From a letter to the children.

The other day Lt. Colbaine Conflict—a very dirty raggedy lop-eared Irish terrier—had this nice little pair of pants. I took them away from him and washed them out. Now I can’t find whose pants they are and I’m sending them along to you….

The pants are pretty hard to button and so they must be English.

This, of course, leads to a researcher’s quandary—was this Irish terrier Lt. Colbaine Conflict, or Lt. Col. Baine Conflict? I’m assuming it’s the former, but given my grandfather’s loose attitude toward capitalization, I feel obligated to point out that it very well could be the latter.