Dear Madam,

I am sorry to have kept you waiting so long for an answer about Lady Beatrix, but first I was unhinged by a long influenza, and then a great Sorrow has engrossed me, and left me little time for letter writing.

I like the journal very much in its gentle tone_

I only think in revising it, it will need a little condensing - and one or two things struck me. I do not think Scots ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor Emily and I have been working away to make a question We suppose our young man to be a blacksmith or bricklayer as he earns such good wages. But if there is anything impossible or foolish or if you think it well to make it either more or less complicated, please to correct it

Supposing a young man to earn two and sixpence per day except Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday, and ... continue reading

My dear Miss Dampier I must tell you and your sister how sincerely I grieve for you. I think the bereavement of the last parent is the sorrow that an unmarried woman always feels most, it seems so entirely to end the sense of being a child at home to be thought for and cared for, and to leave one so desolate, without shelter from the world.

I suppose it is that having been trained ... continue reading

My dear Mrs Buston

We shall be very glad to see you and Miss Dampier at 3 o’clock on Wednesday - I shall have to leave you at 4, as it is the day of the G F S quarterly meeting, when the girls pay in their money - and I read to them

Yours sincerely C M Yonge

My dear Mary

Gertrude has brightened up this week but she had an embarras de richesses on Wednesday for Jane Harper, two children, Bella Heathcote Mrs Buston and Emily Dampier all came. She could not see the last two but they are coming on Wednesday afternoon to see her.

We had 104 communicants today - 50 early and 54 late. Frances was neuralgic and could not come out so Maurice was alone. George has grown ... continue reading

My dear Miss Dampier

So many thanks from Gertrude doubly!

You will like to hear that Philip and Margaret Buston walked over here yesterday with some Grapes for Gertrude. They gave a very good account of their mother. There is no house to be had at Twyford, so they are looking for one at Winchester which is wiser, I do not think settling in one’s former parish is ever advisable

Poor Mrs Monroe does not find it ... continue reading

My dear Miss Dampier Do you think you and your sister could manage to come and spend an evening here while Gertrude Walter is staying with me? I do not ask you to dinner because she cannot go down to it and would have much more pleasure if you would drink tea with us – any evening except Saturday the 22nd or Monday or Tuesday the 24th and 25th would suit us, if you will choose ... continue reading