MS Mrs Clare Roels 1
My dear Christabel
I have my doubts whether you are not in the right and Goosedom has had its day. I do not think that now I have no one to read and discuss the answers with I do my part with the same spirit and effectiveness, and there are not enough Goslings acquainted with each other to keep the thing up with animation. Gaggles used [to] do something, but there has been no opportunity of them.2
Frog does not mean to fail but is always doing it and as you say no one perseveres but Cricket and Double Daisy, the rest are no use at all but to lose the paper. So on the whole, I believe that when the answers to Cricket’s questions come in, I had better give the Coup de Grace, instead of hunting up anyone to ask a fresh set
The fact is that Goslings used to like the questions they did not know now they only answer those they do know I thought at the time that it was dangerous to print all those papers. 3
Certainly Goosedom has been a very great pleasure to its mother but it has been languishing so long that I think it will be better to end it, and if I go to Ottery we will there conduct a finale. On Thursday I go to Lady Seaton’s Beechwood Plympton for a week-
yours affectionately
C M Yonge