing practice in Bedford Row and lives in that little creek at Knightsbridge called Mills Buildings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld Mrs. Haven, his mother, lives at Aylesbury, with her granddaughter, Anne Wiston, as companion. Mrs. Haven's four daughters, who are all married, are Kate, Joan, Helen, and Margaret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Haven married George Wiston, a country brewer, much older than herself, who retired in 1912. Their children are Anne, born in 1890,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Olive, born in 1893. Olive became engaged to her cousin, Dick Bernal, in June 1914. The Wistons live at Chislehurst.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Wiston's sister Maude, now a widow, married a barrister named Clayton-Mills. They had a son Archibald, born in 1884, who became an artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Haven's second daughter, Joan, married Theodore Lastways, of Pember \u0026amp; Lastways, stockbrokers, who died in 1909, leaving her very comfortably off. They had one daughter, Violet, born in 1892, and one son, John, born in 1898. Mrs. Lastways lives at Lancaster Gate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Haven married a soldier, now Lieut.-Col. Sir Vincent Starr, who is on the Staff. They had one son, Toby, born in 1895. Lady Starr lives near Shoreham in Kent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Haven married Digby Bernal of the Record Office. Dick, their only son, was in the regular Army when the war broke out. Nancy, their only daughter, was born in 1894. They live on Campden Hill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigby Bernal's sister Ruth married in 1904 a young cavalry officer named Terence Derrick. They have two children, Bimbo and Teenie. Their home is at Minchinhampton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the other people who write or receive letters—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Sutherland is an old friend of Richard Haven and is now a Unitarian minister in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarclay Vaughan is another old friend of Richard Haven and is now a Professor at Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Park-Stanmer, the wife of a commanding officer stationed at Sandwich, was at school with Lady Starr.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Hermione Huntresse was at school with Nancy Bernal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJerry Harding is the son of a Northumberland J.P. and a friend of Toby Starr","brand":"tbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169951072496,"sku":"2940013700802","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013700802_p0.jpg?v=1763584178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013700802","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}