This subseries comprises a mini-archive compiled in part by Laura Hope following the death of her beloved younger daughter Esme in February 1905. Included are letters from Esmé to Laura and Adrian, as well as letters about Esmé and letters of condolence to Laura and Jacqueline after Esmé’s death. There are 19 letters. 11 picture cards, 3 photos and 11 artistic items, including juvenile drawings and watercolors, some evidently by Esmé, others possibly executed by Laura and colored in by Esmé. In addition, there are items related to Esmé’s death, such as pressed flowers and fragments of the wreaths that lay about Esmé during her wake, as well as multiple copies of the book The Horizon by Catherine Marsh (1911). The book tells the story of Esmé’s life and death. Finally, there are 3 “Spirit Letters,” presumably channeled through Laura, in the style of automatic writing. Some take the form of conversations with the departed Esmé, and some of these are addressed to the angel Raphael. An alphabetized concertina file includes letters of condolence to Laura after Esmé’s death. There are a number of photos of Esmé as a baby and as a child, many of them framed.