My dear Marianne Your letter has so made me overflow that in spite of Sunday evening I cannot help beginning to write after finishing my task of the 7th Command[ment]. You see one part is founded on a saying come down to me, I don't know how, 'that nice men are men of nasty ideas.' I don't know how far all this ought to be administered, or whether innocence should be let alone, innocence of thought ... continue reading

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