My dear Miss Smith,

I have been so much taken up that I could not answer your letter sooner, and thank you for the way you have taken it. I am amused at the ordeal you are undergoing. I never met with anything like it, except once, when going with a cousin to luncheon with a connection of hers, she was addressed with ‘Anne, why could you have lent us Abbeychurch. Those games! And that mother!’ ... continue reading

My dear Miss Smith

Thanks many - not that I meant to be paid when I mentioned it only to avoid the loss of MSS - I shall be very glad to have them as they are ready, and if you write with them, I will not answer without occasion. I believe an odd number of stamps is always wrong - but 4 will carry almost anything one wants to send. You are right that one ... continue reading

My dear Miss Ingelow This is Mr Stone’s answer about the knight of Intercession. It seems to be one of the legends that evades all search. How would it be to send a question to Notes and Queries?

I have been wishing to tell you that the last sermon that I heard Mr Keble preach, a year and half ago, - one on the anniversary of his Church Consecration, he brought in a sentence about the ... continue reading