My dear Miss Jacob, I have the Récit d’une Soeur, and if you like to read it, I could leave it, either at your house in the Close, at Jacob & Johnsons or any other convenient house of call at Winchester. It is a beautiful book - the family are so good and charming, though not equal in intellect or poetry to the Guérins. The great matter in reading it is not to judge it ... continue reading

My dear Edith Having always so heard and thought of you it seems the more natural. I was sending a parcel to Dr Moberly’s, and so put yours with it. Alas - what shall we do when it is Dr Moberly’s no longer-! You will find, shut into the book a paraphrase of some lines in German that Alexandrine wrote when she sold her pearl necklace - they were written out from the Month. I mention ... continue reading