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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 James Edwards Sewell
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 25th 1878

My dear Mr Warden

Thank you much for your kind reply. I hope to appear with my maid by the train that reaches Oxford at 4.25, when I think I arrive just in time for chapel. I have just got a card for Mrs Talbot’s evening party that night.

I am afraid I cannot stay after Saturday as I am engaged to spend Sunday at the Deanery at St Pauls.

With all thanks and kind regards to ... continue reading