20th August 1938

Marion started to learn the piano, her father is teaching her from "Smallwood's Tutor" book. In one month I taught her to play a little song called 'Robin' with both hands and by heart. For this achievement, I gave her a turquoise ring.
She continues to write stories and has a book full. Cat stories, she makes up to read to her little English friend, Sheila. We sent one of her fairy-tales to her school in Baltimore, who replied that she had a very good command of English. Her descriptions, they said, showed excellent imaginative ability. She is also passionately fond of her drawing, of which her school remarked that she had a very good of form. She has never had any lessons at all in drawing.