MS Mrs Clare Roels
My dear Christabel
I think you had better guide the flight of the Barnacle I have nothing special to observe about it, except that it might be worth while to let Mary Morshead have it at once, as I do not know how soon she sails.1 I suppose it is the last at least for the present[.] Mrs Valentine is getting up another Christmas annual, especially for children, so I should think it might be worth while to write to her and then you could ask after Giftie.2 Mamma is very weak and only gets up to take a short drive in her donkey chair every day. I think Lady Coleridge must be better since Edith saw her[,] for Miss Dyson seems satisfied about her, and she is at Ottery now.
your affectionate
C M Yonge
You idle Gosling – you don’t give a hint where here is – so this must go to Hanwell.