My dear Miss Palmer I am delighted with both your papers, I did not write before as I wanted to read them aloud to my invalid friend, and we enjoyed them very much. I did not find out that the thundering Legion was coming till the clouds were at the Carpathian mountains.

Una and her knight I like very much too and shall be glad to keep them and put them in I do not see ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer I enclose the order. I wrote Hants after Sep upon the paper, so I hope they made it out to the right one It will be a great pleasure to me to come to Blackmoor [erasure] Thank Lady Selborne for her kind invitation.

What would suit me best would be to come when I leave Crookham, on the 3d or 4th of September, as then I could take the train at Alton and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer I waited to write to you till I had seen my way through the MSS, and I now see that Itys will come the first as a classical statement of the question

If there is a frontispiece I want it to be from him. I am not sure however whether you had a new statue in your eye or not. Will you let me know if you had

There is about 1/10 due to ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer The printer has put your name in full upon this proof - but if you do not wish it to appear, you had better scratch it out, though of course the Packet would be glad to have the story owned.

I am glad it did not come while you were occupied with the wedding bustle, they like to put the Christmas number in hand a long time in advance. I am now at ... continue reading

My dear Miss Palmer Here is Itys upon his copperplate. As far as I can judge he seems to me good though I would rather have had him standing - he is certainly free from Pan’s legs. You had better return him direct to Mr Cowie, 6 Paternoster Row; E C.

I am ashamed to find that my night cap stayed behind me - thank you for sending it to me - also the heath - of ... continue reading

My dear Miss Barter,

I should think such a school as Mr Holland proposes would be a very good and useful thing. I do not see how I can help about it though I know so few people in London and I do not think there is anything for me to write about Mr Holland further than to wish him success, so I will ask you to do so for me.

I saw Alice Moberly last ... 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

My dear Mrs Latimer

Thank you very much for your pleasant Shakespeare book.

I have read the first three divisions of it and enjoyed it once [?]. You should suggest to your audience the series of Shakespeare Tableaux, which I once saw. They were got up by Lady Laura Ridding wife to the bishop of Southwell, who was then headmaster of Winchester college. She assigned one play to each of a set of different families and ... continue reading

Dear Sir The number of Mothers in Council must, I think have been sent by Mrs Sumner to whom I will send on one of your papers, but I think she is absent from Winchester just now, as the illness of the Bishop of Winchester throws much work on her husband. There is nothing that she and I are more anxious about than Christian education and we much desire to do all in our power to ... continue reading