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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
April 4 th [1876?]

My dear Christabel

Pretty well all I could pick up about those four Portuguese brothers is in a cameo. They must have been splendid people particularly Enrique and they had a curious resemblance to their first cousins - Henry IV’s sons – You know ‘The Constant Prince’ is the name of a play of Calderon’s about him but I don’t think that would help you much. There is a translation either by Abp Trench ... continue reading

To Alexander Macmillan
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Novr 22nd 1877

My dear Mr Macmillan

What I have by me in the way of authorities are the Universal History Lady Calcott’s in English and in Spanish a life of the Cid - Perez de Hyta (whence Washington Irving took his material, but which is only romance) and old Madiema - who is alarming - as he hardly ever has a paragraph, and when he does put a date, does not use figures!

I have picked out a ... continue reading

To Jemima Blackburn
Otterbourn
Febry 18th [1854]
My dear Mrs Blackburn This is to acknowledge the Thumbery and thank you. I will not say anything about him because I have time neither to read nor to think about him this morning, but I am very glad you hold to the spider, it seems to me immoral to alter the end of a recognised story. What do you think of burying him under an Eyebright, and rose-cutting bees might make his shroud, if ... continue reading