Marguerite writes of starting at the Quaker Friends School that she is attending in Baltimore while living with her Uncle Owen and Aunt Eleanor.  Meanwhile, life is much more tense across the ocean.  The London blitz that began in September 1940 intensifies and other cities are bombed including Coventry, and Liverpool where Maude lives.  She writes to Marguerite of the night she was caught out in the August 28 bombing.

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.