Aunt Nellie was still living in Ladbroke Grove, and Ruth Pitter remembered them going there for dinner one evening. ‘She was living with some old Anarchist, I think … She gave us some fearsome dish such as one would have in Paris if one was a native Parisian and dreadfully hard up.’20 Nellie had been for some years an enthusiastic Esperantist and the ‘old anarchist’ was probably Eugène Adam, leader of Sennacica Associo Tutmonda (S.A.T. – the World Association of Non-Nationalists), an Esperantist association based in Paris, of whom she was an admirer.
