MS Mrs Clare Roels1
My dear Christabel
Thank you and Edith for taking the Bandits’ Bride2, I hope your collections will prosper. We have £163, and want £700 if we build a masters house, £400 if we content ourselves with a school
Have you written to Miss Arnold, or shall I accepting Miss Clarke I find Grace Latham has not time, so perhaps we had better accept Miss Budd and Miss Llewellyn. Scotland has sunk away from us, so I suppose Wales is coming instead The other perhaps we had better reject on the grounds of not being a round dozen. I think twelve is the right number.
Since September December is begun I shall send you Mother Goose’s own questions, to save one writing out of them.3
‘Give a history of the art of letter-writing with an account of the most noted letters and correspondents ancient and modern.
What are the synonyms of Beauty – give their derivation, history and shades of meaning
your affectionate
Mother Goose
This ought to have gone yesterday