Dear Miss Troyte,

Many thanks for your kind order and pleasant letter. I hope the Heartsease leaves may help off some of the still remaining £120 which must be raised before the bells can be ordered. Lady Lucy Herbert has worked hard for them for seven years, literally worked, for she and her sister have drawn and sold their drawings for them. I believe the delight they will feel will be very great, and Mrs Selwyn ... continue reading

My dear Irene,

Many thanks for this order. You had better send the stamps to me, and they will go into the great Bell hoard.

Glow Worm’s Lorenzo is by far the most entertaining of the lot that came yesterday, but unluckily she made one sad mistake, for Catherine was the daughter of Alessandro, some generations further on, Lorenzo’s grandson, I think, and the monument was a grandson’s too commonly called Lorenzino. I am very sorry for ... continue reading

My dear Fanny,

Your letter came to me safely yesterday, and very glad I am of the prospect it holds out. I wrote to Mr Raikes at once letting him [know] that it was just what I should like, but that he had better send it to me when I get home which I do not think will be till the end of October. I find it so very difficult to get a MS read away ... continue reading

My dear Mr Coleridge I am very much obliged to you for so kindly undertaking the enquiry at Goslings which must be the preliminary to any undertaking in the cause of the Bells. I would not however have given you the trouble of reading my thanks had I not been charged with a message to you from Mrs Keble She obtained a promise from Mrs Selwyn when in England that little John might ... continue reading

Madam, I am not aware whether Mr Mozley acknowledged the receipt of your friend's kind subscription towards the peal of bells at Auckland, New Zealand, and I therefore gladly express my thanks for the kindness The letter printed in the Monthly Packet was from Mrs Selwyn herself, and it is the very earnest wish of her friends in England to be able to send out to her that of which she has so well expressed ... continue reading

My dear Madam That poem on the Sabbath Bells was given me by Lady Lucy Herbert, Lord Powis’s sister, at the time when she was collecting subscriptions for bells for Auckland Cathedral New Zealand. She sent it to me undoubtingly to be printed with an appeal we were then making. She has since married and I cannot remember her present name - but perhaps you know her, and at any rate her sister, Lady [[person:680]Harriet ... continue reading