Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
From Memoirs:at Langwell the evenings would end with the grand chorus of the Letter Game. A game played with squares of card, each with a letter on it: in the commonest form the letters having been put face downwards, were turned up in turn by the players, and the first to claim a word in the ensuing jumble, to it; it was allowed, by changing with additions a word already taken, to claim it from another player. This game word-making and word-taking was regularly played in country houses, at least until the end of the first World War-particularly on Sunday in many homes where cards were not then allowed.
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