Professor Valenduris,

I can't imagine what you mean by "Potions", but if you mean to suggest the boy is cooking broths and soups then that is something practical at least.

Anyway, yes you can have him. I need his bed for Willy Porter anyway, he broke a rib while out with the wheelbarrow. So if Clue came here he'd be sleeping on the kitchen hearth (which would probably be good for him anyway).

Don't write to me again if you don't mind, I'd rather you just kept him. Be warned, he's a strange one. But your problem now.

Mrs Spragg,
Mrs Spragg's Home for Needfuls

PS. Sorry about the soil, but I was gardening and I wrote this on a tree stump, you know how it is.