ABSTRACT
Friends in England remarked on the resourcefulness of the Frost children despite seeming deprivations and the normal problems of adjustment that accompany travels far from home. Undaunted by the often difficult physical circumstances of their stay in The Bungalow and Little Iddens, and nurtured by their parents in their role as teachers, Lesley and her sisters and brother continued to find writing projects that built on the early journals kept while in Derry. Writing Lesley from Steep sometime in late spring, Merfyn Thomas was anticipating his family's holiday at Oldfields, just across from Little Iddens. The Frosts returned to America in mid-February 1915, taking with them Edward Thomas's son, Merfyn. The subjects for the children's contributions to The Bouquet often suggest life on a New Hampshire farm playing school or playing house or just having outdoor adventures on the farm.
