"The change the dear place has undergone in the way of the gardens from the time of your childhood days does not somehow seem to alter it at all in the main and it is here that the memories of those days are so closely entwined. It seems impossible to believe that so many years have passed since all excitement and interest of each day centered round the building of your house down in the woods with you and Eric devising ways and means for its erection." Elsie Reford to Bruce Reford, June 15 th 1947