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To Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester
July 31, 1899.
My dear Mrs. Mitchell Thank you for your conversation. It reminds me of what I tried to impress on some of the promoters of Lady Margaret Hall, that the Old Colleges began with training for the church the first object, and the secular work a sort of appendage, the Christian training running through. And I tried to shadow it out in that drawing of Geraldine's in the Pillars of the House, of the Christian School of ... continue reading
To the Reverend Edward Stuart Talbot
[1875?]
[To the Reverend Edward Stuart Talbot]

I do not think any scheme succeeds that has not a decided religious object, and in my mind the real difficulty is that this plan seems to be Lectures plus Church, not like the original conception of a College, education primarily for the direct service of religion to which other students were admitted. If it is to be merely a boarding house on good principles where young ladies may ... continue reading

To Mary Yonge
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
May 1st 1876

My dear Mary

A great deal seems to have happened since I wrote to you last, but before I tell you about Oxford, I must come to what is uppermost in my mind, about Julian’s affairs. He fully expected a compromise to have been made which would not have brought such difficulty, but that has failed, and there is the whole debt of the company, about £12,000 come upon the 5 directors – of whom ... continue reading