My dear Mrs Mercier I tried to get your questions answered by sending them to Miss Bramston, the Dean’s daughter, but unluckily female education at Winchester received a blow when Mr & Mrs Awdry went to Hurstpierpoint - and Mrs Johns, the only other lady who really cared, fell ill. The getting lecturers down needs some energy and there is no one to do it now.

I send you Miss Bramston’s note and that from [[person:1902]Mrs ... continue reading

My dear Percy

The houses I should prefer for a boy are

the Revd J H DuBoulay’s Southgate Hill or

the Revd J T Bramston’s Culvers’ Close

I have a weakness for a clergyman’s house, and besides, I think so highly of both the men and their wives - Mrs DuBoulay as I daresay you know was Alice Cornish sister to the Bishop of Madagascar. Both she and Mrs Bramston are very nice about the boys. Mrs Bramston’s father is [[person:2342]Archdeacon ... continue reading

My dear Christabel

I suppose you are beginning daily life again. When in some ways it is so hard When it feels as if there were so few in the house, and yet when people talk it gets into a whirl and one does not care about it, and oh! the letters that seem as if they would never get themselves written. I suppose you stay where you are and in that way are much ... continue reading