MS Winchester City Council, Historic Resources Centre, LH3802
My dear Bella
Gertrude begs me to write and enquire how Mr Walpole is. 1 I am afraid it takes a long time to recover from anything so exhausting as nose bleeding. Our Bishop however seems quite to have done so – he has got happily through this time of hard work at the Diocesan Conference We had a very interesting meeting afterwards at the Deanery about Women’s Work in the Diocese – especially what the Deaconesses at Portsea have to do and the strange things they meet with. Fancy a woman doubting about having her child baptised for fear it should become an Archangel and have to run about doing the messages for all the others. Lady Heathcote was here today looking very well, at a meeting of this Habitation? of the Primrose League. Gertrude is tolerable today, having visits from Miss Coulthard who is at the other house. I wonder who the Lady Valeria’s author is. A Moberly seems as if one should know, but then people do so assume names.2 It is a pretty book but for one thing
your affectionate
C M Yonge