MS Charlotte Mitchell¹

My dear Edith,
You will think there is no end to me but I saw Mr Moore yesterday and he says that his magic lantern came from Carpenter & Newman 24 Regent Street, and that they are much better than Negretti having devoted their minds to magic lanterns His lamp is an Argand These were all your questions I could recollect, but if you have any more, he will gladly and clearheadedly answer them. Mamma has just seen the new nursery maid trotting after the donkey carriage and ‘Mithter Dandatti’ and the three children & thought she looked very nice.² On Saturday week Miss Mackenzie will betake herself to the Kings Head at Hursley. The American lady who wrote the Scilly isles wants to do a series of English cathedrals – it is like the Scotch lady flying at Archbishops.

Poor dear Field House we took leave of it and its roses and cows last night, and felt as if a very sunny page in our life was turned down³

yours affectionately
C M Yonge