My dear Percy

The houses I should prefer for a boy are

the Revd J H DuBoulay’s Southgate Hill or

the Revd J T Bramston’s Culvers’ Close

I have a weakness for a clergyman’s house, and besides, I think so highly of both the men and their wives - Mrs DuBoulay as I daresay you know was Alice Cornish sister to the Bishop of Madagascar. Both she and Mrs Bramston are very nice about the boys. Mrs Bramston’s father is [[person:2342]Archdeacon ... continue reading

My dear Frances

All I know about Juliana Coningsby is in the Cameo of December 1886. I got it out of Carte’s history also Knights, and they both took it from the King’s own account which Pepys wrote down at the time. The adventures were really more curious than Jane Lane’s and I have always wondered whether there were anything not told which prevented them from being made more of. But Carte is too old ... continue reading