Note:

• Revised in 1971
• Originally published in The Eleanor Farjeon Book: A Tribute to Her Life and Work, 1881-1965 (Hamish Hamilton, 1966), LCCN 68-121706; perhaps simultaneously in its US ed., A Book for Eleanor Farjeon [same subtitle] (H. Z. Walck, 1966).
• US 1st ed. chapbook reviewed by Alice Low NY Times 1971-05-02 pBRA34 (negative), Virginia Haviland Chi. Tribune and Was. Post -05-09 (positive), Myra Gordon Bos. Globe -10-02 p15 (negative, except re illustrations). Haviland says "completely in tune with the four major volumes" but the others hear it out of tune, evidently because it is a short reminiscence.
• Not found 2017-04-05 in automated search of multiple UK newspapers 1971/72.

Synopsis: "[B]ook adventures were to have concluded (since Borrowers had become so hidden there were no human witnesses to record their future exploits). But here is more about their past ...". --Low "Homily, encouraged by her daughter Arrietty, tells of a crisis in her youth when [boy Borrower] Stainless was lost. The whole Borrower family has to venture upstairs with large scale people in efforts to find him." --Gordon