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My dear Mary How nice to have two letters from you together! You are alone, as I am for a fortnight as Helen comes on the 30th, and Lottie has just left me, but I am not sorry for a little quiet time. Thank you for letting me see those letters, I think almost Grandmamma’s last words to Dr Harris were ‘Don’t let Fanny be in a scene not fit for her,’ and we ... continue reading
My dear Anne, As Sir William Heathcote is coming here this evening I take this opportunity of writing to you, I hope, to thank you beforehand for the letter I am to expect on Saturday. I think your Coronation Festival must have been most splendid, especially the peacocks’ feathers. You must have wanted Duke to help you arrange it all, I think. I know he always used to be famous for arrangements. ... continue reading
My dear Mary I hope this mild day is doing every thing for your father’s cure, I wish more for his own sake than mine that he could have been here, but the necessity of allowing half the county to shew their respect made it much more trying to the family.
I seem to be out on a visit, and I do not know how I shall get on when we resume our old habits. Anne ... continue reading
Dear Old Friends, - Will all of you who wish for the dole come to me before eleven o 'clock, and not send by children. Last year many boys came, who, I am sure were not sent by their mothers, and only heard of sixpences given. I should be very sorry to give up the dole that my grandmother found established eighty years ago, but the whole condition of the parish has ... continue reading
My dear Mrs Ritchie I am impelled to write to you by your Introduction to Miss Mitford’s Our Village which delights me much. I too have driven through Three Mile Cross and have been much disappointed except that I saw the blessing of wearing rose coloured spectacles I remember it used to be said that Miss Mitford complimented all the neighbouring young ladies but when I read her life I saw that her admiration was ... continue reading
My dear Miss Smith
I am sorry to say your story, even with a little abridging, comes to 63 pp, and as that is nearly a quarter of the Christmas no. I had to give it up with another which I liked almost as well, but was 53 pp, so I am afraid I must keep it waiting for the end of Paul and Virginia and put it into the regular M P. I like your ... continue reading
My dear Miss Ingelow
Your letter has just come to me here in the midst of the steep hills and narrow valleys of North Devon. I think I must have been 2 years old when I saw the baby in the blue shawl, as my birthday is in August, and we generally went into Devon in the autumn. I do not think I taught myself to read, as I was then an only child much looked ... continue reading