Mary Gladstone requests a consoling letter upon her twentieth birthday and writes about attending a ball that lasts until 6 a.m. Victorians sure knew how to live! This humorous letter asks us to rethink today's stereotypes and along the way links Mary and Catherine Gladstone's stay at Blythe Hall with its later owner, playboy Ned Lathom who was also Noël Coward’s first patron.
Read MoreBlythe Hall, Lathom, Lancashire, UK. By Plucas58 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons]. Image changed to sepia tone with border.