Marguerite has returned to the United States and is spending the summer in Hanover, New Hampshire with her grandparents before starting her senior years of high school in Baltimore. Maude writes that on July 10, the Battle of Britain had begun: aerial warfare between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe across southern England. A few days after Maude’s letter, the first air-raid and bombing on Liverpool would occur, on August 28, 1940.