28 VIII 1912
Your grandmama Wootton has sent me a letter of yours, dated August 9th, 1912, in which you write "some months ago I wrote to Aunt Elizabeth. I have not heard from her yet. What is the trouble?"
If you directed the letter correctly, it certainly never was delivered at Tyddyn-ap-Ifan, Penmaenmawr, which was Miss Elizabeth Wright's home for about seventeen years, so I cannot understand why your letter did not arrive there, unless something happened to the mail in transit.
It is my painful duty to tell you that Miss Elizabeth Wright passed away from this world of sorrow, in April 1905, after a long and painful illness of heart and mouth. She often spoke during that time, of Mr. Joseph Wootton, and told me she thought he must have been dead, or he would not keep so long from writing to her; and that she had written to Mr. Alcock, Mr. Yeo, and several times to him at previous addresses he, himself, had sent, but unsuccessfully, as those to him were returned with "Gone Away," or "Not Known," or similar remarks.
Miss Wright appointed me as an executrix, and as she left a few books, diaries (his own & his brother's) and gave me her instructions, I advertised in "Tid-bits" and the "Overseas Daily Mail" for information of, or from, Mr. Joseph Wootton. I put in 3 advertisements but never received any reply to any.
If your father is well enough to reply to this letter, and will tell me when he last wrote to Miss E. Wright, and could send me a photo of himself, or of his wife and first child, I should be glad, as there are so many photographs to be returned of people I have never seen. I would also like to know why he was so long silent.
Yours truly,
(Miss) M.L. Yell