Letters from the switchboardGuests 18+
Letters from the switchboard, on the rooms and streets an evening passes through
Letters are where Delphine writes down, at greater length and with more care, what she would otherwise put into a single message. Each one begins with a question a guest has actually asked the switchboard: which way a companion should come through the door, where to spend the hour before a dinner, what lounge suit means on an invitation that arrived that morning. The answers are practical, particular to the West End and SW1, and written for somebody who is in London now or will be shortly.
The first ten cover the ground that most evenings here actually pass over. There are hotels, from the new house on Hanover Square to the panelled bar in the old hospital at Hyde Park Corner. There are dining rooms, among them the Mayfair rooms where a Dover sole still comes off the bone beside the table, and a Belgravia landmark whose floors are dark this autumn and which is described honestly for that reason. There are the practical matters, the three ways a companion arrives and the road from Heathrow to Notting Hill. And there are the afternoons: an hour among the lots on Berkeley Square, and a suit begun on Savile Row.
Nothing in them is paid for, and no hotel, restaurant or bar named in them has any arrangement with this house. Places are described as they are. The prices on other people's menus are left out, because they change, and where a room has closed or changed hands the letter says so rather than pretending otherwise. Where a letter touches on an evening with a companion, the only figures are those on the tariff, from £250 for an hour, and the fee is handed to her in person when she arrives.
Read them in any order. Each ends where an evening might begin, with the names in the Salon who suit it best, and each is revised whenever something it describes has changed. If your question is not answered here, send it to the switchboard; it may very well become the next letter.

Letters
10 guides in Letters










One message is enough
Send the district and the hour
Write where you are and when you would like her. A name and an arrival window come back, and the evening is arranged from there.
Guests are 18+ without exception. A fee is for time and companionship only, and the whole tariff is on the rates page.