My dear Miss Wilford

Yesterday was the Ampfield anniversary of the consecration of the Church and I took a grand holiday - including a walk from Ampfield to Hursley with Mr Keble, and so I could not write but we have read your Seven Campbells and like them very much. I suspect boys would believe in them more if John Lackland always went by his English name.

I do not think a Scottish minister stands on the ... continue reading

My dear Miss Yonge,

I leave my wife to answer the part of your letter which concerns her.

Yes: I had read your memoirs of Madame Lamourous; and our Sisters have just been reading it at meal time in the Refectory. But I am bound to tell you that I asked our Mother to mark out other observations of yours about the faith &c of the subject of your memoirs: which, to tell you the truth, I ... continue reading