The Foundling Hospital. Ann Usborne's postcard is sold in their shop, so we reprinted it. But judging by Persephone Post readers' response to her other Bloomsbury paintings, we should rapidly reprint the two that are now out of stock (Rugby Street and Doughty Street, Monday and Wednesday's Posts).

This is round the corner from the shop: the house at 58 Doughty Street where Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby shared a flat from 1921-2.

This is Ann's painting of Russell Square, our nearest tube (although not on the Northern Line - us North Londoners have to walk to Euston). There used to be a wonderful newspaper stall but this closed to be replaced by - suitcases. A great pity. Now there is just the free Evening Standard.

The Post is rather late today (we try and do it first thing in the morning, as regular viewers will know) because Leipzig was our three-day weekend destination. We went bearing presents from Ben Pentreath in Rugby Street, which is just out of sight on the left in this postcard. The set of six, by Ann Usborne, are sold in our shop; a couple are, however, close to running out.

The Felixstowe to Ipswich Coach, by Russell Sidney Reeve 1895-1970, is dated 1940-1950 (it's at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich). But let's assume the painting is early '40s, in which case the knitting is the final kind of war work on the Post this week. This is a detail; it was on a Biannually a couple of years ago. The complete painting can be seen here.

Convalescent Nurses making Camouflage Nets by Evelyn Dunbar, reproduced on page 106 of Gill Clarke's Evelyn Dunbar: War and Country, where she writes that this was part of a series of nursing paintings. 'The nurses, whose strength was doubtless exhausted by continuous strenuous service, the Blitz not long having ended, were recuperating in one of the many convalescent homes administered by the Joint Organisation of the Red Cross and the Order of St John. However, they too were expected to work, and in this case that meant threading coloured strips of fabric into camouflage nets.'

Laura Knight A Balloon Site Coventry 1943: women from the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Also at the Imperial War Musuem.

Land Girls 1941 by Evelyn Dunbar. Private Collection.

There has been so much in the press about the Blitz ( and cf. the latest Fortnightly Letter) that we think this week's Post should be about war workers. This painting of Sir Ernest Gowers, AJ Child and KAL Parker in the London Regional Civil Defence Control Room was painted by Meredith Frampton in 1943 and is in the Imperial War Museum.

'September' by SR Badmin from Country Bouquet by Phyllis Nicholson 1947

We have a typewriter like this in the shop window at the moment and yesterday someone came in and asked if we knew where to buy ribbons! It seemed rather incongruous to say why don't you look on the internet, surely if you want a typewriter ribbon you don't do computers? Unless they have become a style accessory, like All Saints' sewing machines.

A detail from the Farewell Leicester Square fabric. We sell it in the shop for £45 a metre (for a 137cm width). Somewhat to our dismay we have seen that Borderline are now supplying John Lewis with the material and they too have made cushions. Of course it's flattering in a way – maybe the John Lewis buyer came to Lamb's Conduit Street and thought, 'ah ha, we must have these'. (Our price was £35, further proof that everything we sell is incredibly good value!)

We haven't had any bentwood furniture on the Persephone Post for, well, months. How could any artist's studio be complete without a Thonet rocking chair? This of course is Picasso's.

Autumn oddments this week ie. things we love, for no particular reason. Here is a Delft tile, originals can still be bought in Holland and online, but for a price.

And the fourth and last of these wonderful panels.

And the third panel, 'Convalescent Blues'.

This is yesterday's panel more visibly.

Here is a photograph of someone looking at the one of the four panels in the entrance hall of the (now demolished) Middlesex Hospital.

Frederick CayLey Robinson's four panels Acts of Mercy 1916-20 were formerly in the Middlesex Hospital, then moved to the Wellcome, and for the next six weeks can be seen at the National Gallery.

And one of the real pleasures of coming back to the office is the poster collection we have accumulated over the years, which visitors to the shop seem to enjoy as much as the books. The pride of our collection is this 1946 Southern Railway poster. It's by Walter E Spradbery.

Jane de Glehn's Woodland Slope Wiltshire © Messum's, encapsulates what a holiday should be – and was most days. Now it's back to the Northern Line. But London is looking so beautiful in this late summer weather (and on the remoter parts of the Heath you might as well be in Wiltshire) that nobody minds too much.

And this is both holiday-ish and end-of-summer-ish: Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit c. 1620-5 by Sir Nathaniel Bacon © Tate.