My dear Mr Yonge, Such an outpouring as your letter which I had last evening was, gives me great pleasure, and I hope you will continue to write to me when you feel inclined. What I most dread is the want of companionship for Charlotte She had been used all her life to discuss with, and refer to her Father everything that pleased and interested her, and these happy evening when he came hope ... continue reading

My dear Ellie I am delighted to hear of the Medallion!

Have you seen Sir Herbert Maxwell’s book of the months-? He disbelieved the rod and someone ought to write to him. He watched Mullins - and fancied he had discovered the places before. But Lady Crawley, the mother of Mrs William Gibbs, who had the power only in that generation of the family laughed at it as imagination, and I believe Mrs Gibbs inherited it, but ... continue reading

My dear Miss Dampier

So many thanks from Gertrude doubly!

You will like to hear that Philip and Margaret Buston walked over here yesterday with some Grapes for Gertrude. They gave a very good account of their mother. There is no house to be had at Twyford, so they are looking for one at Winchester which is wiser, I do not think settling in one’s former parish is ever advisable

Poor Mrs Monroe does not find it ... continue reading