MS Charlotte Mitchell
My dear Edith
I should not think Miss Adams could have any objection to your girl. 2 She has one now whose father is Miss Sturges Bourne’s bailiff, and her mother a ladys maid, the girl is refined and more naturally ladylike looking than any of the others, but the sound is not much superior to yours. I am going from home on Monday for a month but it can all be settled with Miss Adams, and I know she has room. I will prepare her before I go. French comes naturally with her and is not an extra.3
I was thinking of trying to drive over to see you when Miss Seymour told me you were at Malvern.4 I suppose there is no chance of your being back in July, when Margaret Roberts has promised me a visit, and I would try to bring her if she is pretty well. A long drive always seems to me the most perfect way of enjoying a friend, one can talk without the sense of idleness, and with just distraction enough to offer variety if one wants it Indeed I wish, as lookers on and sympathizers can not fail to wish that this serving by standing and waiting were not so very long and weary.5 I still very much hope that force of time will bring more power, as it certainly does with many. Emily Awdry who is the only one of the Moberlys I have seen, says her father has felt this like the closing of cares and anxieties for his children, the thing he had cared to live for was the seeing Selwyn launched.6
If there be anything to write to me about this negotiation you had better direct here, as I shall be changing about a good deal
your affectionate
C M Yonge