MS Mrs Clare Roels/100. Partly printed by Coleridge, Life, 344-51
My dear CC
Tory is banished, Juliette fell in love with him, so he is gone to Witham Chase, a very good home for him, and Vic is left lamenting – The mother mews all over the place but as she did before Tory went, I think it is from native accidie, not maternal grief-2 Aimée brought Miss Price to tea and sent Juliette, a little friend and a sort of semi governess to picnic on the top of the hill. It was very pleasant –
Fancy the German hatred to the English so that an acquaintance would not bow to Anna in the theatre! Aimée tried to explain the rights of the Boer war to a gentleman German but he would not listen for a moment. Of course they were very happy at Ammergau. They staid for the 2d performance on Whit Tuesday for the peasants Of course we could talk only chiefly of the terrible China – I suppose there are many more victims besides those given in the list of the Legation, and we do not know how many of the other nations.
I suppose Tientsin3 is safe for the present, but Mrs Bishop tells of such splendid hospitals at Hanchow and Mukden One English doctor has been there 18 years. Miss Finlaison came home Friday night, very much done up. It was influenza bringing on paralysis and apoplexy, and the niece Dora was very ill with that endless influenza, and Amy only just keeping about.4 What they are all to live upon I cannot think. Mrs Barton continues to write and justify Irene for a childish freak
Mary Morshead and Sister Sarah come for a fortnight on the 27th. I wonder if Mr Jacob belongs to the Bishop of Newcastle There were some cousins, who I think lived in Guernsey A wife without children may be just the thing, but what a bouleversement5
your affectionate
C M Yonge