MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, CO171: Box 291
My dear Mrs Hooper
I do not think Miss Gilbert’s Instution [sic] quite calculates on such work as this good lady proposes – it does not seem as if it would take much teaching to tear up paper!, however here is her letter and here are her stamps at your disposal, I think Maggie would have wider ideas! I hope your little people are quite well again. I must tell you a story rather in their line. A little girl had been taking some medicine, and was going to bed. “Nurse, shall you say your prayers tonight?”
“Yes my dear-”
“Then please say for me, that it is Lady —’s little girl, and she has such a bad taste in her mouth that she cannot say her prayers”
Yours very truly
C.M. Yonge