Dear Mum

I have got a job with Sissfill as a chemical sales cadet. The pay is reasonably good — it's about the same as what I was getting from Hort Research. The job looks interesting and will be good experience for me since
I will be doing a lot of computing and will be going on a few seminars. The office is at Anzac Avenue in central Auckland.

I went around to the Wagstaffs' place for tea on Tuesday. I don't think I'll go again. Janet is really hard and competitive. While I was there I felt as though she was always putting me down. Second letter...



Tessa sent us the above letter in January 1995, about 11 months before she was admitted to the psychiatric ward of a public hospital and diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.