MS Bodleian Library, Oxford: Autogr. d. 22 ff65-671
My dear Mrs Lennard
I suppose your friends are only prepared to make remuneration by entertaining the English folks in return Otherwise I might be able to tell you of someone but everybody is so poor in these days that I am afraid it could hardly be done gratis.
I sent off a magazine by yesterday’s post Luckily there was one over as we had had one too many of an extra number and it gives a tolerable notion of the Christmas work. The little bits about the Litany are for helps in the catechising.
Lincolns is turned into a villa and let. I suppose you hear of Mr Jones Bateman’s death, a great loss to the parish, and old Mr Chamberlayne died this spring at 91. His son has not yet come to reside at Cranbury, where much has to be done to get the place into order.
I am afraid I do not know much about the House of Hohenstaufen before Frederick the Great.
Lord Blachford’s letters are as delightful as he was himself, I knew him well and his most beautiful home in Devonshire. You should read Lord Selborne’s life and letters which are most striking[.] I think his old father’s letters are some of the wisest things I ever read
Yours very sincerely
C M Yonge