MS Charlotte Mitchell.
My dear Miss Keary
Many thanks for this delightful bit of the story1 of which I am very fond. I suppose you know best but I almost wish Teddy could have been lost before he was found, and that the snowy morning could come before that delightful expedition of Boxe’s, and the still more delightful result.
What do you think, I am ashamed to say I have not seen Mrs Johns or Katie for ages. My poor house mate ‘or rather wife, Gertrude Walter, has been so ill this winter that I have done nothing extra, and they are not easy to get at. I heard from Christabel Coleridge however that she had seen her, and thought her looking ill and out of spirits. The drawing must be a terrible deprivation.
What a sad January it has been. We have been saddened here, (besides the great and more public losses) by the death of Sir Thomas Fairbairn’s bright joyous girl of 16. One week’s illness from neglected damp feet!
yours very sincerely
C M Yonge