Helena Forrest taught music one day a week at Beacon Hill School for about two years. The letter contains a few anecdotes about Kate. The only instruction that BR gave her was: "If you have any trouble with discipline be sure you get the right culprit and throw him, or her out by the scruff of his (or her) neck."

She mentions Dora only indirectly: "I always felt that the school would have been a much happier place had he had more say in the running of it. He had a delightful way with children." Some child or other was always crying.