MS Mrs Caroline Fairclough/25
My dear Arthur
I think the redingote is wrong- but the geens and gaskins were worth having. Why should I not mean the Aryan classifications to be based on Grimm.1 I meant it for a pleasing exercise but I fancy only our spiders of a superior order will attack such a web!
Adams is my authority for durst being an old verb like burst, and is he not generally trustworthy? Certainly I never heard the infinitive. Do I know about your translation of Aristophanes? Did I miss it, for I am free to confess that my sub editor looks at the Spiders’ webs and reports on them
What does the Athenaeum say to this, which I received this morning?2 ‘The Queen’ declared that the only war in this reign I had mentioned was the Abyssinian, a flagrant instance of never looking at the book.3
Did you see the Aurora last night? I never saw a better.
yours very sincerely
C M Yonge