MS Mrs Clare Roels1
My dear Christabel
Here is another Gosling for us, and I should think a good one. She is a granddaughter of Dr Arnold her father being Mr T Arnold, and Frances Peard knows her well, which is almost equivalent to an introduction to a [sic turn of page] I send you her letter that you may see the nature of the bird and also consider of the Guernsey goose.2 I think we had better have her for we do want some clever fresh blood among us we lost so much when Mary Morshead went, and I don’t think much of either of her two cousins3, except Annie Baker’s beautiful drawing. So I think we had better accept her Theodora – You had better make out a scheme for the circuit of answers and Barnacles marking to each Gosling the day of the month it ought to come so that if her prede successor gets alarmed she may know to whom to write The most troublesome ones about directions are Shamrock and Heather because they change places so. Shamrock is a real good one though when she does answer I am telling Miss Arnold and also Frog to apply for Barnacles to you
yours affectionately
C M Yonge