MS Mrs Clare Roels/73
My dear C C
I hope your Rector has made a good beginning. Had you to hear the 39 articles? Mr Bowles read them out twice, and Mr Gordon Wickham of Crookham fainted away in the middle of the celibacy of the clergy, and Lord Frederick Kerr carried him out of the pulpit which as he afterward, after much difficulty, married Miss Kerr, was highly curious.1
I send you two more sets of leaves which haunted me, and now I want to get them out of the way
We had a splendid day for the Thanksgiving2 – with big coleuses in pots, with a fan palm behind them and the sun shone through them beautifully – Such full Churches
The baronne de Curtot’s memoirs are worth reading3 She begins with her friends who kept her letters. They were sentimental Germans, but there is a ring of truth about the letters, though her story is really too strange, and one can’t believe it, but when she went back to Paris in the Consulate her impressions of the court, Josephine &c are delightful. When first she met Murat, she wrote that he was exactly like a Circus rider
your very affectionate
C M Yonge