MS Charlotte Mitchell
My dear Jay
Thank you very much for the dear little Tom tit.1 They are great friends of ours, we keep fat for them at the window all the winter and have 4 sorts. Have you ever been to that delicious Natural History Museum at South Kensington, and seen the birds nests ? There is a tom tits’ nest in a post box, where the creature sat through all the letters! I am glad Alice is getting on so well. When there is a real reason for such an attack, there is every hope that it is not constitutional. Julian goes on being really rather better, but does not get up.2 They have Alethea and her two babies with them just now.3
I really never meant Magotte to live in the Keep, though she went up there on occasion, and looked down at the banquet, and I think the chapel where they were the night Thomas was in danger was the one in the Keep.4 I have made Pencester come in from the north and have a sally on the French, but I don’t realize that side of the castle, as I only saw it when we went to Walmer from the outside. It is a pity that all the romance of Hubert’s life, and the fetters and blacksmith came when he had most likely nothing to do with Dover.
your most affectionate
C M Yonge