MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: Ms. Eng. lett. e.100 ff161-2
My dear Percy
The houses I should prefer for a boy are
the Revd J H DuBoulay’s
Southgate Hill or
the Revd J T Bramston’s
Culvers’ Close2
I have a weakness for a clergyman’s house, and besides, I think so highly of both the men and their wives – Mrs DuBoulay as I daresay you know was Alice Cornish sister to the Bishop of Madagascar. Both she and Mrs Bramston are very nice about the boys. Mrs Bramston’s father is Archdeacon Adey he /Mr B\ is the Dean’s son. I should certainly try to get George into one of their houses, though of course it must be a chance. Preference has really so little to do with it that I do not suppose it would be of any use for me to say anything. They had not, when I last heard, discovered anything in Mr Fearons house to account for the illness, but I think there must have been, as three boys were ill, the butler died, and the doctor who attended them like wise.3 I suppose it will be thoroughly investigated when Mr Fearon leaves it. I hope George may get in to College, and that we may be able to meet when you come with him at Election . I think you are quite right in deciding against Harrow
Yours affectionately
C M Yonge