My dear Mrs Elgie There is a poor old surgeon of 80 for whom I have been voting for [sic]. If he is no more I will vote for Annie Reynolds as I always think Winchester has the first claim

Caroline Ray, Charles’s eldest sister, who has spent her life in nursing invalid old gentlemen, and been well paid, takes Price’s shop, as soon as his nephew can sell off the remains

Yours affly C M Yonge