MS Mrs Clare Roels/76

My dear C C
If I were to be dissected while I am alive, I think you would do it tenderly, but indeed I have always shrunk from seeing the lives of living people and my whole old fashioned nature revolts at the idea partly personally, and partly because I know how those who are gone would feel about it, so indeed I do not think it is possible to my feelings and I hope you will not be vexed.

We are overwhelmed with applications for the Infant school at Allbrook, having advertised in the School mistress. One offers herself from Stirling! She would be odd here I think. We have Mrs Sumner’s presentation next week, all the mothers in the diocese to drink tea at Wolvesey, and the week after our bazaar for the schools- after which from the 3d to the 6th, I go down to the Heathcotes at Beechwood and on the 10th Annie Moberly comes to me for ten days, and I shall get a dip in Oxford news. Mr Cosmo Lang made a splendid speech at the Higher Religious Education meeting.

A D I’s promises dont seem to come to anything only he says his company won’t let him get at the money to pay his debts till all is paid in.

I wonder if it would do any good to send a lawyer to call on him or if it would be only sending good money after bad.

He has given no account for my own books, as well as /contributions to\ the M P. If you are not paid for all this past year, I wonder you do not strike but he keeps on pacifying you.

You never mentioned Alice.

your affectionate
C M Yonge