How Did the Photos Come to the Attention of the Public?

In 19 18, frances sent a letter to a friend of hers in cape town, south africa. She wrote: Do you play with elsie and nora biddles? I am learning french geometry, cookery and algebra at school now. Notice how she just casually, ter of factly drops that one of the pictures is of me with some fairies up the back,. as if it's no big deal. The thing that really started the cottingley fairy sensation was something that elsie's mother, polly wright did. In the summer of 19 19, missus wright went to a theosophical lecture, and the subject happened to be about the