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To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Jany 23d [1877]

My dear Christabel

I should like of all things to have the dear Fernando, but alas! I don’t see a scrap of room for him before Christmas Orina will last till the summer Our Young ladies till Christmas, Magnum Bonum 2 years - (I fear) Then Miss R N Carey begins a long story in July, and I can't see a chink to put any thing in till Our Young Ladies are ... continue reading

To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 17th 1878

My dear Christabel

The Packet will be happy to take Cherry cut down when Heriot’s Choice is over. I am afraid it will last a long time – for I never can succeed in getting in two chapters of Heriot’s Choice- Our pupil teachers have had a paper sent in from Salisbury training college for religious examination, saying 2nd class – Alice Misselbrook 8, Harriet Godwin 18, but whether this means no from the ... continue reading

To Christabel Rose Coleridge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
Sept 23 rd 1878
My dear Christabel I do not think I have ever answered you about Cherry, but I have had my cousin Duke Yonge here, and then a fierce Saturday of harvest decorations which raged from morn till dewy eve and by means of bulrushes, berries wheat, and those arching grasses at whose gathering I think you assisted turned out well. I begin to think now that I did write, but I cant make sure, and so I ... continue reading