Dear Miss Christie, I think I must lend you my Fairy Bower. It was written, as you see, nearly sixty years ago, before the Oxford Movement had become a visible fact, by Mrs. Thomas Mozley, while her husband was vicar of Cholderton. She was Harriet Newman, and though the little book is quite in children's form, it was such as none but a Newman could write.

A little girl, Grace Leslie, goes with her widow ... continue reading

My dear Miss Blackburne

Thank you for the sight of this. I have sent the review on to Mr Shorthouse. That Glasgow paper must have clever people belonging to it, for they always make notices to the purpose

I have sent the proof to the printers, and hope it will get in this next April number.

It is very interesting to see what Mr Shorthouse likes as his interpretation Artistically I think it was a great ... continue reading

Here are two proofs of your conversation, which, by-the-by, must be headed 'A Conversation on Books.' It will not go in this time, so you will have plenty of opportunity to do what you please with it. A conversation on Archbishop Trench's book must precede it, to give the old man a chance of hearing it, as it is by a young relation of his own - young, I ... continue reading