This letter was presumably sent as a matter of courtesy, since it does little more than duplicate the information already provided in the writer’s previous letter of eight days previously.

The writing paper bears the embossed letterhead:

MELLIS RECTORY,
        EYE, SUFFOLK.

19 Mar. 1909. Dear Sir,         I wonder was the lady in Dublin my cousin – Jane Anne Leeper, 11 Woodstock Rd. Ranelagh, Dublin! – She is much interested in all questions archeological and antiquarian –         Yes, there is a chevron & 3 leopards heads on the shield – crest – a leopard’s head – motto – pro rege et patria. Mellis is a village of some 500 people – station on main line between Ipswich & Norwich – junction for small town of Eye –         Mellis in our old registers is Melles.             Yours very truly,     Wm. Clarke Leeper.

William Clarke Leeper to William Leiper