MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Romanes, Appreciation 75
Mamma told you of the wonderful début of Violet.1 I only wonder whether she will thrive as well when the critics have set their claws on her; the home critics are very amusing in their variety and ‘characteristicalness’ (there’s a word!).
My Colonel correspondent complains of the babies2 . . . .Sir W. Heathcote says the will would not stand3; Judge Coleridge falls foul of the geography of the Lakes; and so on.4
Most people say they think others will like it as well as Guy, though they don’t themselves, and some few prefer it. It does want papa very much; but, then, he did set it going, and there is mamma to gloat over it.