Letter to Robin on red-bordered polka-dot stationery, scribbled in pencil

A sheet of decorative children’s stationery — cream paper with a red scalloped border and red polka dots — mounted on the album page. The salutation ‘Dear Robin’ is written in red crayon at the top; the remainder of the letter is in graphite pencil in a very young child’s hand, mostly consisting of scribbled loops that imitate adult cursive but contain no legible words. A few isolated letterforms are visible at the bottom: what appears to be ‘PP’, then ‘DA’ (possibly a single combined glyph), then ‘8’ or a similar curl. The pencil body is genuinely pre-literate scribble with no recoverable words. Most likely a letter written by Robin himself — the compiler’s grandson, Robin Corbell (son of Emma Dee Walker Corbell), per cross-page identification from book-002/p198 — the matching enclosure for one of the Portsmouth envelopes addressed to him on the facing page.

The body of this letter is pre-literate scribble — loops and waves drawn by a very young hand mimicking adult handwriting. The closing characters “PP D A 8” may be an attempt at the writer’s own initials, a child’s approximation of “Papa” / “Daddy”, or simply more imitation-script. Most likely written by Robin Corbell himself (Dee Corbell’s son, the compiler’s grandson) and saved as a keepsake.