MS Mrs Clare Roels/109

My dear C C
I had not read the Notes on Modern Thought and I don’t know what Prof Collins is, though looking at them in a hurry on your letter, I don’t like the looks of them. But would it be well for you and me, and perhaps Lady Frederick Bruce to remonstrate on the danger. I think GIB minds us, and I feel rather pledged to the ‘gates’ for Reason’s Why, which I have written on to 9 or 10 chapters and I think is wanted – if anyone reads the Churchwoman, I don’t so much mind Kg Charles his I think /the paper\ him exaggerated, and I never should belong to the White Rose in spite of Mary Morshead, though I do wish for the Memorial.¹ It is funny to remember what a radical GIB was when she wrote ZigZag! I believe it was Hawarden. But she is under Mr Villiers now, and has a charming class of his school children. Are you sure Mrs Halliday is ill, we have heard nothing of it, and I expect it is the Russian scandal of Mrs George Yonge at Bishopstoke (whence by the by the Hallidays are departed into Somersetshire). She, poor thing, Mrs George Yonge is, I fear dying of complaint of the heart, and Lottie is there doing what she can for poor broken hearted George (her uncle)² The direction is Stoke Lodge, Bishopstoke, Hants. She carried off books to write your article if she has time, which I doubt. I think it will end in her living there. We have had our Religious Inspection and my boys were perfectly senseless! Tomorrow is the girls, and we hope for better things, I believe boys brains between 10 and 12 turn to cricket &c.

It rained furiously all Saturday here, I am glad it did not in London. And the Navy came out beautifully – but it is only alas!

Did you hear of the little Dublin tramp whom a gentleman watched, laying down his only penny for a bunch of violets which he scattered over her name³

your affte
C M Yonge