My dearest Lizzie- We had found all your names among the 5200 in the wonderful book all bound with daisies down the back, which came as a great surprise, two Moberlys leaving it and Queen Margherita at the door, and then whisking off so that they were not recognised or followed up. However, I have had a few days with them in their home at Salisbury and heard all the ins and outs and how it ... continue reading

My dear Lady Sophia, I am asked to send this card, in case Lord Selborne has a vote disengaged for this poor young man. I hope the Blind are not so plentiful as idiots and incurables from whom there is no peace!

I suppose you have Dr Pusey’s life, it must be wonderfully interesting but it has not yet come in my way. It seems to fill up the complement of the other lives - I remember ... continue reading

Dear Miss Palmer

I hope Lady Laura Hampton will not mind waiting a fortnight or so, for I am as you see in Devonshire and I can hardly manage to look at them till I come home, where they are waiting for me. I have however had a series of poems on the Collects in the Monthly Packet, and I hardly know how I could begin another.

I came here yesterday and found Mildred pretty well, but ... continue reading

My dear Lady Sophia

Pray tell Sir Arthur Gordon that I shall be very grateful for his Christmas papers.

We are preparing for a huge G F S festival at St Cross, and watching the clouds with alarm

Yours sincerely C M Yonge