Dear Madam Your suggestions are very kind and I am much obliged for them, but with regard to proposing subjects for home lessons, these would bring ‘Mothers in Council’ into being a book read in the schoolroom, and this we decidedly wish to avoid, as there is much more liberty in writing counsels about children or young people if they are not supposed to read them.

Where are the leaflets against indulgence in sweets? I had not ... continue reading