Dear Snodgrass
I hasten to answer your letter and wish you joy on your return to this our native land.
We too have been in foreign climes & have come back with our own bellies well lined with good Dutch food & liberal doses of Schnapps.
Yours ever
J Entwistle
Judy Taylor, in her edition of Ardizzone's Sketches for Friends, London: John Murray, 2000, notes that 'in 1959, for his own amusement, Edward Ardizzone began a series of illustrated letters to Mr Snodgrass, an imaginary (and extremely inefficient) publicity manager for a firm of corset manufacturers, Comfi-Corsets.'