Copy outletter book British Library Add MSS.55386 (2) P. 895
Dear Miss Yonge,
Very deeply do I feel your [illegible] and sympathy.1 The events of the past month are scarcely realizable to me, and on the whole the best healer, or at least anodyne is one’s daily work. I am very thankful as well that all the children – now all mine , are well, and my wife is settling everything wonderfully well, but needing rest, which she is having at her old house in Cambridge.
I shall be very glad to have the Cameos – to go on with, and you shall have proofs steadily and as fast as I can persuade the printer to go.
Miss Wilford has sent me her story. I have glanced carefully over it. I think it certainly has grace, but it is rather stately and stiff like brocade, it lacks the grace of life, and freedom of movement which will [illegible] a child. Even when you have [illegible] in chains, you hear them clank. Even the [illegible] of the boy being locked up and escaping from that stern old monk is hampered as though with a [next nine lines indecipherable.]2
Yours very faithfully