This letter has been included because it was written around the same time as Nash’s third letter and, similarly, bemoans the fact that Silvia has disappeared without explanation, to what Paul describes as an ‘abandoned resort’.
It is addressed to Miss Baker from an admirer who is upset that ‘you did not look me up before you went away and so disappointed me… but better for you to be a mermaid by the sea’.
It seems he was the English teacher at the school where Silvia taught elocution once a week. He lived at 1 Wellesley Road in Sutton (not far from where her mother was then living) but his signature is illegible. The ‘girls’ were very disappointed that Silvia had departed and, in her absence, he was having to take their poetry lessons. He closes his letter in verse: