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There seems so much to do here, and with an old mind like mine, it is difficult to take in fresh impressions.
... continue readingMy dear Augusta It is rather funny that the same post as brought your letter about Lady Blachford’s indignation brought one from an American Correspondent of Gertrude’s saying that she had observed that strict older sisters did generally turn out indulgent Mothers. But I understand it this way. Wilmet had seen that strict laws had not fully answered with Fulbert, Angela or Bernard and the Harewoods were easygoing by nature and also there was ... continue reading
Have you heard the last variety of American Lion hunting – writing to ask for a bit of one’s dress to put into a literary quilt? I actually had such a request, and while I was laughing at it I came on a book of Miss Alcott’s where the dear Jo – after she had become a noted authoress – has the same entreaty made to her.
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