My dear Mary

Here is the double birthday just over, which one never fails to recollect. To Katharine’s question I say, but I do not know if it will approve itself to her that my best girls would answer that the New Covenant was the Baptismal One, and they would reply to the question What are the terms? with the two first answers in the Catechism. I suppose – as St Paul was writing ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Barrett Lennard

I am afraid I do not know any one at Cambridge well enough to write about one whom I do not personally know. I do not think second hand recommendations have much effect people have so many first hand. In fact I only slightly know two people there. I was there some twelve or fourteen years ago and like you, was edified by the admiration of ‘Our ... continue reading

Dear Otterbourne Readers,

All I can give you this time to read is a little account of some of my doings while I have been away from home. I began with a visit of two days to the good Bishop of Bedford, who though bearing that title has really been an assistant to the Bishop of London, till now, when he is gone to the new see of Wakefield, in Yorkshire. One of the ... continue reading

I put the scholars first because the connection began with so many as scholars. As I looked round I could see among the party two (at least) who had been my mother’s scholars when she first began her Sunday class in what is now Miss Missellbrook’s kitchen, about sixty five years ago. I can just remember sitting by her there, when you used to ... continue reading