MS Mrs Clare Roels
My dear Christabel
I do not think I have ever answered you about Cherry, but I have had my cousin Duke Yonge here, and then a fierce Saturday of harvest decorations which raged from morn till dewy eve and by means of bulrushes, berries wheat, and those arching grasses at whose gathering I think you assisted turned out well.1 I begin to think now that I did write, but I cant make sure, and so I go on to say that I shall welcome Cherry after Heriots choice and all the more if you can cut Ruth down.
Are you looking for a curate, for there is rather a good Irish friend of Miss Finlaisons a Mr Arthur Young going to leave Alresford for the odd reason that the old Rector does not like his doing so much in the schools.
your affectionate
C M Yonge