September 26, 1921. In a glade a few miles from home [Preston]. Beautiful old trees, touched with autumn tints, a stream gently flowing, and the whole bathed in autumn sunshine. The surface of this field is densely populated by fairies, brownies, elves and a species of grass creature, something between an elf and a brownie, but smaller, and apparently less evolved than either. The fairies are flitting through the air in short flights, taking very graceful poses as they fly. They express in the highest degree the qualities of light-heartedness, gaiety and joie de vivre. A number of them are flying about singly. They flit from place to place, pausing a moment between each flight. They seem to be bearing something which they give to the grass or the flowers at each stopping place, at least they put out their hand and touch the place where they come to rest, as if applying some substance, then they move swiftly away again. They become more clearly visible as they alight as and they move away; one loses them after they have landed. They are female, dressed in a white, or very pale pink, clinging, sheeny material of exceedingly fine texture. It is drawn in at the waist and shines with many colours like mother-of-pearl. The limbs are uncovered, the wings are oval, small and elongated. Geoffrey Hodson, Fairies at Work and at Play,  (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1930), 78-79