Letter from Lord Dunsany, Meath, Ireland, to Frank Harris, 1912 November 3 : manuscript in the hand of Beatrice Dunsany, signed by the sender.

Recounting his childhood reading habits and subsequent education and their influence on his literary imagination, emphasizing the impact the Bible and the study of Greek had on him as a student at Cheam school; relating how the housemaid failed to wake him on the morning of the Greek exam at Eton, and he therefore took a lower place than he should have, and "when I left to go to crammers, where my education ceased, my knowledge of the classics was most incomplete. But incomplete in a strange way, for they had implanted in me at Cheam and Eton a love of the classical world of which I knew almost nothing."; explaining that his imagination led him from there to the invention of his own gods and fantastical kingdoms, with his knowledge of the Bible and Greek serving him as an inherent source of inspiration, and concluding, "An effect that the classics have had on me is this: Someone will say or I read somewhere - 'as so-and-so said before the walls of such-and-such', and it will convey to me with my incomplete knowledge of classics nothing but wonder, and something of this wonder I give back to my readers".