This fonds contains 20 manuscript love letters written by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield to her lover Garnet Trowell, September-November 1908, and 1 letter from Mansfield’s close friend Ida Baker to Trowell. Mansfield’s letters are breathless and passionate, regretting their time apart and looking forward to a future together. These are the only Mansfield letters known to have survived from this period of her life.