MS Mrs Clare Roels
My dear Christabel
There is a nice little life of the Black Prince by Louise Creighton in Rivington’s series of Biographies. Also G P R James wrote a nice long romantic life of him which might be in old libraries, and Canon Warburton has a life of Edward III in Longman’s Epochs of history.1 I can’t understand about the grown man schools, but Mr Green is pretty sure to be right.2 I cannot find however any account of regular education beyond that at the Universities, and boys went there so young that I think there could hardly have been much teaching elsewhere, but in the Convents.
I suspect that the Grammar schools may have been in cities for the burgher glass who would need it, and that the gentlemen got their teaching as pages from the chaplains and the ladies, and if they were studious, went to a University, as the St Bernard of the days did to Paris. I think Walter might have been at Oxford, for young gentlemen certainly did go there, but I should like further enlightenment about Grammar schools, before it went in.
I have one delicious Irish story come in, also a modern life one by the old Aggesden Vicarage writer, and I have just done one myself modern so I am glad yours is historical. There is an Algerine and a West Indian more doubtful3
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C M Yonge