My dear Mary How nice to have two letters from you together! You are alone, as I am for a fortnight as Helen comes on the 30th, and Lottie has just left me, but I am not sorry for a little quiet time. Thank you for letting me see those letters, I think almost Grandmamma’s last words to Dr Harris were ‘Don’t let Fanny be in a scene not fit for her,’ and we ... continue reading

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 Mary I have just heard from Jane Moore. She is at Ramsgate, where her husband has been sent to get over an attack of bronchitis from 7 hours work at Aldershot! She and I have had a great blow in the sudden loss of Lady Susan Blunt. You know she was the General’s cousin, and the daughter of my mother’s old friend, Lady Nelson We always so enjoyed meeting ... 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

Dear Mr Humbert, I have just received a note from Lady Susanna Blunt asking me the day and time of the opening of St Cross, and whether tickets will be necessary for admission to the services. Being unable to be present I had unfortunately destroyed the notice you were so good as to send me, and thus I cannot answer her questions. Would you therefore be kind enough to send one of the papers to her ... 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