Dear Canon Warburton I will send £1 for dear Bishop Harold Browne’s memorial but I am away now from cheque books. I go home on Saturday however having partly come to hear the history of the wonderful surprises of Aug 11th with which the Moberly’s had much to do.

Mrs Wordsworth is very cheerful, I hope to see her this afternoon

Yours very truly C M Yonge

Dear Madam The best modern prints in point of art are Hoffman’s series, uncoloured, only the Gospels. I have seen a beautiful edition given by the Duchess of Albany to Bishop Harold Browne’s grandchildren. I think they could be had from Williams and Norgate. The only fault is a certain weakness in the Divine face. There is a fairly good series of ‘Sunday Picture books’ - each little book /6 -drawn by André edited by Rev ... continue reading

J.F.O. slept here last night to assist at the opening of Mr. Randall's church at Clifton, to which we have been this morning. The Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Moberly, preached most beautifully about the Shadow and the Image. Mr. Skinner is also here for it. . . Those who stayed for the luncheon are full of enthusiasm, and say it was most successful, and that the two Bishops spoke ... continue reading

My dear Mr Wither

The news of the day is that Lady Chichester is to be doubly Lady Chichester She marries Sir Arthur Chichester, a widower over 60, whose estate joins on to Arlington

He joins her at Arlington and his two unmarried daughters remain in possession. One of his daughters is Mrs Chichester so they have a small choice of names. Mrs Johnstone’s two pretty little boys have begun to come to Church

I suppose the archbishop ... 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

My dear Bella

Gertrude begs me to write and enquire how Mr Walpole is. I am afraid it takes a long time to recover from anything so exhausting as nose bleeding. Our Bishop however seems quite to have done so - he has got happily through this time of hard work at the Diocesan Conference We had a very interesting meeting afterwards at the Deanery about Women’s Work in the Diocese - ... continue reading