MS Mrs Clare Roels/110
My dear C C
The Kings of Scotland were Earls of Huntingdon from the time of St David, and sat in parliament as English peers down to John Baliol.
Newspaper history has been a good deal at fault. Miss Finlaison saw that Henry VII married a daughter of Edward III which might have been only a misprint, but that it went on to say that Lionel had no children and that the York claim came from Edmund, the 5th son.
The Jacobites struck up a protest for this Mary in Bavaria1, and the Board of Works was so foolish as to punish them by forbidding the wreath to Charles I on the 30th- as if it was his fault. Mary Morshead satisfied herself with a whispered protest, but made a lout take off his hat at the Proclamation- What a grand opening of Parliament! Mrs Burrows of Godalming is our Diocesan President the only one who did not refuse! She is a good spirited useful person. I could not go, having caught a fresh small cold. Mrs Chute is not well, and could only send a written address of parting.
Miss Finlaison has caught two pupils, an Irish widowers children, a delicate boy of 9 and a girl of three named Yvonne, also a nurse. I hope it will do, and the Scotch girl comes back on Monday having been snowed up, but poor Miss F has been doing without servants and having a woman who turned out half crazy and wholly untruthful and incapable and she is really nearly starved and quite weak, so she is here to be heartened up before the term begins- Margaret Roberts has translated a French story into Italian La Marchesa, and sent it to Miss Watkins, her friend at Chandlers Ford It is very easy Italian.
The Churchwoman has a nasty flippant leading article on the Bishops’ letter. I hope every body will scold. We really ought to keep it in order
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C M Yonge