MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum 121-2.
My dear Alice,
I hope George is feeling the freshness of these nice cool days1, and Mrs. Moberly is contented and happy without the babies, who by Mary and Edith’s account must be very funny, especially Edward. What a pleasure it will be to see George at Winchester again, and to hear of all your doings, by which I hope ‘The Daisy Chain’ will profit, as it has a Commemoration in it. ‘Cleve Hall’ I like very much, I think the best of Miss Sewell’s stories. . . .We had a nice visit from Dora, Kitty, Annie, and Johnnie last week, and we all joined Mr. Bigg-Wither and the Miss Yards2 and walked to Brambridge Gardens; there was a very hot sun and a thunderstorm – not quite enough to satisfy you, but enough to flatter the children with the hope of being rained up at Otterbourne, in which case I think Miss Cowing would have been in a tolerable state of alarm. I should have liked to have heard that Sea-King lecture.