Dear Miss Medhurst Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline, she is an affectionate girl and has a refinement about her that makes her pleasant to have to do with. Her brother with whom she lives was one of the College choristers at Winchester and had a good education there, so I hope she is in good hands, but a little notice and sympathy will be a great help in the great plunge it must ... continue reading

My dear Miss Medhurst

It is ungrateful not to have thanked you sooner but your letter came while I was from home and I have since been working through the accumulation of things that had arisen on me

What a good photograph yours is. I am sure they are much improved since there was only a little face on the top of a great crinoline. I am afraid the Infirmaries in many places - as well as ... continue reading

My dear Miss Medhurst

I believe Emmelines engagement is an excellent one in every way except for the unfortunate matter of the man being a dissenter

He seems to be a very good man, a clerk, and of a station rather above, much given to good works. He has had to provide for a large family of brothers and sisters and is waiting to marry till they are off his hands. I don’t think one can object, ... continue reading

Dear Miss Medhurst,

Thank you for your kindness to Emmeline. I believe she is coming down here for a month to recruit if her brother can spare her. I hope it is only want of love, but her aunt is anxious because loss of voice was the beginning of illness with another aunt - a school mistress - who went into a decline and the thought of whom prevented us from pressing Emmeline to be ... continue reading