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My dear Maggie,
Your book marker [is] a great beauty, and I thank you very much for it, particularly admiring the beautiful little shy bee. Mamma thanks Alice for her [note] and good news of you all. I hope we shall see you before long I am much better, and feel quite proud that I am sitting up to my work this morning while Miss Wilford is lying on her back. It is ten weeks since her strain, and it still gives her pain, so that she cannot walk many steps nor sit up a few minutes, and when I fetched her on Friday Mrs Bacon took away her bonnet that she might not go to church on Sunday. Miss Roberts looked very weak and ill while she was here, and Mr Wither might well say my friends are all screws. Is it not a good thing that Harry Young is taken into Mr Latham Wickham’s school on his lower terms instead of the poor little Humbert[.]1 Hursley disagrees so much with Mr Dundas that Miss Mackenzie went off to Bournemouth after a week, and says Bournemouth air is not like Hursley rain, so I suppose it is something like that at Brighstone2 Mrs and Miss Dyson were obliged to put off their visit to us, but we hope now to have them the first week in September. I think one of the Simeons will come to us the week after next.3
your affectionate godmother
C M Yonge