My dear Mrs Gatty, In haste, with all the proofs on my hands, and going out to tea - here are the sonnets - I left out the first as being holy day, rather than Sunday, and belonging to next year’s series

Please let them go straight to Mozley’s and I should be glad of more for February.

I hope you are not overwhelmed with M. Macé in his second volume, I am sure the work must be ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Elder, In some inexplicable way your sonnet for the collect for the Annunciation has disappeared. Could you—if you have a copy—be so kind as to send it by the next post—direct to

Messrs. Mozley Friar’s Gate Derby,

as they are leaving a gap for it. How it was missed between us I cannot guess. I have all the others, quite safe up to June 29th. I hope you will excuse the blunder, and that it will ... continue reading

Dear Miss Palmer

I hope Lady Laura Hampton will not mind waiting a fortnight or so, for I am as you see in Devonshire and I can hardly manage to look at them till I come home, where they are waiting for me. I have however had a series of poems on the Collects in the Monthly Packet, and I hardly know how I could begin another.

I came here yesterday and found Mildred pretty well, but ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Elder,

In some inexplicable way your sonnet for the collect for the Annunciation has disappeared. Could you—if you have a copy—be so kind as to send it by the next post—direct to

Messrs. Mozley Friar’s Gate Derby,

as they are leaving a gap for it. How it was missed between us I cannot guess. I have all the others, quite safe up to June 29th. I hope you will excuse the blunder, and that it will ... continue reading