MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS English Letters: e 86. 1
My dear Mr Moor
Your opinion so entirely coincides with ours that I almost had my pen in my hand to write to you to say that we had only ten girls and five boys at school yesterday, and that I could conceive no variety of weather that will make the way passable for you and your spectators between this and tomorrow evening, and so that I had sent out messages to say the Lantern was adjourned.2 I am a little afraid of fixing the 15th because it may be the servants’ evening at the Park to which they invite Mary Plumridge, and on the whole I think it will be wise to leave the day unfixed till we see our way a little more clearly, and have it in the week after that – I think I never saw such an impassable snow, hardly any vehicles manage to go by, and no one but the postman and Mr Wither contrive to stir
Yours sincerely
C M Yonge