Dear Mr Innes

The copies to Canon Warburton were for presentation to the Central libraries of our Diocesan Society for Higher Religious Education.

I imagine that half a sheet will be quite enough, giving me 4 pages besides those for index and title which I always grudge but I cannot tell till I get the list of make up.

I see Chapman and Hall’s M S will not do. I much dislike stories in dialect and indeed I ... continue reading

My dear Canon Warburton

‘Foundations of the Creed’ by the Bishop of Carlisle has just been mentioned to me in a letter as a particularly good book for the present time. Perhaps someone else has set it down, but it is better to run the risk of mentioning what is known than to leave it out.

That Pearl story haunts me. I think I see how it may make a very nice little romance after incubation!

Yours ... continue reading

My dear C C If I were to be dissected while I am alive, I think you would do it tenderly, but indeed I have always shrunk from seeing the lives of living people and my whole old fashioned nature revolts at the idea partly personally, and partly because I know how those who are gone would feel about it, so indeed I do not think it is possible to my feelings and I hope ... continue reading

My dear C C We cannot find your porcupine, I think he must be shut up in a MS. Susan, the cook informed me yesterday that she is going to marry in July, rather frantic for she can only get through easy work here with Bessie’s help however I am glad to be spared the break down that there will be- and Bessie has a sister who will probably come so all will most ... continue reading