My dear Lord Nelson Thank you very heartily for your notes. It is very pleasant to see how much one’s contemporaries minds are to one’s own. I think all of that training in experience and principle that we have had must feel the expedience of submission in what is not a vital point, if a stand is to be made on what is important. Nor do I see, what the enemy aver, that yielding in these ... continue reading

My dear Lord Nelson I have been thinking of writing to you ever since I saw this grievous loss in the paper, and Easter eve seems to bear it the more in upon me, for surely no one can be more at peace in the home consecrated by this day than that gentle dutiful spirit. I remember her ever since she was a little thing of four or five years old in her striped frock, and ... continue reading

Dearest Jay

If you would write to me once a fortnight how delightful it would be for we do let each other drop fearfully, and as long as my poor Gertrude is in her present state I can not go from home unles I can leave Mary Woollcombe here. She is here now, finishing a fortnights stay, during which I have been able to get a few days with the Moberlys. Near as they ... continue reading