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To Ann Maria Carter Smith
Elderfield, Otterbourne, Winchester.
March 31st 1864

My dear Miss Smith I did not write yesterday as I had to go to Winchester, and besides my sister in law had not quite finished reading the M S. The part about Horace’s marriage I do like, and the softening, but I am very sorry you adhere to the early part - especially his father’s repeated wishes for his death. If you could only hear the horror of my mother and my sister in law ... continue reading

To Anne Elizabeth Mary Anderson Morshead
Elderfield
October 8, 1869.
My dear Mary It seems as if all of the letters one wrote to you began with sorrow, for now six weeks nearly after that great blow at Puslinch, it still seems as if it had but first happened. I thought of you at once, for I think you were one who very much loved and looked up to her, and to whom she had put out a great deal of her power of sympathy, as ... continue reading
To Arthur Duke Coleridge
Elderfield Otterbourne
Decr 27th 1897

My dear Cousin Arthur Charlotte F Yonge tells me that you are anxious to know what I think of your daughter’s book. Of course I looked it up at once in the Swedish history which, equally of course, was too small to give all the details, though there was quite enough to see that she had full authority for all she said.

The first scene is wonderful, it reminds me nothing so much as that where the ... continue reading