My dear Christabel I am very sorry this sad check has fallen on all the bright hopes. I remember Mrs Keble saying, when my brother lost his first, how often it happens that the first fruits of a family are thus consecrated and taken, and become in time a happy remembrance. May has been hoping that Minny’s baby may come today on its great grandfather’s birthday, I wonder if it will. Poor Katie Lloyd is at Ramsgate, ... continue reading