MS Hampshire Record Office: Heathcote Family Scrapbooks: 63M84/234/65
My dear Ellie
I am delighted to hear of the Medallion!1
Have you seen Sir Herbert Maxwell’s book of the months-? He disbelieved the rod and someone ought to write to him. He watched Mullins – and fancied he had discovered the places before. But Lady Crawley, the mother of Mrs William Gibbs, who had the power only in that generation of the family laughed at it as imagination, and I believe Mrs Gibbs inherited it, but never spoke of it. Mrs Monroe had Mullins to find water at Colden Common and he did. All the servants tried under his tuition but only one maid succeeded.
I am doing our Birds with anecdotes if possible to add to the book.
Helen has a copy of [illegible] marked by her father and can complete the set. There really is much to say of them.
Your affectionate
C M Yonge