MS Mrs Clare Roels/105
My dear C C
So you are to have a new Bishop, I am glad Lord Salisbury is there to have the choosing of him.1 Our elections have gone off quietly, and our neighbour of Cranbury is at the head of the poll at Southampton. Winchester is not settled yet, but for the county no one opposes old Mr Beach, who I believe is the father of the House The Mallocks are a loss at Torquay.2 Mrs Woollcombe comes on the 23d to see Frances before she goes to Spain and she will stay a week, after which I shall be very glad to see you. Lottie Yonge is coming some time in November when she has finished teaching the Scotchwomen to knit. I should think the darkening days were unfavorable- I am afraid there will be another brood of kittens for your amusement A D I’s uncle, I believe it is, has behaved like a brick and cleared him but I have got my £11, and Macmillan has my books. I have written to ask him if he will have Forget me nots. I don’t think Wells Gardiner has any taste Sylvia’s Romance and Left to themselves are both very poor things- The best thing I have read for some time is Frankfort Moore’s The Conscience of Coralie, though it has a perfectly hideous outside, in the most vulgar taste but it must be the fault of Pearson’s binder. The American girl cannot understand Englishmen’s reserve and chaff and thinks the only man in earnest is a Socialist full of high faluting and has to find out her mistake I have not got any SPCK books yet, but we are all rather fallen from our high estate I went to a High School meeting the other day, 166 girls, besides outsiders- Mary Du Boulay gives up and goes to Egypt I am not sure if it is only temporary- There is a foolish little rash going about the parish to bring down our averages which hitherto have been excellent. Francie Collins has had it but is pretty well again Conservatism succeeds, but how will the Church come out.
your affectionate
C M Yonge