MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: MS Acland d.175.ff 178-9
My dear Miss Acland
I am sending Pompei (it does not look natural) to Christabel Coleridge at Cheyne, Torquay, and it will be more convenient for her to let you know about it, as I am not the sole dictator of Packet now, but one of a triumvirate – being really, I suppose, rather dropped behind the present world.1
I fear that any how the diagrams cannot be brought in, but that the publisher must decide, and they may think it long and minute
A ridiculous fabulous history of me declared that I never permitted a Roman Catholic to write in the packet, which was very untrue[.] I once had Kathleen O’Meara and dropped her, not for her opinions, but for making the cannon fire a salute when William the Conqueror started for England, which destroyed my confidence in her ‘Old Castles’.
I saw Mrs Cooke Trench last week. The party have not started yet as Beatrice feels bound to wait for young Mr Compton’s coming of age ball. Lady Heathcote was then very unwell but was much better when last I heard Helena was not well but not seriously, and I expect to meet her at some of the GFS affairs next week
Yours very sincerely
C M Yonge