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My dear Mrs Johns, Would you please be so kind as to send this note on to Miss Keary, as I do not know her direction. I have been reproaching myself with forgetting to thank you for lending us the Early Egyptian history which we have just finished and hope to return at the first opportunity. It is delightfully written and it is wonderful how she carries us through such an unpromising period by her imaginative ... continue reading
My dear Mr Macmillan,
Thank you for Mr Trevelyan’s Cawnpore, which will I am sure be terribly engrossing reading.
I waited to write both because I was trying to satisfy myself with the beginning of Moses, and because I wanted to see what the London Library would send me. And the latter is just at present - Nothing, so I should be very much obliged if you would lend me Stanley’s Sermons in Palestine and Thomson’s and ... continue reading
Dear Mr Craik
I should like to find out how much the lady cares who urged me to write before answering. Whether I will go on with this personal history, and whether time is still important, for it was the hurry that oppressed me.
The copyright of Householders and Thoughts on Pictures is mine.
I quite see that all ought not to come too much together, but I do think Householders is worth the having soon, for children ... continue reading