The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Part 1: 15 Jan, 1946 Summary & Analysis

Juliet replies to Dawsey and explains that she's thrilled his letter reached her, as she no longer lives at the address written in the cover of the Charles Lamb book. She wonders how the book ended up in Guernsey. Juliet says that she loves going to bookshops so upon receipt of Dawsey's letter, she went to her favorite bookshop and asked the proprietor to send Dawsey a copy of More Essays of Elia and put him on the hunt for a biography.

Juliet says that she's enclosed a copy of Charles Lamb's Selected Letters as a gift, which she believes is a better way to learn about Lamb than through a biography. She includes her favorite passage and explains that she only began reading Lamb's work after learning that Lamb, while visiting a friend in prison, helped his friend paint a mural in his cell, offered money to the friend's family, and taught his friend's daughter to say the Lord's Prayer backward. Juliet says that this is her favorite part about reading: tidbits like these lead a person into book after book with no end in sight. She says she's included a postcard of Charles Lamb's portrait.

In closing, Juliet asks Dawsey if he'd answer three questions for her about the secret pig roast, how the Society began, and what a potato peel pie is and what it's doing in the Society's name. She gives Dawsey her current address and laments that her old flat was bombed in 1945.