MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection, C0171: Box 29
My dear Florence,
You wrote just in time for the pattern. I am going to send it tomorrow. There are five stitches between the outsides of each medallion and five rows of red beyond them at the top and bottom.
I am glad you have brought back your invalid safe and better and I wish you could speak better of your eldest sister. Is Mrs Cristall pretty well again. Yes, I was at Oxford.1 I think that E was meant for Miss Sewell, though as it happened the one who was there was the only one whose name does not begin with E. out of all the Aunts and nieces.2 I was sitting just by her too. I went up at 9 o’clock and was in time for everything except the first clauses of the Litany. I never knew anything so perfect or so consoling and brightening as was the entire day – the speeches were so admirable but the chants at the stone laying were the point above all. The verses sung were by Mr Bright of University whose poems you liked so much.
Your affectionate
C M Yonge