My dear Mrs Packe I am sure that the correspondence would be most interesting and suggestive, only I am not quite sure in what way you thought of letting it appear, whether as the actual letters abridged or as a digest of them, or to shew a selection to anyone who might be writing an account of the times. They would reflect the feeling of the early times surprisingly to many, and I think ... continue reading

Dear Mrs Packe I hope the weather will remain fine to the end of this sad day. I shall think of you in the lower end of the Church yard beside the grave of that life long friend. The loss to you must be unspeakable. You and your Sister were with with [sic] her as very little girls, younger than your children are now the first time I ever was at Testwood. ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Packe Thank you for the sight of the letters, it looks so like the old old times. And certainly those were days when there was no ‘looking over the wall’ in contrast to these when one may ‘steal a horse’ Do you know what has become of that window? Perhaps you have it I suppose the poor old Bishop was in a regular panic, assisted by his Grace’s wife. ... continue reading